150 THE NEANDERTHAL SKULL. 



" the embryo of man does not pass through 

 the lower forms of animals." And again, he 

 teaches that " observation of the actual 

 change of any one species into another 

 has not yet been recorded." And so in 

 his Classification of Animals, Owen again 

 affirms that " Man is the sole species of 

 his genus, and the sole representative of 

 his order and sub-class." Adding, with 

 the confidence of a master-mind, " Thus, I 

 trust, has been furnished the confutation of 

 the notion of a transformation of the ape into 

 man " (p. 103). 



4. Professor MAX MULLER, as before 

 noticed, deems it " the duty of every 

 friend of truth to resist with all his might 

 the hasty conclusions of the Darwinian 

 school." 



5. Professor CLERK MAXWELL asserts that 

 "No theory of Evolution can be formed 

 to account for the similarity of molecules. 

 Science is incompetent to reason on creation 

 of matter itself out of nothing" 



6. Professor PHILLIPS, as already noticed, 

 teaches that "No one advanced in philo- 



