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differ materially in type from the ordinary cranium of the lower 

 races of mankind ; the other, found in a cave at Neanderthall, in 

 western Germany, on the contrary, represents an individual more 

 than half way down between our lower races and the anthropoid 

 apes. The low and retreating forehead, the great development 

 of the bony ridge over the eyes, so characteristic of the larger 

 apes, the massive size of all the processes for the attachment of 

 muscles, the enormous thickness and strength of some other 

 bones of the skeleton found with the skull, all denote the pow- 

 erful and terrible wild ape-man of the Rhine forests. There is 

 no question of this creature being a link between man and the 

 brute ; and the finding of one such specimen is as conclusive of 

 the former existence of an intermediate race as the discovery of 

 a single fossil archseopterix was of an order of flying animals 

 half way between birds and reptiles. 



All further traces of primitive man end with those of the 

 cave-dwellers. It is probable that no others will ever be found ; 

 because any condition lower than this would be simply animal. 

 There is then no absolute proof that this lowest type of mankind 

 originated from the next lower order of the animal kingdom, 

 that is, from anthropoid apes. But this at least is certain, either 

 the cave men did so advance out of the ape condition, or they 

 were created in the semi-bestial state < in which we have found 

 them. But the Bible account as well as every mythology of man's 

 creation launches the first human family into the full tide of an 

 advanced culture. Therefore no account that we have of any 

 supernatural creation can by any possibility apply to the poor 

 degraded cave-dwellers. The conclusion then seems unavoidable 

 that they came up through still older and lower stages of animal 

 being ; that the succession must run uninterruptedly down and 

 into some now extinct species of carnivorous apes. 



Here we leave the argument of the evolutionists. I think no 

 one can say I have not presented their case with fidelity arid to 

 the best of my ability. It remains to follow up these premises 

 to their unwelcome but logical conclusions. 



In all this long and slow progress from the cave-men or the 

 ape men to the sovereigns of Europe, embracing a period, some 



