98 THE NEANDERTHAL SKULL. 



doubt a long series of extinct worms were 

 our direct ancestors " / / * 



Professor Huxley is so enamoured of 

 the Evolutionary theory, whether as 

 taught by the Atheistic Haeckel, or the 

 more sober-minded Christian, Darwin, 

 that while he contents himself with placing 

 the latter on a par with Newton, he 

 declares of the former that " whether one 

 agrees or disagrees with him, one feels 

 that he has forced the mind into lines of 

 thought in which it is more profitable to go 

 wrong than to stand still" ! 



Hence he says, "To put HaeckeFs 

 views into a few words, he conceives that 

 all forms of life originally commenced as 

 monera, or simple particles of protoplasm ; 

 and these " monera originated from non- 

 living matter." f 



It is often said there is but one step 

 from the sublime to the ridiculous ; a 

 saying peculiarly apposite to the various 



ie, p. 39 9 

 f Huxley's Critiques and Addresses, p. 314. 



