WHAT IS PHYSICAL LIFE 



But we need not weary the reader with 

 more of such citations, or with long lists 

 of the names of authorities, which, how- 

 ever well known to students of biological 

 literature, to the general reader would con- 

 vey as little information as they would 

 to a Chinaman. All we would remark is 

 that these criticisms of Darwinism do not 

 come from amateurs^ but from qualified 

 experts. It is to be regretted that some 

 of them, especially in Germany, show that 

 there can be as acrid an odium scientificum 

 as ever there was an odium theologicum, 

 for one professor intimates that there can 

 be no Darwinian except he be afflicted with 

 a congenital inability to think clearly, 

 while another says that a believer in nat- 

 ural selection must have softening of the 

 brain. 



The chief credit which historically will 

 attach to the name of Charles Darwin is 

 that more than any one else in our times 

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