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it is not the whole truth. Darwin at first main 

 tained that natural selection was not only the 

 chief factor, but he seems to have long thought 

 that it was the only one. That he afterwards 

 admitted other factors, and that later he be 

 lieved he had overrated the importance of nat 

 ural selection, is certain. In the words from 

 the introduction to one of the later editions of 

 his works which I have already quoted, he 

 expressly says he regarded natural selection an 

 important, "but not the exclusive means of 

 modification." Indeed, Father Wasmann him 

 self in a note tells us that besides natural 

 selection Darwin admitted "direct adaptation, 

 correlation, compensation, etc.," as factors of 

 evolution. Consequently it seems to us some 

 what arbitrary on the part of Father Wasmann 

 to rule Darwin so cavalierly out of all his 

 original titles-deeds and letters patent in the 

 realm of evolution. On the same grounds 

 every upstart evolutionist would be fully justi 

 fied in extruding Father Wasmann from all 

 his evolutional claims. 



In Father Wasmann's second division of 

 Darwinism he tells us that "In the wider sense, 



