96 THE NEANDERTHAL SKULL. 



believed that men were sprung from rocks 

 or oaks ; while the great Cicero, with that 

 common sense in which the least worthy 

 followers of Darwin in the present 

 day are so manifestly deficient, pointedly 

 declares that " man is not chiselled 

 out of the rock, nor hewn out of the 

 oak ; for he has a soul : the one is 

 actuated by intellect, the other by the 

 senses." * 



Yet are some of the supporters of the 

 Evolutionary theory so fanatically opposed 

 to Scripture and common sense, that they 

 contend violently that a monad in process 

 of time will become a visible atom, and 

 that by the fortuitous concourse of atoms 

 the worlds were made. 



Thus Professor Haeckel teaches that 

 your earliest ancestors, whom he terms 

 " Monera" originated about the beginning 

 of the Laurentian period (the earliest known 

 of the geological strata) by means of spon- 

 taneous generation from the so-called 



* Cicero, Quasi. Acad., iv. 31. 



