THE NEANDERTHAL SKULL. 127 



"The language of Scripture neither is 

 nor can be contrary to the language of 

 Science." 



And so Professor STOKES, Secretary of 

 the Royal Society " The Book of Nature 

 and the Book of Revelation come alike 

 from God, and consequently there can 

 be no discrepancy between the two, if 

 rightly interpreted." Likewise Professor 

 PORTER, of Belfast, most truly declared 

 that "Not a single fact of Science 

 fully ascertained, has ever yet been proved 

 to be in opposition to a single statement 

 of Scripture rightly understood." 



The great gulf between Darwin and his 

 Atheistic followers was seen in this, that 

 the master was content with the Evolution 

 theory to conceive, though " only as an 

 hypothesis," that it was possible for the 

 ovilia to develop themselves into the 

 mammalia, and monkeys into men ; while 

 the disciples plunged into the slough 

 of materialism ; rushing like madmen 

 where " angels feared to tread," and 

 boldly contending that inorganic azoic 



