146 THE NEANDERTHAL SKULL. 



for his distant home, will still turn to the 

 Mystery from which it has emerged, seek- 

 ing so to fashion it as to give unity 



to thought and faith casting aside all 



the restrictions of Materialism, I would 

 affirm this to be a field for the noblest 

 exercise of what, in contrast with the 

 knowing faculties, may be called the creative 

 faculties of man. Here, however, I touch 

 a theme too great for me to handle, but 

 which will assuredly be handled by the 

 loftiest minds when you and I, like 

 streaks of morning cloud, shall have 

 melted into the infinite azure of the 

 past."* " The creative faculties of man ! " 

 Is not this sailing very close to, and very 

 fast with, a wind which blows from a very 

 strong Materialistic quarter ? 



But it is somewhat difficult to under- 

 stand TyndalFs meaning, when he uses the 

 words "Matter" and " Materialism." If 

 he means, as Groethe used the term, to define 

 "the living garment of God," it is beauti- 



* TyndalTs Belfast Address, p. 65. 



