THE NEANDERTHAL SKULL. 93 



progenitors lived on the African continent 

 than elsewhere." * 



Professor Max Miiller explains the dif- 

 ference between the systems of Darwin and 

 one of his German disciples on this wise. 

 The former, he considers, is content with 

 four or five beginnings for all animals and 

 plants ; the latter requires but one primor- 

 dial cell a chemical combination of car- 

 bon, in the form of white of egg, such as 

 latliylius from the bottom of the Atlantic 

 in endless varieties. " In this," says Max 

 Miiller, with great force of truth, " there is 

 much ignorance under the form of knowledge" f 



It will be seen that much of the Evolu- 

 tionary theory is the product of that system 

 of development from the moral conscious- 

 ness which is more or less common to 

 all Darwin's disciples, whether English, 

 French or German. It reminds one of 

 Schiller's description of the Alps, without 



* Descent of Man, i. 156, 199. 



f See Max Miiller's Koyal Institution Lecture on 

 the Relation of Language and Thought. 



