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I returned to the strawberries on the knoll, 

 where they lay so innocently in the sun ; and 

 were it not for my friend's suggestion and for 

 the bees fighting in the blossoms, I should 

 have seen no morals in them. It became evi- 

 dent, however, upon reflection, that I had made 

 a grievous fault in my terminology : I had used 

 the word "species"; if I had said "kind," 

 there had been no offense. 



The species bogey. 



It is about this technical word " species " that 

 the battles of evolutionists and theologians 

 have raged for the last quarter-century and 

 more. 



The ancients did not know this species-con- 

 ception, because they knew and cared so little 

 for the external creation that they gave small 

 thought to the kinds of animals and plants. 

 But with the restoration of knowledge, nature 

 came to be more and more intrinsic to man, 

 and persons began to wonder whence and why 

 organisms came. With the attempt to describe 

 or to inventory natural objects, there arose the 



