THE NEANDERTHAL SKULL. 137 



knows whether, after my Lectures on 

 Darwin's Philosophy of Language, he 

 may not be converted by Bleek and 

 Haeckel, 'the mad Darwinian,' as he 

 calls him." * 



With justice Max Miiller continues 

 "Why is there all this wrangling as to 

 whether man is the descendant of a lower 

 animal or not? Why cannot people exa- 

 mine the question in a temper more con- 

 sonant with real love of truth ? . . . Let 

 us see what exists to day. We see to 

 day that the lowest of savages, men 

 whose language is said to be no better 

 than the clucking of hens, or the 

 twittering of birds, and who have been 

 declared in many respects lower even 

 than animals, possess this one specific 

 characteristic, that if you take one of their 

 babies, and bring it up in England, it will 

 learn to speak as well as any English baby, 

 while no amount of education will elicit 

 any attempts at language from the highest 



* Chips, iv., p. 469. 



