THE NEANDERTHAL SKULL. 31 



the snout became shortened, and therefore 



more vertical When the orang-outang 



is compelled to take to flight from very 

 pressing danger, he immediately falls 

 down on all fours, proving that such must 

 have been the primitive condition of the 

 animal ; and thus children, who have large 

 heads and prominent stomachs, can hardly 

 walk at two years old, and their frequent 

 tumbles indicate the natural tendency to 

 resume the quadrupal state." * 



In one of the ballads of the 19th 

 century, which is supposed to point 

 directly to the Evolution doctrine of Mr. 

 Darwin, but which in reality belongs 

 to Lamarck, as the original propounder 

 of the view so charmingly advocated by 

 his disciple, who has by his talent made 

 the theory popular, Lamarck's idea of the 

 short-legged shore bird gradually develop- 

 ing itself into the long-legged stork; 

 or the short-necked deer, by continually 

 stretching in order to graze on the top- 

 most branches, in time evolved itself into 



* See Appendix 0. 



