172 THE NEANDERTHAL SKULL. 



must have used language studiously 

 calculated to deceive His creatures and 

 worshippers, is no religion worthy of the 

 name.' 7 * 



An eminent German scholar of the 

 highest fame in that age, the illustrious 

 Niebuhr, takes an entirely different view 

 from that of Professor Huxley, as he once 

 justly wrote to a friend, and you may be 

 sure that every one who has the slightest 

 and most elementary knowledge . of the 

 Gospel will agree with him " Chris- 

 tianity without a personal God is no 

 Christianity at all to me, though it may 

 be a very ingenious philosophy. I have 

 often said I do not know what to 

 do with a metaphysical God, and that I 

 will have none but the God of the Bible, 

 who is heart to heart with us." f 



Professor Huxley offers, however, a 

 very good answer to himself by a remark 

 which he makes in his Life of Hume, 



* Huxley, in Contemporary Review, Nov. 1871, p. 458. 

 f Nietmhr's Life and Letters, vol. ii., p. 123. 



