THE STORY OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY SCIENCE 



by the progressive portion of the scientific world amount- 

 ed to an ovation ; but the unscientific masses, on the other 

 hand, notwithstanding their usual fondness for tracing 

 remote genealogies, still gave the men of Engis and 



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Neanderthal the cold shoulder. Nor were all of the geol- 

 ogists quite agreed that the contemporaneity of these hu- 

 man fossils with the animals whose remains had been 

 mingled with them had been fully established. The 

 bare possibility that the bones of man and of animals 



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