ourselves were, we think, the first to call 

 attention in this Review to the fact that 

 the creation of species as species is not a 

 dogma of religion at all, but a doctrine of 

 science; 1 and if scientists are not yet prepared 

 to define clearly the lines of separation beyond 

 which organisms do not pass and become new 

 established species, the fault is the fault of sci 

 ence. Indeed, viewed in this way, evolution 

 seems to be but an expression to cover our 

 ignorance and shield our indolence. Various 

 definitions have been given to the term spe 

 cies ; but as Darwin has remarked, "No one 

 definition has satisfied all naturalists." Dar 

 win thinks the term includes the unknown 

 element of a distinct act of creation;" but it 

 should be remembered that it is science which 

 has assigned this meaning to it ; not religion. 

 The confusion over the lines of demarcation in 

 the lower forms of life is among the scientists 

 themselves; and it is science and not religion 

 which is interested in the "characteristic 

 marks" and physiological "development" of 



i Linnaeus was the first to formulate the doctrine in his stately 

 phrase : Species tot sunt quot diversas ab initio produxit Infinitum EUS. 



