222 THE NEANDERTHAL SKULL. 



Undeterred by this solemn warning on 

 the part of a master, Mr. Kay-Eobinson 

 hastened into the midst of the fray 



" As fools rush in where angels fear to tread" 

 by assuming that in consequence of 

 Darwin having so successfully proved 

 man in the past to have originally been 

 evolved primarily from a tadpole, and 

 finally from an old-world monkey 

 amongst your prehistoric ancestors, it had 

 been given him to declare and teach 

 what the Man of the Future would become 

 by the logical outcome of the Evolutionary 

 theory. In imitation of a very clever 

 skit by the late Lord Lytton on the Coming 

 Eace, in which he advocates " Woman's 

 Rights," and supposes that hereafter 

 woman would be the stronger and superior 

 vessel, and, in short, that then woman 

 would be every thing, and man next to 

 nothing, Mr. Kay-Robinson once drew 

 in The Nineteenth Century the not very flat- 

 tering picture, or rather, as we might ap- 

 propriately term it, the ludicrous caricature 

 of the poor wretch, once a man, as he will 



