92 THE NEANDERTHAL SKULL. 



been evolved. He tells you that their 

 name was Anthropiskes ; and that their 

 original dwelling-place was in Central Africa. 

 These hairy creatures were evolved out of 

 pure " apes," and a certain number of 

 them finding themselves in favourable 

 circumstances, developed into " black 

 men," who became the parents of all the 

 families of the earth, from which the 

 brown, copper, yellow and white races 

 branched off. 



Darwin abstains from speaking in the 

 same spirit of Positivism, as is manifested 

 by the French savant, which naturally 

 belongs to the countrymen of Comte, for 

 he contents himself with saying, "We do 

 not know whether man is descended from 

 some comparatively small species like the 

 chimpanzee, or from one as powerful as the 

 gorilla," though he cautiously adds that as 

 "it is probable Africa was formerly inha- 

 bited by extinct apes, closely allied to the 

 gorilla and chimpanzee, and as these two 

 species are now man's nearest allies , it is 

 somewhat more probable that our early 



