168 THE NEANDERTHAL SKULL. 



21st century, how truly Frank Buckland's 

 anticipations have come to pass, how 

 ' short-lived ' was the queer delusion of 

 man's descent from an ascidian tadpole ; 

 still shorter the Atheistic doctrine of man 

 having been developed from dead matter, 

 such as a piece of carbon, by the process 

 of spontaneous generation ; and now you 

 naturally look back with wonder and 

 amazement at the wild speculations of the 

 Darwinites two centuries ago, when you 

 see that the Evolution theory has tumbled 

 to pieces like a pack of cards, or, using 

 the more poetic language of Professor 

 Tyndall, that it has quite " melted away 

 into the infinite azure of the past." 



My third witness is the Rev. F. 0. 

 MORRIS, Rector of Nunburnholme, in 

 Yorkshire, whose History of British Birds 

 constitutes him as distinguished an au- 

 thority in the feathery tribe as Frank 

 Buckland was in that of fishes. Mr. 

 Morris' opinion appears in a correspon- 

 dence which he once had with the editor 

 of the Guardian newspaper, and though 



