THE NEANDERTHAL SKULL. 95 



The German, despising the frivolity of 

 the Frenchman, and the unphilosophic 

 matter of the Englishman, retired to his 

 study, there to construct his idea of a camel 

 from out of the depths of Ms moral conscious- 

 ness. In this characteristic mark of the 

 German mind you may behold the germ and 

 the outcome of the Darwinian philosophy ; 

 i.e., of those who go beyond the Master, 

 and who, not content with attributing the 

 first primordial form of life to the act of a 

 divine Creator, adopt the Atheistic theory 

 of Strauss and others, for which he was 

 deservedly reproved by the celebrated 

 HUMBOLT, for stating with most unscientific 

 levity that the ignorganic was capable of 

 evolving organic life, in imitation of the 

 vain and ignorant heathen, though their 

 ignorance was excusable, inasmuch as they 

 were without a revelation from on high. 



Thus Justin Martyr, in the 2nd century, 

 relates that some of the boasting savans 

 of his day declared that " Mithdras was 

 begotten of a rock" * Other heathen 



* Justin, Dial, cum Trypho., ch. 70. 



