48 WHAT IS DARWINISM? 



not due to the continued cooperation and con- 

 trol of the divine mind, nor to the original pur- 

 pose of God in the constitution of the universe. 

 This is the doctrine of the Materialists, and to 

 this doctrine, we are sorry to say, Mr. Darwin, 

 although himself a theist, has given in his 

 adhesion. It is on this account the Material- 

 ists almost deify him. 



^om what has been said, it appears that 

 Darwinism includes three distinct elements. 

 First, evolution ; or the assumption that all 

 organic forms, vegetable and animal, have 

 been evolved or developed from one, or a few, 

 primordial living germs ; second, that this 

 evolution has been effected by natural selec- 

 tion, or the survival of the fittest ; and third, 

 and by far the most important and only dis- 

 tinctive element of his theory, that this natural 

 selection is without design, being conducted 

 by unintelligent physical causes. Neither the 

 first nor the second of these elements consti- 

 tute Darwinism ; nor do the two combined. 

 As to the first, namely, evolution, Mr. Darwin 

 himself, in the historical sketch prefixed to the 

 fifth edition of his "Origin of Species," says, 

 that Lamarck, in 1811 and more fully in 1815, 

 " taught that all species, including man, are 



