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in this view of life, with its several powers, 

 having been originally breathed by the Creator 

 into a few forms or into one" all showing that 

 to the end he was a believer in creation. In 

 deed, Father Wasmann himself quotes this 

 last passage to show that Darwin was a believ 

 er in a theistic evolution, and how he can at 

 the same time endeavor to link his name with 

 monism and materialism, and assert that he 

 sanctioned the notion that ''the whole world 

 has come into existence without a creator and 

 through merely mechanical causes," is an 

 anomaly which it is difficult to account for 

 unless on the ground of the inevitable incon 

 sistency which seems to dog the footsteps of 

 the Catholic evolutionist. However this may 

 be, there is no doubt that it is a wholly unfound 

 ed calumny to attribute to Darwin a mechanic 

 al theory of the universe or the belief that "the 

 whole world came into existence without a 

 Creator." Herbert Spencer was the author of 

 these views Darwin, never. 



Father Wasmann tells us: "The third way 

 in which the word Darwinism is used, popu 

 larly, is to designate the application to man of 



