THE NEANDERTHAL SKULL. 161 



was found in a peat bog, or in pile 

 dwellings, or in ancient caves, people 

 fancied they saw in it a wonderful token of 

 an inferior being, still quite undeveloped. 

 They smelt out the very scent of the ape. 

 Yet when we study the fossil man of the 

 quaternary period, we always find a MAN 

 just such as men are now." 



In reply to the demand of Haeckel and 

 other infidels, that the Evolution theory 

 should form a part of universal primary 

 education in Germany, Professor Virchow 

 observes : " When Herr Haeckel says that it 

 is a question for the educator whether the 

 theory of human evolution should be at 

 once laid down as the basis of education, 

 and the * protoplastic soul' be assumed 

 as the foundation of all ideas concerning 

 spiritual being, and whether the teaching 

 is to trace back the origin of the human 

 race to the lowest classes of the or- 

 ganic kingdom nay, still further, to spon- 

 taneous generation this is, in my opinion, 

 a perversion of the teacher's office. If the 

 Evolution theory be as certain as Herr 



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