with some ostentation tells us Haeckel has al 

 ready styled him, "a Darwinian Jesuit." 



Theistic Evolution. 



Although in his preface Father Wasmann 

 tells us that the motive of his lectures was that 

 he aimed "at throwing light upon the impor 

 tant question, What are we to think of the 

 doctrine of evolution?' " and although he re 

 peats this in his first lecture when he tells his 

 audience, "I only wish to throw some real light 

 on the subject, trusting in this way to do a good 

 work," we confess to some difficulty in fully 

 ascertaining Father Wasmann's exact views on 

 some important points. More than once he 

 rides right gallantly up to the ranks of the 

 evolutionists, and when we expect to find him 

 registering as an enthusiastic recruit, we are 

 surprised to find him backing away in a sort of 

 awkward fashion, and his words have not the 

 ring of enthusiasm we might expect to find in 

 those of a newly enlisted soldier. Then, too, we 

 find some difficulty in grasping the manner in 

 which he endeavors to couple together the the 

 ory of creation and the great universal principle 



