54 THE NEANDERTHAL SKULL. 



reproaches for the carelessness of his work, 

 and demand back my money ! " * 



I quote this specimen of the so-called 

 " scientific" teaching of the 19th century, 

 not so much on account of its gross stupidity, 

 as of its profane blasphemy, as if the most 

 complex and beautiful specimen of the 

 Creator's handywork could be measured 

 or understood by such an Atheist as Helm- 

 holtz proved himself to be. If such views 

 had really any hold upon the best and 

 most cultured portion of Christendom, the 

 awful dream of the celebrated John Paul 

 Friedrick Richter, whose portrait was so 

 skilfully drawn by one of your greatest 

 writers in the leading review of the 19th 

 century, t would have become almost a 

 reality u I wandered to the farthest verge 



* For an answer to this extraordinary specimen of 

 Atheistic arrogance, see Murphy on Habit and Intel- 

 ligence, i. p. 319. 



t Thomas Carlyle, in Edinburgh Review, No. 91, 

 1827. Carlyle is said to have condemned this dogma 

 of the Atheistic school, under the contemptuous 

 epithets of " Deluded Insanity" and "A Gospel of 

 Dirt," &c. 



