[175] In the foregoing paragraphs I have allowed the French author, M. Mangin, to express his opinions in his own language. I must guard myself, however, from being supposed to endorse them as a whole. Between the most intelligent Simiæ and Man a wide gulf exists, which I see no reason for supposing the Ape will ever cross. And I believe that his physical likeness to Man may be satisfactorily referred to that general progressiveness in creation which we may trace from the lowest to the highest types.
[176] Du Chaillu, “Travels and Adventures in Equatorial Africa” (London, 1863).
[177] Du Chaillu, “Travels and Adventures in Equatorial Africa.”
[178] T. Noon Talfourd, “Dramatic Works.”
[179] Arthur Helps, “Spanish Conquest in America.”
[180] Pope, “Poetical Works”—Essay on Man.
[181] Capt. R. F. Burton, “Lake Regions of Equatorial Africa.”
[182] R. W. Emerson. “Essays” (Collected Works, Bell & Daldy, 2 vols.)
[183] This was written in September 1867.
[184] Alfred Maury, “La Terre et l’Homme,” ch. vii.