176 THE NEANDERTHAL SKULL. 



as it accords so perfectly with the princi- 

 ples of Romanism, in its most true and ultra 

 form, as expressed by the founder of the 

 Jesuits in his famous aphorism, " What I 

 see white I believe to be black, if the 

 Church of Rome so define it to be." * 



I cannot think that Professor Huxley 

 seriously meant to assert that Darwin's 

 " hypothesis " of all mankind having ori- 

 ginally been evolved from the larvae of 

 an ascidian tadpole, or according to his 

 own expressed view of the Evolution 

 theory, going some steps further back into 

 chaos, from an atom of lifeless protoplasm, 

 is to be for a moment compared in point of 

 truth with what the Jesuits of Rome are 

 pleased to term, " Newton's hypothesis 

 of the earth's motion." If he did, it affords 

 another proof of the wisdom of Mr. Glad- 

 stone's remark " I have always thought," 

 he once said, " that scientific men run too 

 much in a groove. They do noble work in 



* Exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola, edited by the 

 late Cardinal Wiseman. 



