THE NEANDERTHAL SKULL. 131 



keys certainly understand much that is 

 said to them by man, and utter signal 

 cries of danger to their fellows," in which 

 Mr. Darwin thinks he has found " a first 

 step in the formation of language. 7 '* 



It is unnecessary to remind you how 

 directly this conflicts with the account 

 given by Moses of the creation of man 

 after the image of God, perfect in every 

 respect, and endowed with the gift of 

 speech and reason, as well as being con- 

 scious of right and wrong, as seen in the 

 record of the fall. 



Although Darwin is reticent on the 

 point already mentioned, not so one of his 

 disciples, and that one being a cleric of a 

 very rare kind, quite a rara avis in terris, a 

 suspended parson convicted of unorthodox 

 speculations. The Eev. Dunbar Heath, 

 M.A., F.R.S.L., F.A.S.L., in a paper read 

 before the Anthropological Society, On 

 the Acquirement of Language by Mutes, relates 

 that after having investigated the subject 



* Descent of Man, i., pp. 54 7. 

 K 2 



