116 THE NEANDERTHAL SKULL. 



single pair, like Adam and Eye, who 

 were created after the image and likeness 

 of their Maker. 



On the first head Darwin tells his 

 readers in The Origin of Species, he " had 

 two distinct objects in view 1st, To show 

 that species had not been separately 

 created ; and, 2nd, That Natural Selection 

 had been the chief agent of change." In 

 his later work on the Descent of Man, he 

 explains himself more fully by saying that 

 if he had " erred in giving to Natural 

 Selection great powers, which he is 

 far from admitting, or in having ex- 

 aggerated its power, which is in itself 

 probable, he hopes that he has done good 

 service in aiding to overthrow the dogma 

 of separate creations] "* i.e., in other words, 

 according to those who believe in the 

 supremacy and infallibility of the Bible, 

 in endeavouring to prove the Bible to 

 be untrue. 



Mr. Darwin's denial of man being a 



* Descent of Man, i., pp. 152, 3. 



