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natural selection is the means. Evolution is 

 the great door through which all organic life 

 passes in its wonderful variations ; natural 

 selection is the hinge on which the great door 

 swings. Hence we fail to understand how 

 Father Wasmann hopes to separate evolution 

 from the doctrines of Darwin or rid the theory 

 of evolution of the incubus of his name. Even 

 though he may change the factors, the pro 

 duct will be the same; though he may invent 

 new means of evolution, the result will be evo 

 lution still; to Darwin rightly belongs organic 

 evolution's whole realm. 



Nevertheless Father Wasmann makes a des 

 perate effort, and for this purpose, somewhat 

 capriciously, we think, enumerates four differ 

 ent classes of Darwinism, each of which in turn 

 he rejects as properly representing the true idea 

 of evolution. Let us glance briefly at these 

 four divisions by Father Wasmann. His first 

 division of Darwinism is what he calls "Dar 

 winism in the narrower sense," which briefly 

 means evolution "by way only of natural selec 

 tion." That this was the theory of Darwin is 

 to some extent true, as we have just seen; but 



