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win alone who gave to the doctrine even in 

 the sense in which Father Wasmann accepts it 

 a local habitation and a name. It is true that 

 the subject was first broached by Lamarck, that 

 Erasmus Darwin, the grandfather of the famous 

 founder of the evolution school, and Geoffrey 

 St. Hilaire had also speculated along the line of 

 the famous theory; but the theory was either 

 scorned, or ridiculed, or ignored, or abandoned 

 until the "Origin of Species, by Charles Dar 

 win," raised the extraordinary commotion in the 

 scientific world. In saying this we are not over 

 looking the part played by Mr. Wallace, but 

 Mr. Wallace himself has joined the rest of the 

 world in according whatever honor belongs to 

 the authorship of the invention to Darwin. 

 Whatever credit or discredit attaches to the 

 creation of the theory of evolution belongs to 

 Darwin and to Darwin alone, and all endeavor 

 to wrest from him the glory (?) of the invention 

 must be regarded as the bold and daring 

 attempt of piracy or usurpation. This is so 

 obvious that it is surprising to hear Father 

 Wasmann question it. The concluding words 

 of Darwin's introduction to his famous "Origin 



