126 THE NEANDERTHAL SKULL. 



in the system of prophecy. It is not a 

 Beast) but a mere putrid excrescence of 

 the Papal Beast an excrescence which, 

 though it may diffuse death through 

 every vein of the body on which it 

 grew, yet shall die along with it. Its 

 enormities will hasten its overthrow. It 

 is in no shape formed for perpetuity." 



Nothing is more surprising than the 

 poverty of argument displayed, and the 

 illogical train of reasoning adopted by 

 those of Mr. Darwin's disciples, who 

 ignore or deny alike the God of Revelation 

 and the Creator of the Universe. It will 

 be sufficient if I remind you of the 

 opinions of some of the most learned 

 scientists of the 19th century in opposition 

 to these Atheistic delusions. " We need 

 not," said Professor MAIN, once Radcliffe 

 Observer at Oxford, " in accepting the 

 Biblical narrative of man's creation, re- 

 pudiate one fact accurately deduced from 

 modern scientific research." 



In the same strain wrote Professor CHAL- 

 LIS, Plumian Professor at Cambridge 



