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seems to us to out-Darwin Darwin himself. 

 Here are a few points of resemblance on the 

 essential features of the doctrine: (1) Darwin 

 maintains that the theory of evolution is oper 

 ative throughout all organic nature. Father 

 Wasmann, if we understand him rightly, main 

 tains the same, and proceeds even further, for 

 he extends the principle not only to inorganic 

 nature, but to the development of the cosmos. 

 In this he far outstrips Darwin and is to some 

 extent abreast of Herbert Spencer and Ernest 

 Haeckel. (2) Father Wasmann rejects mono- 

 phyletic evolution, whether applied to the 

 whole kingdom of organic life or to "the whole 

 animal kingdom on the one hand," and to "the 

 whole vegetable kingdom on the other, as de 

 rived from one primary form." He seems to 

 believe, however, in a polyphyletic evolution ; 

 that is the theory of "development from a var 

 iety of stocks." Darwin to the last believed in 

 polyphyletic evolution as opposed to monophy- 

 letic. He discusses the question freely, and 

 tells us "I cannot doubt that the theory of de 

 scent with modification embraces all the mem 

 bers of the same great class or kingdom. I 



