APHORISMS AND REFLECTIONS

Hokitika Guardian, 14 January 1932, Page 1

APHORISMS AND REFLECTIONS

Exactly in those respects in which the developing .Man differs from tnc Dog, lie resembles the ape, which, like man, has a spheroidal yelk-sac and a diseoidal, sometimes partially lobud, placenta. So that it is only quite in the later stages of development that the young human being presents marked tlilfereiices from the young ape, while the latter departs as much from the dog in its development, as the man does.

Startling as the last assertion may appear to be, it is demonstrably liieand it alone appears to he sniiieiont to place beyond all doubt the structural unity of man with the rest of the animal world, and more particularly and closely with the apes. Thus, identical in the physical processes bv which lie originates—identical in the mode of bis nutrition before and after the birth, with the animals which lie immediately below him in the scale—Han, if his adult and per feet structure be compared with theirs, exhibits, as might be expected, I a marvellous likeness of organisation. He resembles them as they resemble one another-—he differs from them as they differ from one another. eajBrmiHJCTM marnmniaMii