posed to be actively at work in the develop 

 ment of this matter whatever that means ; 

 Father Wasmann or no one else understands 

 down to the time when this matter is ready 

 for the introduction of life. Here suddenly it 

 halts, breaks down completely, indeed so com 

 pletely that Father Wasmann is forced to in 

 troduce "a so-called act of creation," as he 

 styles it, to account for the origin of life, and 

 by the intervention of this new auxiliary, evo 

 lution starts in again with fresh courage and 

 and attempts a renewal of its operations. It 

 must be remembered, however, that up to this 

 point the existence of evolution and its labors 

 in the development of matter is purely conject 

 ural and without the slightest shadow of rea 

 son; that it now is and ever will remain as in 

 capable of proof as it is of disproof; and that 

 when we come down to the beginning of life on 

 the globe this conjecture breaks down com 

 pletely. Even after its new start with the cre 

 ation of life on the globe we fail to find that 

 Father Wasmann has proved it to be univer 

 sal ; it is far from it. But the evolutionist, 

 still confident, clings to his theory and is still 



