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a difference, so there are others who will recognise 

 an identity without a resemblance. A tendency to 

 this latter turn of mind seems to manifest itself when 

 it is contended by Evolutionists that the higher apes 

 are more closely allied to man than they are to the 

 lower members of their own order. That the orang, 

 chimpanzee, gibbon, and gorilla have a counterfeit 

 presentment of the human form is true, but still in 

 every single visible character they are unmistakably 

 brutes ; whilst as regards internal quality, they exhibit 

 not the most distant approach to man. Nay, they 

 cannot even be said to excel many mammals of a 

 rank below that of the order to which they are 

 referred in zoological classifications. 



The numerous points of structure in the human 

 body which can be traced as homologous with points 

 of structure in the bodies of the lower animals, have 

 all been long recognised as evidences that man and 

 the lower animals have been constructed according 1 to 

 one common plan ; but, let me repeat, they afford no 

 proof that man has descended from apes. 



Considering, as before observed, the general 

 conditions of animal life in this world, and consider- 

 ing the perfection of every creature after its kind and 

 in its own sphere of life, we cannot conceive a reason 

 why organisation should have been different from 

 what we find it to be in man, or in any other animal, 

 nor any reason to infer from the similarity of organisa- 

 tion which prevails among animals that the higher 

 must have been evolved from the lower — that man 



