184 THE NEANDERTHAL SKULL. 



every philosophical thinker hails it (Darwin's 

 Origin of Species) as a veritable Whitworth 

 gun in the armory of liberation " (p. 280). 



Surely Professor Huxley ought to have 

 allowed that there had been some eminent 

 men of science, such as Sir Richard 

 Owen, or Agassiz, or Virchow, cum multis 

 aliis, who were deserving the name of 

 " Philosophers," but who were never able 

 to accept the fabulous theory of Darwinism. 



The learned professor explained his 

 theory of the Origin of Species in the 

 following manner : " If a drop of blood 

 be drawn from the finger, there will be 

 seen a small number of colourless corpus- 

 cules, which exhibit at once a marvellous 

 activity. The substance thus active is a 

 mass of protoplasm, and its activity differs 

 in detail rather than in principle from 

 that of the protoplasm of the nettle. 

 Under sundry circumstances the corpus- 

 cule dies, and becomes distended into a 

 round mass, in the midst of which is seen 

 a smaller spherical body, called its 

 nucleus. In the earliest condition of the 



