THE NEANDERTHAL SKULL. 155 



tends to prove that he must have been a 

 separate creation"* 



13. In reply to some of Mr. Darwin's 

 candid avowals e.g., when he says, " To 

 suppose that the eye could have been 

 formed by NATURAL SELECTION seems 

 absurd in the highest possible degree ; "f 

 and again when he writes, "The chief 

 cause of our natural unwillingness to 

 admit that one species has given birth to 

 other and distinct species, is that we are 

 always slow in admitting any great 

 change of which we do not see the inter- 

 mediate steps "$ without dwelling upon 

 the fact that all observation, all experi- 

 ments and all experience are against such 

 a theory it will be sufficient to remember 

 the wise teaching of one of the master- 

 minds of the 19th century, Professor 

 SEDGEWICK, of Cambridge, who, in his 

 Discourse on the Studies of the University, 

 justly points out that "Analysis consists 



* Transactions of the Victoria Institute, vol. vii., p. 282. 

 f Origin of Species, p. 186. J Ibid., p. 481. 



