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the independence of man of the brute creation. 

 He claims rightly that with regard to the whole 

 man and the whole man is body and soul unit 

 ed zoology alone is not capable of giving an 

 adequate answer to the question of his origin. 

 He truthfully says that in investigating the 

 origin of man, the chief question is: Whence 

 comes his higher part? not: Whence conies his 

 lower part? and yet, in spite of all this, it is 

 difficult to see that Father Wasmann's theory 

 of the evolution of man is at all an advance on 

 the theory of his descent from beasts. For 

 Father Wasmann seems to have a theory of 

 his own of the evolution of man. Indeed he 

 asks the question : "May this theory (evolution] be 

 applied to man, and if so, in what degree?" And 

 this is how he answers it: "I wish to state def 

 initely, before discussing the matter, that we 

 are not concerned with the application to man 

 of Darwin's theory of evolution, for I showed 

 in my last lecture that I was unable to accept 

 that. But he immediately adds, "We may 

 apply the theory of evolution to man, and still 

 have as foundation the principles of Christian 

 philosophy and of the Christian theory of life." 



