10 THE NEANDERTHAL SKULL. 



tion of the actual change of any one species 

 into another has not yet been found ;" while 

 Professor Haeckel, on the other hand, 

 intrepidly maintained that the transition 

 from invertebrates to vertebrates was 

 clearly seen in that interesting little 

 animal the sand-eel. And Professor Huxley 

 confidently taught the curious dogma of 

 lobsters and sheep being " transubstan- 

 tiated into man."* 



As the Transmutation system of your 

 modern scientists bears a strong family 

 resemblance to the Transmigration theory 

 of the ancients, and as this bears upon the 

 doctrine of Evolution and the Origin of 

 Man, and was so keenly discussed in the 

 19th century, I propose to notice the ideas 

 which have been put forth by eminent 

 men on these points, both ancient and 

 modern, in due chronological order. 



The earliest authority on this subject is 

 the famous philosopher PYTHAGORAS, who 

 flourished in the 6th century B.C., and you 

 are indebted to your most celebrated 



* Huxley's Lay Sermons, p. 146. 



