66 THE NEANDERTHAL SKULL. 



Genesis of Species (p. 92), will inform you 

 that these " ascidians are sometimes called 

 tunicarieSj or sea squirts." And inasmuch 

 as the term larvce, from which Darwin tells 

 you that you are descended, is defined in 

 the Latin dictionary as nothing more or 

 less than " ghosts, " it is evident, when 

 speaking with due scientific precision 

 according to the Darwinian philosophy, 

 that the germ of the very original parent of 

 the human race is to be found in the ghost 

 of a sea squirt ! 



Mr. Darwin, while admitting that though 

 he has found for his ancestors " a pedigree 

 of prodigious length," it is "not of a very 

 noble quality," to which you will doubtless 

 give your cordial assent ; but when he 

 adds, in the face of Scripture, that "any 

 longer to believe that man is the work of 

 a separate creation" is to adopt the hypo- 

 thesis of a " savage," you will naturally 

 think who is most like a savage, such men 

 as Bacon, Newton and Milton, three of the 

 greatest intellects which have ever ap- 

 peared in the world, of whom Cambridge 



