84 THE NEANDERTHAL SKULL. 



throne "Is thy servant a dog, that he 

 should do this great thing ? " 



The conclusion of the whole matter 

 at which Mr. Darwin has arrived, respect- 

 ing the human race having been evolved 

 primarily from a tadpole, and finally from 

 a monkey seems to rest, not so much 

 upon logical inference, or careful observa- 

 tion, or testing experiment, as upon that 

 exuberant fancy of which he is so great a 

 proficient. You will not therefore be 

 surprised at hearing that having so many 

 undeniable proofs, as he considers, of man's 

 tadpole-cum-monkey descent, he should 

 allow his fancy to lead him thus far astray 

 by declaring that he "would as soon be 

 descended from the heroic little monkey, 

 who braved his dreaded enemy in order 

 to save the life of his keeper ; or from that 

 old baboon, who descending from the 

 mountains, carried away in triumph his 

 young comrade from a crowd of astonished 

 dogs; as from a savage who delights to 

 torture his enemies, offers up bloody 

 sacrifices, practices infanticide without 



