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a firm believer in its efficacy ; and, getting a 

 fresh field with its new start in organic nature, 

 he gives it full sweep through this vast realm ; 

 for is not this its own home, wherein he first 

 suspected its existence the field of its energy, 

 its industry, its efficacy the scene of its own 

 special triumphs and demonstrable victories ? 

 Throughout this whole realm it has universal 

 sway. Si monumentum quaeris, circumspice. Well, 

 what do we find? Let Father Wasmann an 

 swer in behalf of his great principle, of whose 

 "laws" and "interior causes" and "internal 

 factors" he talks grandiloquently, although he 

 admits that he knows absolutely nothing about 

 them. " In the case," he tells us, "of the same 

 genus, the genera of the same family, and of 

 ten for the families of the same order, even for 

 the orders of the same class, the probability is 

 in support of evolution." Now, when it is re 

 membered that in coming down the history of 

 matter from its first creation to our own time, 

 this is the first trace we find of the great uni 

 versal principle, and that this vestige is mere 

 probability, and that this probability is confined 

 to the lower forms of organic matter, we must 



