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to think there can be no evolution without 

 progress. Advance is essential to the doctrine. 

 Thus in his attempted differentiation of Dar 

 winism from evolution, he tells us that evolution 

 " connotes the doctrine of the derivation of all 

 forms of life from earlier and simpler forms." 

 In his third lecture he says: " It is essential to 

 the very nature of evolution to advance from 

 what is simple to what is complex." Following 

 Hertwig, he has told us: " As this process 

 continues, the corresponding new generation 

 must advance somewhat further than its imme 

 diate predecessor"; and still again he says: 

 " The more highly any animal is organized, the 

 more stages of development must it pass through 

 before reaching the complex final stage." 

 Hence there is no doubt whatever that at least 

 Father Wasmann's evolution includes the no 

 tion of advance or progress from the simple to 

 the complex or from a low state of organization 

 to a high one. 



Now, few things are more certain than that 

 such a notion is wholly incompatible with the 

 facts of paleontology. Indeed, it is surprising 

 in the extreme how prone evolutionists gener- 



