158 THE NEANDERTHAL SKULL. 



theory is untenable, and that ' Natural 

 Selection ' is not the origin of species ; 

 2nd, to demonstrate that nothing even 

 in Mr. Darwin's theory, and a fortiori 

 nothing in Evolution generally, was neces- 

 sarily antagonistic to Christianity "(p. 429). 

 Hence he concludes in another of his 

 works, entitled Man and Apes, in which he 

 pronounces Darwinism to be " a crude and 

 untenable hypothesis" that "If it be true 

 that the long-lost structural character of 

 certain apes is due to c Atavism ' and f Re- 

 version,' in their modern descendants, 

 which formerly existed in hypothetical 

 ancestors ; and that man and monkey are 

 diverging descendants of a creature with 

 certain cerebral characters, then that 

 remote ancestor must also have had 



1. The wrist of the chimpanzee; 2. 

 The voice of a long- armed ape; 3. The 

 ear of the gorilla ; 4. The nose of the long- 

 tailed proboscis monkey; 5. The chin of 

 the siamang; 6. The skull of an Ame- 

 rican ape; 7. The ischium of a slender 

 loris ; 8. The whiskers and beard of a sakis ; 



