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the hallux is not opposable. This is not a strong 

 character," etc. 



If this is true, I suggest that a slight surgical oper- 

 ation will convert gorilla into man, and then he can 

 be put on the high-road to civilization. When his 

 big toe is made to grow in human fashion, he will, of 

 necessity, abandon his arboreal habits, and he can be 

 kept within bounds by his teachers. 



But Huxley claimed that the structural differences 

 between man and apes were many and great, instead 

 of being confined to some little difference between 

 the big toes. 



He says: " I find, in fact, that those who endeavor 

 to teach what nature so clearly shows in this matter, 

 are liable to have their opinions misrepresented and 

 their phraseology garbled until they seem to say that 

 the structural differences between man and even the 

 highest apes are small and insignificant. Let me take 

 this opportunity then of distinctly asserting, on the 

 contrary, that they are great and significant; that 

 every bone of a Gorilla bears marks by which it 

 might be distinguished from the corresponding bone 

 of a man; and that, in the present creation, at any 

 rate, no intermediate link bridges over the gap be- 

 tween Homo and Troglodytes." * 



Cope has, in this instance, saved his imagination 

 the slight trouble of bridging the chasm between man 

 and the apes by denying its existence, while Huxley, 

 equally distinguished as a comparative anatomist, 

 emphasizes its existence. 



Again, the author says: " It is then highly prob- 

 able that Homo is descended from some form of the 

 Anthropomorpha now extinct, and probably unknown 

 at present, although we do not yet know all the char- 

 acters of some extinct supposed Simiidte, of which 

 * Cyclopedia of Science', Vol. 2, p. 232, 



