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long period of 4000 years ? Hence we 

 have endeavoured to let each man have 

 his own say, and speak for himself, by 

 collecting together in one focus the opin- 

 ions of almost all the celebrities of the 

 18th and 19th centuries on the subject of 

 EVOLUTION, as set forth in an address, 

 supposed to be delivered by the Neander- 

 thal Skull two centuries hence, when, to 

 use the expressive words of Professor 

 Tyndall, all the men and women of this 

 fast and progressive age will " have melted 

 into the infinite azure of the past." 



Some years ago I had the privilege of 

 exchanging works with Professor Tyndall, 

 in which business I always found him 

 kind, courteous and obliging. On one 

 occasion I ventured to ask him this 

 question "If Mr. Darwin's theory be 

 true, that MAN is descended from the 

 larvae of an ascidian born of an egg, how 

 was the first infant mammal nourished 

 and fed, on the supposition that its imme- 

 diate ancestor was a non-mammal ? " 

 Although I assured my distinguished 



