142 THE NEANDERTHAL SKULL. 



he was of Democritus, who lived in the 

 4th century B.C., who traced back every 

 living creature and every thing without 

 life to nothing ? 



You have hitherto heard what Mr. Dar- 

 win '^and some of his friends have to say 

 for themselves on behalf of the Evolution 

 theory of man's descent from a tadpole, or 

 from less than nothing; I propose to re- 

 verse the picture, and consider what the 

 most eminent scientists of the 19th century 

 have said on the same subject. 



MEN OF SCIENCE OF THE 19ra CENTURY. 



1. I propose to begin this list with one 

 of the most distinguished names on the 

 roll of science of that period, and whom 

 you may regard as the firm friend rather 

 than the opponent of the Darwinian phi- 

 losophy. I refer to the well-known Pro- 

 fessor TYNDALL, who in his Address at 

 Liverpool before the British Association 

 in 1870, together with that at Norwich in 

 1868, On the Use and Limit of the Imagination 

 in Science, and also with that delivered 



