134 THE NEANDERTHAL SKULL. 



Anthropological Review, No. xiii., explains 

 how the Aryans first acquired the power 

 of speech, which they subsequently taught 

 to the mute kitchen-middeners. He sup- 

 poses that at one time Europe abounded 

 with apes, " the fathers" of European men, 

 who were at first dumb, but who in 

 time, by gasping after articulation, at length 

 obtained it. "I confine myself to the 

 accepting and explaining known and 

 knowable phenomena. It is known that 

 anthropoids existed throughout Europe. 

 It is knowable that they became mute 

 men. It is knowable that these mutes 

 gasped after articulation, and in a few 

 spots attained to it. Those who did so 

 at one particular spot I call Aryans, 

 whether that spot was in Asia or in 

 the submerged continent of Atalantis ! " 



As a contrast to this teaching respecting 

 the origin of speech and language in man, 

 I would ask your attention to one who 

 may fairly be termed the first authority 

 of the 19th century on Philology I refer 

 to Professor Max Miiller. In the fourth 



