104 THE NEANDERTHAL SKULL. 



Mr. Darwin's hypothesis, I would add the 

 testimony of another eminent authority 

 of that age, in the person of Professor 

 CLERK-MAXWELL, as set forth in his Lecture 

 delivered at Bradford in 1873. " Nothing 

 of EVOLUTION," he declares, u can be 

 formed to account for the similarity of 

 molecules, for Evolution necessarily implies 

 continuous change, and the molecule is 

 incapable of growth or decay, of generation 

 or destruction. . . . Science is incompetent 

 to reason on the creation of matter itself 

 out of nothing. We have reached the 

 utmost limit of our thinking faculties, 

 when we have admitted that because 

 matter cannot be eternal and self -existent 

 it must have been created" 



Such is the answer which the true men 

 of science of the 19th century have made 

 to the unscientific follies and crude specu- 

 lations of men like Lucretius in ancient 

 times, and Oken in modern, when they 

 taught that the origin of all things was 

 nothing ! It is scarcely necessary to say that 

 Mr. Darwin never lent his countenance to 





