Regarded
systematically, the cerebral differences of man and apes are not of more
than generic value; his Family distinction resting chiefly on his
dentition, his pelvis, and his lower limbs.
[Footnote] * I say 'help' to furnish: for I by no means
believe that it was any original difference of cerebral
quality, or quantity which caused that divergence between
the human and the pithecoid stirpes, which has ended in the
present enormous gulf between them. It is no doubt
perfectly true, in a certain sense, that all difference of
function is a result of difference of structure; or, in
other words, of difference in the combination of the
primary molecular forces of living substance; and, starting
from this undeniable axiom, objectors occasionally, and
with much seeming plausibility, argue that the vast
intellectual chasm between the Ape and Man implies a
corresponding structural chasm in the organs of the
intellectual functions; so that, it is said, the
non-discovery of such vast differences proves, not that
they are absent, but that Science is incompetent to detect
them.
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