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mitted to emphasize the fact that when Father 

 Wasmann attempts to expel Darwin from the 

 realm of even modern evolution, he is simply 

 beating the air. All his endeavors in this line, 

 together with the results which are apparent 

 from his work, remind us of the attempts of the 

 modernists to wrest the weapons from the hands 

 of the Biblical critics, but which, alas ! resulted 

 so ignominiously in their own complete capture 

 by the very Egyptians whom they had planned 

 to despoil. In espousing the cause of evolu 

 tion Father Wasmann has but opened the 

 floodgates for that "powerful wave starting 

 from England," which "has assailed us like a 

 deluge," and which must inevitably sweep him 

 indeed, which seems to have already done so 

 from that bold and determined stand which 

 he has nobly though not very logically taken 

 against his third division of Darwinism. Mean 

 while, what constitutes Darwinism must be de 

 termined by what Darwin himself taught and 

 wrote, and in spite of all the efforts and pro 

 tests of Father Wasmann, it will be difficult for 

 him to t show that he is not a disciple of Darwin 

 in the true sense of the term, or, as he himself 



