162 THE NEANDERTHAL SKULL. 



Haeckel assumes it to be, then we must 

 demand, then it is a necessary claim, 

 that it should be introduced into the 

 schools." 



Further, in reply to the theory that the 

 human soul was nothing but " CARBON," 

 with a flavour of phosphorus,* and that as 

 Haeckel explained the development of all 

 existing organisms from a single organic cell 

 called "Protoplasm,"Dr. Virchow, while ad- 

 mitting the possibility of the long vainly - 

 sought-for missing link between man and 

 beast being discovered, " if not," as he says, 

 " with the apes, yet perhaps, as Herr Voght 

 now supposes, at some other point," 

 quietly adds : 



" I freely acknowledge that this is a 

 desideratum in science. I should not be 

 surprised if such a proof were produced ; 

 but it has not been done as yet. You are 

 aware that I am now specially engaged in 

 the study of ANTHROPOLOGY; but I am 



* It was a dictum ascribed to the German Moles- 

 chott, "Ohne Phosphor kein Gedanke." 



