THE NEANDERTHAL SKULL. 107 



In the same strain Dr. Bree has proved 

 that Darwin's Theory of Natural Selection 

 " attributes, every thing to chance. An 

 imaginary power takes the place of design; 

 a series of imaginary laws, which have no 

 congruity, take the place of the laws of 

 life ; wild speculation is made to supersede 

 proof, and the proof that is . tendered is 

 founded upon a false interpretation of 

 facts, or facts have been imagined to re- 

 place realities. From beginning to end 

 Darwin's Origin of Species is a cheerless, 

 gloomy narrative. It destroys every ves- 

 tige from the mind, without replacing it, 

 without even a plausible or intelligent 

 theory." * 



By this wonderful theory of Natural 

 Selection, that old gossiping chronicler, 

 Giraldus Cambriensis, relates a medieval 

 myth of the 12th century, how that an 

 Irishman was transmuted into a salmon; 

 in the same way, I suppose, that Professor 

 Huxley declares that by eating mutton 



* Dr. Bree's Species Not Transmutalle, p. 254. 



