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ation is ever furnished with a ready supply. -No 

 one among the original expounders of the 

 famous hypothesis seems to have taken him at 

 all seriously. Its great English-speaking chiefs 

 were wont to smile benignantly on his extrav 

 agances of statement. The extraordinary proofs 

 brought forward from time to time by the pre 

 posterous Jena professor were regarded with 

 amusement and wonder rather that with anger 

 or alarm; and it is now somewhat surprising to 

 find his countrymen in his old age taking him 

 seriously as an exponent of the moribund hy 

 pothesis. But that this is so is beyond question, 

 and the most convincing proof of the strange 

 fact is a somewhat curious volume that comes 

 to us all the way from Berlin, entitled "The 

 Problem of Evolution, by Erich Wasmann,S.J." 



Lectures and Discussion. 



It would appear that Father Wasmann had 

 already published a book on "Modern Biology 

 and the Theory of Evolution." In a series of 

 lectures delivered at Berlin by the Jena pro 

 fessor, he frequently referred to Father Was- 

 mann's book. Indeed, Father Wasmann tells 



