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of the greatest authorities in their respective 

 fields. 



But what of the Neanderthal man? He was 

 constructed from an incomplete fragment of a 

 skull found in a cave of the Neanderthal, near the 

 Rhine, in 1857. Schwalbe in 1904 named him 

 the Homo primigenius. In 1901 the same author 

 had submitted the skull to a close examination 

 and quoted eleven different scientific opinions re 

 garding it. It was held by various representative 

 authorities to be the skull of an idiot, of a Kos- 

 sack, a Celt or a German, a Dutchman or a 

 Frisian, some claiming it belonged to a still exist 

 ing race and others to an extinct race, and some 

 regarded it simply as a freak of nature. It was 

 finally looked upon as simply the skull of some 

 ancient human race, not specifically different from 

 ourselves. 11 Even Huxley insisted that it repre 

 sented no intermediate form. The difference of 

 cranial capacity between the Neanderthal man 

 and a present Australian negro was shown to be 

 exceedingly slight. He was in brief a true man 

 and many specimens of skulls and skeletons have 

 been found that would seem to belong to the same 

 race, i.e. the men of Le Moustier, of whom Bert 

 ram Windle says : 



And what do we know about them? In the first place we 

 know that they were men in every sense of the word, and big- 



11 See Wasraann, op. dt. t pp. 467, 476 ; Windle, op. cit., pp. 

 148, 149- 



