214 THE NEANDERTHAL SKULL. 



scientists ignore Deity, and reject the 

 possibility of the conditional "if" alto- 

 gether. Man, whom they consider to 

 be merely an aggregate of molecular 

 cells, made up of carbon with a dash of 

 phosphorus, and the human will to be 

 only a succession of cellular vibrations,, 

 these altogether constitute the grand cos- 

 mological theory of Osmosis, and that in 

 the estimation of these New York Posi- 

 tivists is every thing. Thus it pomes to 

 pass that immortality, the future life, all 

 your hopes, passions, desires, fears and 

 aspirations all duty, sensation, reflection, 

 memory and will all that ever has been,, 

 is now, and ever will be all things hu- 

 man and divine, may be summed up in 

 the one sole idea of these unscientific 

 sciolists, viz., the all potent doctrine of 

 OSMOSIS ! And there comes a shout and a 

 roar from the region of the Far West, like 

 that which once stirred the passions of the 

 idolatrous Ephesians in the Temple of 

 Diana Great is OSMOSIS of the New York 

 Positivists 1 1 1 



