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the Darwinian theory of selection. Man is 

 assumed to be the animal most highly bred in 

 the course of the struggle for existence, and 

 nothing else," and here at least Father Was- 

 mann does not make the mistake of attributing 

 to Darwin views which he never professed. 

 Indeed, this is the great lapis offensionis of 

 Charles Darwin's hypothesis ; and perhaps we 

 should not be surprised to find evolutionists, 

 by fair means or by foul, attempting to divorce 

 evolution from this stupid theory. Father 

 Wasmann here at least is guilty of no calumny 

 on the memory of Darwin. He only makes 

 the mistake of saying that the term Darwinism 

 is used "popularly" in this sense. It is used 

 not only "popularly," but scientifically in this 

 sense, and Darwin himself labored hard to 

 make it a tenet of science. Indeed, Father 

 Wasmann himself, while he indignantly refers 

 to it, is not so far removed in his evolution 

 from this theory. But to Father Wasmann's 

 relation to this division we shall return later. 

 "Fourthly and lastly," says Father Wasmann, 

 "the name of Darwinism is applied in a gen 

 eral way to the theory of evolution, as I remarked 



