234 THE NEANDERTHAL SKULL. 



at the fact that the really wise, belonging to 

 the two centuries which have intervened 

 between that age and the present day, 

 have utterly and entirely rejected that 

 singular delusion, which made man the 

 lineal descendant of the larvae of an 

 ascidian tadpole ; though it never should 

 be forgotten that on the subject of the 

 Evolution theory the gulf is far wider, 

 and the difference is far greater, between 

 Darwin's hypothesis and that of his 

 infidel followers, than it is between his 

 teaching and the creed of those who 

 accept the Mosaic Cosmogony as revealed 

 in the inspired Word of God ; and that, 

 with the exception of Professor Tyndall, 

 every one of them is more or less hostile 

 to the speculations of the great Naturalist, 

 who towards the close of his life candidly 

 acknowledged that the Evolution theory 

 was " only an hypothesis." 



In the peroration to his brilliant Essay 

 on the Use and Limit of the Imagination in 

 Science, Professor Tyndall says 



" When we endeavour to pass from the 



