196 THE NEANDERTHAL SKULL. 



Hence we find, among multitudes of others 

 equally in error, the following speculations 

 respecting the supposed antiquity of man, 

 in contrast to the unerring word of truth. 



1. Moses gives man an antiquity of 

 about 6,000 years ; and no proof, nor a 

 scintilla of evidence, has ever yet been 

 produced to show that this is wrong. 



2. The late Baron Bunsen allowed man 

 an antiquity of about 22,000 years. 



3. Mr. Jukes, an English Geologist, 

 ditto of 100,000 years. 



4. Professor Fiihlroth of Germany, ditto 

 of 200,000 years. 



5. M. Chabas, a French Egyptologer, 

 ditto of 300,000 years. 



6. The Chronology of the Brahmins, 

 ditto of 4,320,000 years. 



7. Dr. Hunt, late President of the An- 

 thropological Society, ditto of 9,000,000. 



8. Mr. Wallace, the famous Naturalist, 

 ditto of 1,000,000,000 years. 



9. Prof. Waitz, ditto of 35,000,000,000 

 years. 



10. Prof. Huxley, ditto of (?) years. 



