106 THE NEANDERTHAL SKULL. 



difficulty to overcome, as so many of his 

 disciples appear to have, he has sufficient 

 of his own, in the attempt to uphold the 

 Evolution theory, which admits the one act 

 of the Creator in calling Life into existence, 

 when he supplements it by the hypothesis 

 of the Transmutation of one species into 

 another. And which one of his opponents, 

 about a quarter of a century ago, fore- 

 seeing the impossibility of such a theory 

 (as a human infant being born, which had 

 not a human parentage) being true, thus 

 effectually pointed his shaft at a theory, 

 some parts of which Darwin frankly ac- 

 knowledged to be absurd in the highest 

 possible degree: "It does appear strange 

 that any Naturalist should ever have upheld 

 so monstrous a doctrine as that of the 

 transmutation of one species into another. . . 

 The whole theory is full of inconsistencies 

 from beginning to end ; and from whatever 

 point we view it, it is equally unsound." * 



* Woolaston, Op. Cit., pp. 186, 188; A.D. 1856. 

 Dedicated to Mr. Darwin. 



