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of contemporary science, but, touching the popular 

 imagination, it has added a new word to our 

 language ; and we all speak of Darwinism much 

 as we speak of evolution. It is true the scientist 0; \ 

 reminds us the words are not synonymous, that 

 evolution is much broader than Darwinism, that 

 Darwinism is only a fragment of the total evolu 

 tionary doctrine. Still there is no regulating the Qi^ 

 use of new words, and for the mass of mankind^ 

 the system of Darwin is identified with the the 

 ory of evolution. Nor is this astonishing. For, 

 tJTnngh..pvn1nt.i nTi was t^ncrM long before the time 

 of Darwin, and had even been conjectured of hu 

 man life, it did not come home to the hearts and 

 bosoms of men till Darwin produced his passive 

 and overwhelming argument to demonstrat^Aow x 

 the development of all living beings from simpler &quot; 

 forms had been brought about by means of the r% } 

 &quot; survival of the fittest &quot; in the &quot; struggle for exist 

 ence.&quot; This made it believable that man was de 

 scended from the same ancestors as the apes. And 

 people who had remained stolidly incurious re 

 garding the evolution of sun, and planets, and the 

 milky way, and the rings of Saturn, and all the 

 choir and furniture of heaven, were startled into 

 wondering and inquisitive interest by Darwin s 

 demonstration of our kinship with the apes. 



