Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature by Thomas Henry Huxley
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kind with a comparatively small face, large facial angle, and peculiar
note, resembling "Kooloo." As the Orang shelters itself with a rough coverlet of leaves, and the common Chimpanzee, according to that eminently trustworthy observer Dr. Savage, makes a sound like "Whoo-whoo,"--the grounds of the summary repudiation with which M. Du Chaillu's statements on these matters have been met are not obvious. If I have abstained from quoting M. Du Chaillu's work, then, it is not because I discern any inherent improbability in his assertions respecting the man-like Apes; nor from any wish to throw suspicion on his veracity; but because, in my opinion, so long as his narrative remains in its present state of unexplained and apparently inexplicable confusion, it has no claim to original authority respecting any subject whatsoever. It may be truth, but it is not evidence. |
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