140 THE NEANDERTHAL SKULL. 



those who do not believe his version of the 

 doctrine of Evolution, are "for the most 

 part either ignorant or superannuated."* 

 Professor Huxley pronounces his opponents 

 to be " persons who not only have not at- 

 tempted to go through the discipline neces- 

 sary to enable them to be judges, but who 

 have not even reached that stage of emer- 

 gence from ignorance, in which the know- 

 ledge that such a discipline is necessary 

 dawns upon the mind." f Dr. Louis 

 Biichner calls those who take a different 

 view from himself as " mental slaves " 

 " speculative idiots " " yelping curs ; " 

 while he prematurely boasts of his own 

 "enlightenment, and the forthcoming de- 

 liverance of his fellow-men from obsolete 

 and pernicious prejudices." J 



It has been justly said that it would be 

 difficult to find any instance of theological 



*Naturliche Schopfungsgeschichte, pp. 577, 638. Else- 

 where Haeckel terms his opponents "a howling 

 pack." 



f Huxley's American Addresses, p. 148. 



J Buchner's Force and Matter, Preface, p. 86. 



