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bad enough, but materialistic spiritualism 

 which these assumptions postulate ! ! The 

 simple question : What becomes of the animal 

 soul ? seems to be fatal, from the standpoint of 

 "Christian philosophy," to all speculations that 

 involve the introduction of a new and human 

 soul into a being already endowed with life. 

 For the rest we cannot see how Father Was- 

 mann's speculation can aid Christian philoso 

 phy in an acceptance of evolution, though as a 

 sop to human pride it does palliate to some 

 extent the theories of Mivart and Darwin. 



Proofs of Evolution. 



It has long been a wonder to one portion of 

 humanity that men should permit their imagin 

 ations to run away with their judgments in mat 

 ters scientific, thus involving themselves in in 

 extricable difficulties and perplexities. In the 

 case of evolution at least this is certainly not 

 owing to the overwhelming nature of the proofs. 

 Nor does Father Wasmann claim to give us 

 any new proof of the theory which he espouses. 

 We have looked for them in vain. In dealing 

 with this portion of the theory of evolution 



