statement, that "Darwinism and the doctrine of \ 

 evolution are not equivalent ideas." He even attrib- 1 

 utes to Darwinism "a Darwinian theory of the; 

 universe." He attempts to establish the dis 

 tinction by telling us that evolution, "which is 

 wider and more general, connotes the doctrinl 

 of the derivation of all forms of life from earlier 

 and simpler forms, whereas Darwinism deals 

 with the origin of the organic species by way 

 only of natural selection^ and is therefore a special 

 branch of the doctrine of evolution." And 

 lastly, Father Wasmann enumerates what he 

 calls four different significations of the term 

 Darwinism, and takes considerable pains to 

 show that none of these is identical with the 

 theory of evolution. 



Now, nothing could be more misleading, and 

 in some instances farther from the truth, than 

 Father Wasmann's contention under this head. 

 Indeed, on reading it one begins to wonder 

 whether Father Wasmann is, after all, at all 

 acquainted with what Darwin wrote on the 

 subject of evolution. The real truth in the 

 matter is that Darwin is the real father and 

 founder of the theory. It was Darwin and Dar- 



