112 THE NEANDERTHAL SKULL. 



ventures to think are absolutely insuper- 

 able" just as the late Bishop Phillpotts 

 pronounced the differences between the 

 Churches of England and Rome to be ; * 

 because, as he proves " Natural Selection 

 is incompetent to account for the incipient 

 stages of useful structures ; and does not 

 harmonise with the co-existence of closely 

 similar structures of diverse origin; and 

 some facts of geographical distribution 

 intensify other difficulties ; and the ob- 

 jection drawn from the physiological 

 difference between ( species ' and ' races ' 

 still exist unrefuted."f Professor Mivart 

 somewhat severely remarks, that "it was 

 inevitable that very many half -educated 

 men and shallow thinkers should accept 

 with eagerness the theory of Natural 

 Selection, or rather what they think to be 

 such (for few things are more remarkable 



* See Ms Letters to the late Charles Butler, "On 

 the Insuperable Difficulties which Separate the 

 Church of England from the Church of Kome." 

 New Edition, 1866. 



f See Appendix J. 



