64 THE NEANDERTHAL SKULL. 



the middle of which the generation of 

 Adam appears, thereby proving the Welsh- 

 man's ancestors as belonging to the class 

 of pre-Adamites, for which many sciolists 

 zealously contend in the present day. 



But after all what are these to be 

 compared to the extreme length of the 

 Darwinian tale, or tail ? They are, as the 

 Yankee acutely said, simply "nowhere." 

 Let me, however, do full justice to Mr. 

 Darwin, by calling your attention to what 

 he teaches respecting your primeval ances- 

 tor. You observe that in the passage 

 already quoted, Darwin can only obtain "an 

 obscure glance " at this ancestor. And so 

 in another part of the same work he says, 

 "In the dim obscurity of the past, we can 

 see that the early progenitor of all the 

 vertebrata must have been an aquatic 

 animal, provided with brachio, with the 

 two sexes united in the same individual, 

 and with the most important organs of the 

 body (such as the brain and heart) 

 imperfectly developed. This animal seems 

 to have been more like the larvae of our 



