290 ANTHROPOID APES. 



CHAPTER YIII. 



A SUMMAEY, TOGETHER WITH SOME FURTHER CON- 

 SIDERATIONS OF THE ANTHROPOMORPHISM OP 

 THE GORILLA, CHIMPANZEE, ORANG, AND GIBBON. 



Huxley's statement, that the lowest apes are further 

 removed from the highest apes than the latter are 

 from men, is, according to my experience, still per- 

 fectly valid. It cannot be denied that the highest 

 order of the animal world is closely connected with 

 the highest created being. 



In the third chapter I have sought to show in 

 what way the pithecoid characteristics of men may 

 be proved. From the latter chapters, also, much 

 may be learned with respect to the anthropoid 

 characteristics of anthropoids. The external form 

 first provokes the comparison. There is much in 

 the bodily structure which spans the apparent 

 chasm between men and apes, and this is evident 

 to the simplest understanding. The head, and the 

 general form of the body, especially in young male 

 and female gorillas, chimpanzees, and orangs, and 

 even in gibbons, if we exclude the length of their 



