124 THE NEANDERTHAL SKULL. 



horror, but many of his Atheistic disciples, 

 undeterred by its blank materialism, far 

 exceeded the speculations of the master : 

 e.g., Dr. Louis Biickner, a noted German 

 Naturalist, but one of the " weaker 

 brethren," according to Prof essor TyndaPs 

 theory, has declared in his work on Force 

 and Matter, that respecting Evolution " the 

 law of analogy was perfectly irreconcilable 

 with the idea of a personal Almighty power" 



Such was the materialistic infidelity 

 of the 19th century, less gross, but more 

 pernicious to the young and thoughtless 

 than that of the 18th, which attained to 

 the climax of blasphemy when a fanatical 

 comedian of the name of Monvel, during 

 the saturnalia of the first French Re- 

 volution, burst out in a paroxysm of 

 Atheistic fury, exclaiming in the Church 

 of St. Roch " Grod ! if you exist, avenge 

 your injured name ! I bid you defiance ; 

 you remain silent, you dare not launch 

 your thunders ! Who after this will believe 

 in your existence ? '' * 



* Alison's History of Europe, ch. xiv., 48. 



