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From:
Daniel Giraud Elliot
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
22 April 1870
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 f. 166
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Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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Is not prepared to express an opinion on man’s origin. On pure anatomical grounds he would form a family of the higher division of the primates, but if man’s intellectual, moral, and religious nature is considered, then "he differs more from an Anthropoid Ape than such an Ape differs from a lump of granite".