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regard it as only an optimism of the most 

 cheerful kind which would find in such a prob 

 ability a solid basis on which to found a great 

 ''science." For outside of the limits which 

 Father Wasmann describes, he is forced to ad 

 mit : "But the higher we ascend in the sys 

 tematic categories, and the more closely we 

 approach the great chief types of the animal 

 world, the scantier becomes the evidence; in 

 fact, it fails so completely that we are finally 

 forced to acknowledge that the assumption of 

 a monophyletic evolution of the whole animal 

 kingdom of organic life is a delightful dream 

 without any scientific support." Hence here 

 in its own special realm, where evolutionists 

 of every school admit that the great principle 

 has absolute sway, we find whole tracts and 

 continents, so to speak, where its existence is 

 but "a delightful dream"; so that even here 

 evolution breaks down seriously. And even 

 accepting this fragmentary evolution within its 

 own special realm to be some slight evidence 

 in favor of the principle, Father Wasmann de 

 clares that when we come down to man, the 

 principle again breaks down irretrievably. 



