200 THE NEANDERTHAL SKULL. 



mountains reached that lofty region, 

 having dropped from the pockets of the 

 Crusaders on their return from the East ! 

 agrees with your learned professor, 

 as he says, "None but blind men can 

 doubt that the whites, negroes. Albinos, 

 Hottentots, Laplanders, Chinese, and 

 Americans, are entirely distinct races" 

 But there are those, with far higher 

 claims to rank as men of science, who 

 take an entirely opposite view. I will 

 mention three or four, who, I conclude, 

 had not the honour of being known to 

 Huxley. 



(1.) The Duke of Argyll observed, 

 " The unity of mankind is too deeply in- 

 terwoven with the fundamental doctrines 

 of Christianity, for us to make any dis- 

 tinction between them." 



(2.) Sir Charles Lyell taught that, 

 " The unity of race from a single pair, 

 was a doctrine against which there 

 appears to be no sound objection." 



(3.) Professor Pritchard, whose cele- 

 brated work on The Natural History of 



