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Darwinism, that the progress of organic évolution in the future 

 will be based. 



Darwinians Alarmed. 



The resolution adopted by the Council hère déclares that the 

 body is convineed that " any législation attempting to limit the 

 teaching of any scientific doctrine so well established and so 

 widely accepted by specialists as is the doctrine of évolution, 

 would be a profound mistake, which could not fail to injure and 

 retard the advancement of knowledge and of huinan welfare 

 by denying the freedoni of teaching and inquiry which is essential 

 to ail progress. " 



The resolution afïinns that " so far as the scientific évidence 

 of the évolution of plants and animais and nian are concerned, 

 and there is no ground whatever for the assertion that thèse 

 évidences constituto a ' niero guess, ' no scientific generahzation 

 is more thoroughly supported b}' thoroughly tested évidence 

 than is that of organic évolution. 



" The e/idence in favour of the évolution of man are sufficient 

 to convince every scientist of note in the world. Thosc évidences 

 are increasing in number and importance every year. 



" The theory of évolution is one of the most potent of the 

 gAeat influences that hâve thus far entered into human expé- 

 rience ; it has promoted the progress of knowledge, it has fos- 

 ter(>d unprojudiced inquiiy and it has served as an invaluable 

 aid in humanity's search for truth in many fields. " 



Adversaries of the stand taken by the Council see in the reso- 

 lution a rathei- weak attempt to bolster up a cause that is cons- 

 tantly losing grountl. Particularh' is the resolution regarded 

 as an effort to countoract the influence of the criticisni of the 

 inadequacy of the tc^aching of Darwin's theory of natural sélec- 

 tion voiccd by Professoi' William Bateson, of England, at the 

 meeting of the association held last year in Toronto. 



Mendel Hurt Darwin. 



As pointed ont by Sir Bertram Windle in the N.C.W.C. 

 Editorial Sheet of last March, the discoveries of Abbot Mendel 



