176 THE PROBLEM OF EVOLUTION 



upon the necessity of labouring in this field of 

 work, for the benefit of our contemporaries and 

 of our posterity.' 



Dr. Juliusburger does not seem to me to be 

 quite consistent here. Darwinism and monism, 

 if applied logically to man, would inevitably 

 lead to the extermination of the 'unfit,' with 

 all their possibilities of action, as being of less 

 value and prejudicial to the successful breeding 

 of a future race. This extermination would be 

 ' giving free play to evolution,' but we must 

 compare with it once more the noble law 

 of Christian love towards one's neighbour. 



IX. DR'. PLOTZ'S SPEECH. 



This speaker expressed his intention of discussing 

 the descent of man from beasts. Father Wasmann 

 had, he said, brought forward two arguments 

 against it the first being that man possesses a 

 special kind of soul, peculiar to himself. This 

 argument having been already refuted by another 

 speaker, 1 Dr. Plotz did not think it necessary to do 

 more than allude to it, but dealt more fully with 

 Father Wasmann's second point, viz. that we must 

 assume a special creation in the case of man. This 



1 Cf. Dr. Juliusburger's speech and my remarks upon it. 



