In other words, if it could be shown that the Marmosets, for example, have arisen by gradual modification of the ordinary Platyrhini, or that both.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lectures and Essays] Reference

Marmosets and Platyrhini are modified ramifications of a primitive stock -- then, there would be no rational ground for doubting that man might have originated, in the one case, by the gradual modification of a man-like ape; or, in the other case, as a ramification of the same primitive stock as those apes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lectures and Essays] Reference

In other words, if it could be shown that the Marmosets, for example, have arisen by gradual modification of the ordinary Platyrhini, or that both Marmosets and Platyrhini are modified ramifications of a primitive stock -- then, there would be no rational ground for doubting that man might have originated, in the one case, by the gradual modification of.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Relations of Man to the Lower Animals] Reference

In other words, if it could be shown that the Marmosets, for example, have arisen by gradual modification of the ordinary Platyrhini, or that both Marmosets and Platyrhini are modified ramifications of a primitive stock — then, there would be no rational ground for doubting that man might have originated, in the one case, by the gradual modification of a man-like ape; or, in the other case, as a ramification of the same primitive stock as those apes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays] Reference