20 THE NEANDERTHAL SKULL. 



GUATAMA BUDDHA, the founder of the 

 Buddhist religion, upheld very strongly this 

 Transmutation theory ; and his followers 

 in Japan pay such respect unto their 

 ancestors of the Simian tribe, that apes and 

 monkeys are visibly worshipped in their 

 pagodas, in the same way that Eoman 

 Catholics adore the images and pictures 

 of their dead saints. And so careful are 

 they of the parental stock in that happy 

 land, that hospitals are generously provided 

 for the sick and poor apes,* just as in 

 Protestant England they are established 

 for those of your own sick and poor who 

 need them so much ; so that you may in 

 course of time hear of an annual hospital 

 sermon in Japan for the sick monkeys, just 

 as you have one in London in the present 

 day. In the Archives of the Propaganda 

 at Rome there exists a letter addressed in 

 1742 by Mi- Vang, the Grand Lama of 

 Thibet, to Pope Benedict XIV., in which 

 he speaks of the happiness enjoyed by the 



* Dr. Hurd's Religious Rites and Ceremonies of All 

 Nations, p. 105. 



