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realm such as it is of evolution. Indeed, 

 Father Wasmann himself seems to be all the 

 while unwittingly conscious of all this ; for 

 while he is laboring so hard towards the ex 

 trusion of Darwin, at the close of his third lec 

 ture he actually proceeds to an apotheosis of 

 evolution, with Darwin as its creator. He 

 compares Christianity to a rock around whose 

 base the waves of science are breaking. Al 

 though the wave of science was successful in 

 the case of Copernicanism, the rock stands 

 firm, and he thinks it will be the same in the 

 present instance. A wave had again, like the 

 Ptolemaic system, "rested in long-continued 

 peace at the foot of the rock" of Christianity. 

 But "the new wave came, and it will probably 

 be victorious in the conflict now raging be 

 tween it and the old." This wave is evolution, 

 and its mover is Darwin. He tells us in spite 

 of his attempts at Darwin's extrusion "In 

 1859" (the year in which Darwin first publish 

 ed "The Origin of Species") came the moment 

 when a powerful wave, starting from England, 

 assailed us like a deluge. It increased in 

 strength and power until the foam flecked the 



