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"in the theory of evolution." He regards what 

 he calls "the interior factors" as the chief point 

 to consider ; but of these interior factors he 

 admits no one knows anything, and what with 

 their expediency, adaptiveness, etc., etc., it is 

 not easy to distinguish between them and Dar 

 win's "variations which seem to rise spontan 

 eously" ; so that on this point the difference 

 between his views and those of Darwin, which 

 he so indignantly rejects, appear to be the dif 

 ference between tweedledum and tweedledee. 

 Nor in the last analysis do we find so wide a 

 difference between Father Wasmann's theory 

 and Darwin's doctrine of man's descent from 

 beasts, which Father Wasmann finds so objec 

 tionable. Father Wasmann will undoubtedly 

 rebel against all such interpretation of his the 

 ory. But if we understand Father Wasmann 

 rightly, while he rejects the ape as man's an 

 cestor, he substitutes for him a creature which, 

 though not a beast, is not yet a man possibly 

 a species of Caliban. And this brings us to 

 Father Wasmann's own theory of evolution. 

 Before proceeding to an examination of his 

 views on the subject, however, we may be per- 



