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when he tries to oppose it to Darwinism and 

 tells us that the former, as distinguished from 

 the latter, * 'connotes the doctrine of the deri 

 vation of all forms of life from earlier and sim 

 pler forms." All Darwin's industrious re 

 searches, all his reflections on the mutual affin 

 ities and resemblances of organic beings, on 

 their embryological relations, their geographical 

 distribution, their geological succession, tended 

 to one single purpose, viz., to show that the 

 perfection of structure and coadaptation of the 

 innumerable species which inhabit our globe, 

 have all been brought about by the simple 

 principle of descent with modification in other 

 words, by the principle of evolution. Hence 

 all other evolutionists are but followers or 

 borrowers of Darwin's broad generalization ; 

 and it is somewhat amusing to read Father 

 Wasmann's attempts to rule him out of the 

 school of evolution altogether. Towards the 

 close of one of the later editions of "The Origin 

 of Species" Darwin wrote many years before 

 Father Wasmann dreamed of evolution, we 

 surmise "I formerly spoke to very many nat 

 uralists on the subject of evolution, and never 



