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volume on Epigenesis he does not conceal 

 his contempt for the Darwinian theory by 

 Natural Selection, and similar repudia- 

 tions of it are reported with each succeed- 

 ing year. Thus Professor Von Hart- 

 mann says, " that in the first decade of the 

 twentieth century it has become apparent 

 that the days of Darwinism are numbered. 

 Among its latest opponents, besides many 

 others, are such savants as Eimer, Pro- 

 fessor of Zoology in the University of 

 Tubingen; Gustave Wolff; De Vries, Pro- 

 fessor of Botany in the University of Am- 

 sterdam ; Hooche, and Fleischmann. Pro- 

 fessor Fleischmann of the University of 

 Erlangen maintains that the Darwinian 

 theory of descent has not a single fact to 

 confirm it in the realm of Nature, that it 

 is not the result of scientific research but 

 purely the product of the imagination." 

 Professor G. Henslow, F.R.S.,* says: 



* XIX Century and After Magazine, November, 1906, 

 p. 795. 16 



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