246 THE NEANDERTHAL SKULL. 



God may have made the world by the 

 process of Evolution, asks them to consider 

 "how gratuitous, as well as mischievous, it 

 is to bring about a forced partnership 

 between the Christian's faith in the Scrip- 

 ture and this bankrupt theory ;" adding, 

 with much force 



" It is but natural that those who do not 

 believe in God should make the best they 

 can of Evolution. But it does seem ex- 

 ceedingly useless for those who believe in 

 a God, able to create by the direct word of 

 His power, to think that He should have 

 chosen to make a world by the cumbrous 

 and clumsy process of Evolution. Wooden 

 legs are made for people who are so 

 unfortunate as to have lost their natural 

 ones ; and a man in this predicament may 

 well be glad to wear the best wooden leg 

 that can be made for him. But a man 

 who has two good legs of his own, would 

 scarcely have one of them cut off for the 

 pleasure of wearing a wooden one, how- 

 ever artistically and highly recommended. 

 Neither if believers in the God of the 



