EVIDENCE AS TO MAN'S PLACE IN NATURE

by Thomas H. Huxley




1863

[entire page is illustration with caption as follows]

Skeletons of the
GIBBON. ORANG. CHIMPANZEE. GORILLA. MAN.
'Photographically reduced from Diagrams of the natural size (except
that of the Gibbon, which was twice as large as nature), drawn by
Mr. Waterhouse Hawkins from specimens in the Museum of the Royal
College of Surgeons.



ON THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE
MAN-LIKE APES

Ancient traditions, when tested by the severe processes of modern
investigation, commonly enough fade away into mere dreams: but it is
singular how often the dream turns out to have been a half-waking one,
presaging a reality. Ovid foreshadowed the discoveries of the
geologist: the Atlantis was an imagination, but Columbus found a western
world: and though the quaint forms of Centaurs and Satyrs have an
existence only in the realms of art, creatures approaching man more