128 THE NEANDERTHAL SKULL. 



matter could and did develop itself first 

 into living organisms, and finally into 

 man, " the wonder and glory of the 

 universe," as Mr. Darwin says, or as 

 better expressed in the language of Moses, 

 " made after the image and likeness 

 of God." 



The whole question, then, resolves itself 

 into this Creation or Evolution ? Which 

 is true ? It is impossible to reconcile them. 

 All argument from observation and expe- 

 rience are distinctly in favour of the one, 

 and consequently adverse to the other. 

 No single case of Evolution from one 

 species to another has ever been produced. 

 If there has, as Dr. Johnson said of Lord 

 Monboddo, the original propounder of 

 Darwin's theory, let him produce a 

 specimen of man with a tail ; so you may 

 challenge the whole Darwinian party to 

 produce a single specimen of one species 

 developing itself into another though 

 Darwin has supposed it possible that a bear 

 swimming about with its mouth wide open 

 trying to catch flies, would, if it swam long 



