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 . between the human foot and theanalagous organ of the simiaa, than between the latter and thehind foot of any unquiculate animal, as the squirrel or thedormouse. After all, it is upon modifications of one great type of struc-ture that all the orders among the mammalia are founded; 12 ANTHROPOLOGY. and the characters of the hands and of the feet of man—regardbeing had to the consequences involved by their modifications,and to the increas
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 . between the human foot and theanalagous organ of the simiaa, than between the latter and thehind foot of any unquiculate animal, as the squirrel or thedormouse. After all, it is upon modifications of one great type of struc-ture that all the orders among the mammalia are founded; 12 ANTHROPOLOGY. and the characters of the hands and of the feet of man—regardbeing had to the consequences involved by their modifications,and to the increase of value attached to even the slighter va-riations of structure, as Ave ascend the scale—are, of them-selves, sufficient to establish mans distinctive situation, as therepresentative of an order: for man is the only true bipedamong terrestrial mammalia. Let other ? structural peculiarities of the human frame benow compared with those of the nearest anthropomorphous si-mia?. Comparative views of the skulls of the European and thenegro (figs. 1, 2), on the one hand, and of the chimpanzeeand ourang (figs. 3, 4), on the other, are here presented, in. No. 1.—European. No. 2.—Xesrro.
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