102 THE NEANDERTHAL SKULL. 



tinguished from other members of the 

 vertebrate kingdom." * 



Darwin appears to have forgotten the 

 judge's sage advice to an enquirer, " Give 

 your opinion, but never give your reason 

 for forming that opinion ; " for when he 

 grounds his theory on the fact that the ovule 

 of a dog (much smaller than a small 

 pin's head) and a human ovule are very 

 similar, he appears to be oblivious of the 

 fact that the ovule of a dog always produces 

 a dog, while the human ovule never produces 

 a dog but always a man. Whereas if 

 there existed that perfect resemblance 

 which Darwin fancies he detects between 

 the two, they ought to be capable of 

 producing indifferently dogs or donkeys, 

 monkeys or men ! Hence the foremost 

 Palaeontologist of the 19th century, whose 

 authority on Natural History stands at 

 a higher elevation than all Mr. Darwin's 

 disciples put together, I refer to Professor 

 OWEN, positively asserts that "the em- 



* Descent of Man, i. 14. 



