62 THE NEANDERTHAL SKULL. 



Unless we wilfully close our eyes, we may, 

 with our present knowledge, approximately 

 recognize our parentage, nor need we feel 

 ashamed of it" * 



With these words before us, it i& 

 impossible to mistake Darwin's meaning 

 that, in his estimation, man is descended 

 from an old-world monkey, and not, as 

 Scripture teaches, that man was formed out 

 of the dust of the earth by a separate act of 

 creative power, " after the image and like- 

 ness of Grod." And yet when the celebrated 

 Agassiz, equal if not superior to Darwin 

 as a Naturalist, in a lecture at SanFrancisco, 

 once defined the Evolution theory as an 

 attempt to " determine whether we ourselves 

 are descended from monkeys, or whether 

 we are the work of a beneficent Father," 

 a rash and not very learned disciple of Mr. 

 Darwin had the confidence to write in 

 Nature, October 24, 1872, that Agassiz's 

 truthful and necessary conclusions were 

 " singular misrepresentations." ! ! 



* Descent of Man, vol. i., pp. 212, 213. 



