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part of natural science, and wished to guard their 

 students from similar deviations." 3 



We can understand what a sensation Darwin's 

 "The Origin of Species," published in 1859, must have 

 created in those circles. 



3 The Evolution Theory, translated by J. A. and M. R. Thomson. Vol. 

 I, p. 27-28. 



