236 THE NEANDERTHAL SKULL. 



taught amid the twilight of the 18th 

 century " I am," he said, " the creature 

 of to-day, passing through life as an 

 arrow through the air. I am a spirit come 

 from God, and returning to God ; just 

 hovering over the great gulf, till a few 

 moments hence I am no more seen. I 

 drop into an unchangeable eternity. I 

 want to know one thing, the way to heaven, 

 and how to land safe on that happy 

 shore." 



One word, in conclusion, Gentlemen, in 

 reference to the EVOLUTION THEORY, which 

 has so long engaged our attention. I 

 cannot help thinking that if ever the 

 scientific speculations, and I must add 

 " delusions " as well, are ever impartially 

 and fully written, it will prove the truth 

 of Bacon's axiom, that "In all superstitions 

 wise men follow fools." There is as much 

 superstition and more credulousness on the 

 part of those who prefer their own crude 

 imaginations to the teaching of revealed 

 religion, than in that of the most confiding 



