Ragnarok : the age of fire and gravel

DID MAN EXIST BEFORE THE DRIFT? 125

In another cave, in the Neanderthal, near Hochdale, between Diisseldorf and Elberfeld, a skull was found which is the most ape-like of all known human crania. The man to whom it belonged must have been a barbarian brute of the rudest possible type. Here is a representation of it.

Tue NEANDERTHAL SKULL.

I beg the reader to remember these skulls when he comes to read, a little further on, the legend told by an American Indian tribe of California, describing the marriage between the daughter of the gods and a son of the grizzly bears, from which union, we are told, came the Indian tribes, These skulls represent creatures as far apart, I was about to say, as godsand bears. The “Engis skull,” with its full frontal brain-pan, its fine lines, and its splendidly arched dome, tells us of ages of cultivation and development in some favored center of the race ; while the horrible and beast-like proportions of “the Neanderthal skull” speak, with no less certainty, of undeveloped, brutal, sayage man, only a little above the gorilla in capacity ;—a prowler, a robber, a murderer, a caye-dweller, a cannibal, a Cain.