208 THE NEANDERTHAL SKULL. 



goes one step further back, and declares 

 that the true origin of man is to be found 

 in that delicious mollusc the native 

 oyster ! 



Professor Lesley, likewise from the 

 land of the Far West, in his work entitled 

 Marts Origin and Destiny Sketched from the 

 Platform of the Sciences, without entering 

 into the same minute details as his brother- 

 professors, Darwin and Davis, have done, 

 arrives at a similar conclusion, and so 

 contents himself with affirming that he has 

 discovered " sufficient evidence (though 

 he is very reticent as to the how, where, 

 and when) to prove that man is a developed 

 monkey" (p. 93). But you may judge of 

 his incapacity to form an opinion on such 

 a subject, when you hear that he once 

 committed himself to the glaring absur- 

 dity of declaring that "the faculty of 

 worship in itself is no distinction between 

 man and beast, because the devotion of a dog 

 to his master is the same as that of a Chris- 

 tian to his Saviour, or an angel to his 

 God"! 



