very pinnacles of the rock. It is true that this 

 wave no longer bears the name of Darwin and 

 of the Darwinian system in the narrower sense, 

 but it is the theory of evolution which .... 

 has hitherto been victorious in the strife, and 

 will probably remain so to the end." It is not 

 a little singular, after all that Father Wasmann 

 has written to show that evolution has nothing 

 in common with Darwinism, to find him now 

 speaking of that same evolution as the mighty 

 and "powerful wave, starting from England in 

 1859," which "has assailed us like a deluge," 

 and which, having "hitherto been victorious in 

 the strife (?), will probably remain so to the 

 end." The incongruity of statement is explic 

 able only by the usual inconsistency of the 

 Catholic evolutionist. 



Views of Darwin and Father Wasmann Compared. 



Indeed, in spite of all his ostentatious rejec 

 tion of Darwinism, there is a remarkable resem 

 blance between Father Wasmann's evolution 

 and that of Darwin a resemblance so striking 

 as to suggest relationship ; and on some points 

 where there is dissimilarity Father Wasmann 



