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"This confusion of ideas has" done much harm 

 in many ways. If, for instance, a serious stu 

 dent, engaged in scientific research, finds in 

 his special department what he regards as evi 

 dence of the development of species, he is at 

 once called a Darwinist, and as such is assail 

 ed by another party." Father Wasmann nat 

 urally chafes under this classification as unjust, 

 and naturally tries to remedy the injustice. 

 But as long as he accepts the theory of evolu 

 tion we do not see how his position can be 

 amended. He may differ from Darwin on a 

 few minor points, but the world at large, as we 

 have seen, must class him simply as a follower 

 of Darwin. The name of Darwin is as insep 

 arably interwoven with the theory of evolution 

 as is the name of La Place with the nebular 

 hypothesis or the name of Comte with the pos 

 itive philosophy. Darwin has been the first on 

 the field, has been the first to map out the 

 territory of the broad generalization, and hence 

 forth and forever has the legitimate right to 

 claim it as liis own. The claim of Christopher 

 Columbus to the discovery of the new world 

 was not more valid than Darwin's claim to the 



