00 THE NEANDERTHAL SKULL. 



lified person will cordially agree. And 

 you may have observed in his writings 

 how commonly the hypothesis of an " If " 

 is introduced, both by the master and his 

 numerous disciples. Let me adduce one 

 specimen as sufficient for our purpose. In 

 his earlier work on the Origin of Species, 

 Mr. Darwin writes 



" On the principle of Natural Selection 

 with divergence of character, it does not 

 seem incredible that from some such low 

 and intermediate form as the lower algae, 

 both animals and plants may have been 

 developed; and IF we admit this, we must 

 admit that all organic beings which have 

 ever lived on this earth may have descended 

 from some one primordial form." * 



An interpreter of Mr. Darwin thus 

 explains the above passage " Born of 

 electricity and albumen, the simple 

 monod is the first living atom ; the 

 microscopic animalcules, the snail, the 

 worm, the reptile, the fish, the bird, and 



* Origin of Species, p. 519. 



