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with advantage have referred to the third 

 edition of my book on Biology and the, Theory 

 of Evolution, pp. 303 et seq., and he would 

 there have found that the natural types are 

 identical with the evolution series or pedigrees 

 of the theory of descent, and their number, 

 extent, and form are the subject of further biolo 

 gical research. The conceptions therefore are 

 quite natural and by no means supernatural. 

 He might also have found without trouble 

 that, when he ascribes to me the idea that God 

 created the primitive ant, ammonite, and horse, 

 he is really speaking of the products of his 

 own imagination. Finally, he would then not 

 have confounded, as he has done, the theory of 

 permanence with that of creation. In the book 

 to which I have referred, as well as in my first 

 two lectures, I showed plainly enough to 

 convince all who were willing to understand 

 me, that the theories of creation and evolution 

 are not incompatible, but they harmonise 

 and complete each other. It would be a 

 difficult matter to find in any work of mine 

 any attempt to solve the problems of 

 zoology by means of metaphysical phrases. 

 I may refer also to the passage in my 

 closing address in which I alluded to this 

 subject. 



The speaker went on to ask how Father Wasmann 



