THE NEANDERTHAL SKULL. Ill 



self, whose aim in forming the earth and 

 in allowing it to undergo the successive 

 changes which Geology has pointed out, 

 and in creating successively all the different 

 types of animals which have passed away, 

 was to introduce man upon its surface. 

 Man is the end towards which all the 

 animal creation has tended from the first 

 appearance of the first Palaeozoic fishes." * 



I am not aware that any attempt has 

 ever been made, either by Darwin himself, 

 or by any of his disciples, to answer 

 Agassiz on this point. In which respect 

 they have, according to the usual practice 

 of ardent, but ill-informed controversialists, 

 shown their discretion by ignoring the 

 conclusive arguments of their opponents. 



Another of the celebrities of the 19th 

 century, Professor ST. GEORGE MIVART, has 

 well remarked concerning the theory of 

 Natural Selection, that " the special Dar- 

 winian hypothesis is beset with certain 

 scientific difficulties, which the author 



* Agassiz, Comparative Anatomy, 689, 90. 



