. Facts and fancies in modern science [microform] : studies of the relations of science to prevalent speculations and religious belief : being the lectures of the Samuel A. Crozer Foundation in connection with the Crozer Theological Seminary, for 1881. Evolution and religion; Creation; Man; Natural selection; Evolution et religion; Création; Homme; Sélection naturelle. i6o FACTS AND FANCIES tons to those of i\ustralians and other rude tribes, and of the ancient Danes of Borroby— a people not improbably allied to the Estho- nians and Fins—remarks that the manner in which the individual heads of


. Facts and fancies in modern science [microform] : studies of the relations of science to prevalent speculations and religious belief : being the lectures of the Samuel A. Crozer Foundation in connection with the Crozer Theological Seminary, for 1881. Evolution and religion; Creation; Man; Natural selection; Evolution et religion; Création; Homme; Sélection naturelle. i6o FACTS AND FANCIES tons to those of i\ustralians and other rude tribes, and of the ancient Danes of Borroby— a people not improbably allied to the Estho- nians and Fins—remarks that the manner in which the individual heads of the most homoge- neous rude races differ from each other " in the same characters, though perhaps not to the same extent with the Engis and Neanderthal skulls, seems to prohibit any cautious reasoner from affirming the latter to have necessarily been of distinct ; My own experience in Amer- ican skulls, and the still larger experience of Dr. Wilson, fully confirm the wisdom of this caution. . He adds : "Finally, the comparatively large cranial capacity of the Neanderthal skull, over- laid though it may be by pithecoid, bony walls, and the completely human proportions of the ac- companying limb-bones, together with the very fair development of the Engis skull, clearly in- dicate that the first traces of the primordial stock whence man has been derived need no longer be sought by those who entertain any form of the doctrine of progressive develop- ment in the newest Tertiaries, but that they may be looked for in an epoch more distant from that of the Elephas primigenius than that is from ; If he had possessed the Cro-magnon. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Dawson, J. W. (John William), Sir, 1820-1899. Philadelphia : American Baptist Publication Society


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