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Professor Huxley has sought to invalidate such inferences,"^ 
first by asserting, what is of course perfectly true, that intel- 
lectual power (as we daily experience it) depends not on the 
development of the brain alone, but also on that of ‘‘the 
organs of the senses and of the motor apparatuses.” But 
surely to this we may reply that in these respects no one pre- 
tends even that there is much difference between man and Apes. 
Secondly, Professor Huxley objects that the cerebral differ- 
ences may be of so minute a character as to have escaped ob- 
servation, and he compares the brains of Man and an Ape with 
two watches, one of which will, and the other will not, keep 
accurate time. He exclaims, “ A hair in the balance-wheel, 
a little rust on a pinion, a bend in a tooth of the escapement, 
a something so slight that only the practised eye of the 
watchmaker can discover it, may be the source of all the dif- 
ference.” 
It would be, however, to say the least, somewhat singular to 
attribute to hypothetical and confessedly minute differences 
effects which as yet we have not seen to accompany or be pro- 
duced by certainly present and confessedly considerable differ- 
ences which we have seen. 
With how much force then does not the comparative 
anatomy of the present day re-echo the truth long ago pro- 
claimed by Buffon,t that material structure and physical forces 
can never alone account for the presence of mind. 
Speaking of the Ape, the most Man-like as to brain, he 
says : — 
“II ne pense pas: y a t-il une preuve plus evidente que 
la matiere seule, quoique parfaitement organisee, ne pent 
produire ni la pensee, ni la parole qui en est la signe, a 
moins qu’elle ne soit animee par un principe superieur ? ” 
In passing from the brain to the organs of sense, it may be 
Remarked that the ear of the G-orilla is more human than that 
of any other Primate, in that it has a rudimentary lobule — that 
is to say, a rudiment of that soft depending portion into which 
the “ ear-ring ” 'is inserted. 
The nose, on the contrary, exhibits a prominence slightly 
approximating to that of Man, not in the Grorilla but in one of 
the Gfibbons, namely the Hoolock. 
The projection of Man’s nose is, however, exceeded by that 
of a long-tailed Bornean Ape, called the Proboscis Monkey on 
account of the length of its nasal organ. It belongs to the 
genus Semnopithecus. Ho other species of that genus exhibits 
any approximation to a similar nasal elongation. 
* “ Man’s Place in Nature,” p. 102, note, 
f “Hist. Nat.,”t. xiv. p. 61, 1766. 
