136 THE NEANDERTHAL SKULL. 



On the important subject of the Evolu- 

 tion theory, Professor Max Miiller justly 

 remarks " The question is not whether 

 the belief that animals so distinct as a 

 man, a monkey, an elephant, and a 

 humming bird, a snake, a frog, and a 

 fish could all have sprung from the same 

 parents is monstrous, but solely and simply 

 whether it is true" * 



On the subject of language, Max Miiller 

 observes "In his Lectures on Language, 

 Professor Whitney protests strongly 

 against Darwinian materialism. But as 

 he confesses himself half a convert to 

 the low-wow and pooh-pooh theories, f 

 thus showing how wrong I was in 

 supposing that those theories had no 

 advocates among comparative philologists 

 in the 19th century nay, as now, after 

 he has discovered at last that I am no 

 believer in Dingdongism, he seems inclined 

 to say a kind word for the advocates of 

 that theory, Heyse and Steinthal, who 



* Chips, iv., p. 451. f See Appendix K. 



