180 THE NEANDERTHAL SKULL. 



never have committed the unpardonable 

 blunder of supposing the Bible taught that 

 the universe was created by Almighty God 

 in six natural days ! ! ! What the Bible 

 really does teach is simply this that "In 

 the beginning of eternity, when the Word 

 was God, God called into existence, or 

 created the essence of the heavens and the 

 essence of the earth i.e., the whole uni- 

 verse." And after these had done their part, 

 if I may use such a term, in the course, it 

 may have been, of millions of years, the Al- 

 mighty thought fit to prepare earth for the 

 habitation of those created beings, whom 

 He made after His own image and likeness, 

 or as it is tersely rendered in our English 

 version, "In six days the Lord made 

 heaven and earth." But no competent 

 scholar would make the mistake which 

 Professor Huxley did at Sion College, of 

 confounding the two Hebrew words trans- 

 lated "created" and "made" as bearing 

 the same meaning ! 



Had Professor Huxley attacked the 

 philosophers of the 17th century in this 



