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skull are more Simian than those of the lower savages 

 among men, he is conveying a wrong impression. 

 Besides, as the skull from the Neanderthal grotto has 

 no companions, it may represent a savage dolt. 



Some very low down skulls found in mounds near 

 Borresby, in Denmark, have, by Huxley, been com- 

 pared with the crania of the native Australian, also 

 with those of several degraded types, yet nothing 

 definitely arid specifically pithecoid in any of the 

 entire lot has been presented. There is as wide a 

 difference in the capacities of savage skulls as there 

 is in the crania of civilized men. The Esquimau 

 skull is larger on the whole than the average of 

 crania belonging to civilized nations. The heavy- 

 jawed and retreating skull of the Carib excites a feel- 

 ing of disgust on account of its variance from the 

 outlines and proportions of a cranium bearing the 

 features of an intellectual type of man, yet there is 

 nothing distinctively Simian in the make-up -of that 

 brutal organization. The skull and brain are em- 

 phatically savage, but in no respect pithecoid. Then 

 again the children of the Jowest savages can be reared 

 in such a way that they shall 'approximate the aver- 

 age of civilized men, while the young of the highest 

 anthropoids can not be made to talk, or otherwise 

 manifest specific human traits. In a consideration of 

 these matters we should not be misled by comparisons 

 made between the size of the brain of the gorilla and 

 that of a Bushman, but we are to compare tractability, 

 mental scope, and educability in the offspring of both 

 characters. 



The advocates of Darwinism and evolution con- 

 tinue to reiterate that a creature which spanned the 

 gap between monkey and man lived at a period when 



