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 to external, bodily appearance; but man has a higher nature so distinct from and so superior to all animals that he is clearly of an individual family. Some writers of more interior perception have observed this, and, though admitting Evolution in general, have supposed that the Creator, to form man, added to the ape, or to an animal body, those parts which distinguish him as human. Into this view some have been led by the very correct observation that "there is more difference between him (man) and the orang than between the latter and the ground beneath his feet." The assumption that there was added to a lower animal superior or internal parts, and from this man was evolved, is itself a contradiction of the possibility of Evolution, for if such a special act occurred in the final creation of man, why could it not occur at each variation? Evolution as defined and the theory as promulgated by its inventors and advocates, forbid any such infraction. Neither is it reasonable to suppose that the Creator worked by natural laws, evolving species approaching man, that the law failed Him, and that He then resorted to a special act of adaptation. If man is as high above the orang as the orang is above the ground beneath his feet, the orang