The unity of the human races proved to be the doctrine of Scripture reason and science : with a review of the present position and theory of Professor Agassiz . No. 1.—European. No. 2.— No. 3.—Chimpanzee. No. 4.—Ourang. ANTHROPOLOGY. 13 order that their respective proportions may be the more easilyappreciated, and to show that the differences between the cra-nium of man and of these simiae are not limited merely to thedevelopment of the forehead, the ratio between the face and thecranial cavity, the hiatus between the upper canines and theincisors, the oblique position of the incisors,
The unity of the human races proved to be the doctrine of Scripture reason and science : with a review of the present position and theory of Professor Agassiz . No. 1.—European. No. 2.— No. 3.—Chimpanzee. No. 4.—Ourang. ANTHROPOLOGY. 13 order that their respective proportions may be the more easilyappreciated, and to show that the differences between the cra-nium of man and of these simiae are not limited merely to thedevelopment of the forehead, the ratio between the face and thecranial cavity, the hiatus between the upper canines and theincisors, the oblique position of the incisors, the length of thecanines (though circumstances of great importance), but ex-tend, also, to a variety of other points of structure. It has been reiterated, that the skull of the negro forms anintermediate link between that of the European and of theourang or chimpanzee; and one point of approximation be-tween the former and the latter is said to consist in the situa-tion of the foramen magnum. Now, in the skull of a negro(fig. 2), this foramen differs in position but very little from thatof the well-formed skull of a native of England (fig. 1) ;while the posterior situation of the f
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