142 Outlook to Nature 



pothesis of evolution merely as a concession to 

 the times. 



Disproof by assumption. 



Questions as to statements of fact being 

 omitted, objections to the criticisms to which I 

 refer are chiefly of two categories. The first 

 and perhaps the most pertinent observation 

 that such statements suggest is that the attacks 

 are made by persons who are not themselves 

 familiar either with the subject-matter of the 

 organic evolution hypothesis or with the nat- 

 ural-history point of view, and that their pur- 

 pose is not so much to discover facts of 

 evolution as to bolster dogmas and traditional 

 beliefs. Now, if the dogmas and beliefs are 

 true and are worth the while, they will stand. 

 They will be their own proofs. It is only 

 falsity that needs to be bolstered. 



This class of refutations is usually founded 

 on assumption, not on reason or investigation. 

 It is an outlook to "belief," not to nature; 

 and yet evolution is a process of nature. Let 

 me read : 



