THE NEANDERTHAL SKULL. 



lawless attempts. The only mistake which 

 the author has made is attributing to 

 Darwin, as Strauss does, what more pro- 

 perly belongs to many of his disciples, 

 like Professors Huxley and Haeckel. For 

 not only did the late Mr. Darwin, cordially 

 acknowledge the existence of a Supreme 

 Creator, but he bore testimony to the value 

 of Christian missions in raising man from 

 that degraded state to which man must 

 assuredly fall, as long as he is without the 

 knowledge of the true God. 



The admission of the infidel Strauss, 

 who for a time happily for a short time 

 only misled that admirable and peerless 

 royal lady, the much-beloved and much- 

 lamented Princess Alice, is quoted by Mr. 

 Noel with great effect. Strauss once wrote 

 with perfect truth as follows : 



"We see that in organic nature like 

 always proceeds from like, never unlike 

 from unlike Natural science ob- 

 served the different species of organic 

 beings as inviolable limits, admitting 

 perforce the development of varieties and 



