156 THE NEANDERTHAL SKULL. 



in making experiments and observations, 

 and in drawing general conclusions from 

 them by induction, and admitting of no 

 objections against the conclusions but such 

 as are taken from experiments or other 

 certain truths ; for hypotheses are not to le 

 regarded in experimental philosophy" And 

 Mr. Darwin, at the close of his life, frankly- 

 admitted that his Evolution theory was 

 " only an hypothesis."* 



14. Hence Professor GOODSIR, of Edin- 

 burg, one of the foremost men of his 

 age, justly asserted that "man is entirely 

 separated from animals by reason of his 

 spiritual nature standing alone in the great 

 work of creation ; as it is in virtue of his 

 possession of a spiritual principle, by 

 which alone he is capable of thought and 

 speech, and is impressed with the belief of 

 moral truth and divine agency, that man 

 stands alone among the organized beings 

 of the globe."t 



* See Preface. 



f Gtoodsir's Anatomical Memoirs, i., p. 271 



