242 THE NEANDERTHAL SKULL. 



domestic breeds, but declaring the Evolu- 

 tion of one species into a really new and 

 different one simply impossible. If this is 

 so, then we must unquestionably take 

 refuge in the conception of creation and 

 of miracles; then Grod must have in the 

 beginning created grass and herbs and 

 trees, as well as animals, each after its 

 kind. 



" Natural science has long endeavoured 

 to establish the Evolution theory in the 

 place of the conception of creation, so 

 alien to her spirit; but it was Charles 

 Darwin who made the first truly scientific 

 attempt to deal seriously with this con- 

 ception, and trace it through the organic 



world Vainly did we philosophers 



decree the extermination of miracles ; our 

 ineffectual sentence died away, because we 

 could neither dispense with miraculous 

 agency, nor point to any natural force able 

 to replace it, where it had hitherto seemed 

 most indispensable. Darwin has demon- 

 s^rated this force, this power of Nature; 

 he has opened the door by which a happier 



