198 THE NEANDERTHAL SKULL. 



or Waitz themselves, the estimate of the 

 latter say 35,000,000,000 years for the 

 supposed antiquity of man is not sufficient 

 for the rapacious maw of the former ! Such 

 was the teaching of Professor Huxley in 

 the 19th century, antagonistic to the plain 

 statements of Moses respecting the age of 

 man on earth. 



A third opinion pronounced by the same 

 learned professor was against the Unity 

 of the Human Race. Although both Moses 

 and the Apostle Paul, in his address to the 

 learned Athenians, alike taught that man- 

 kind were sprung from a single pair, as 

 the latter expresses it, "God hath made of 

 one blood all nations of men to dwell on 

 all the face of the earth," Huxley, in order 

 to carry out his principles that "scepticism 

 is the highest of duties; blind faith the 

 one unpardonable sin " * declared that 

 " Five-sixths of the public are taught this 

 Adamitic monoganism (viz., that all man- 

 kind are descended from Adam), as if it 



* Huxley's Lay Sermons, p. 2. 



