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proceedings, their gratitude to the learned Father 

 for all his exertions and explanations, by means of 

 hearty applause.' 



Another non-Catholic paper, the evangelical 

 Christliche Welt (No. 12, March 21st, 1907), reproaches 

 me with having confused religion and science in my 

 lectures. Ernst Teichmann, one of the reporters, 

 declared that I understood by ' science ' only ecclesi- 

 astical dogmas based on scholasticism, but this state- 

 ment was perfectly unjustifiable, 1 as any one would 

 acknowledge, who had either heard or read my 

 Berlin lectures. The following admission of the 

 same reporter seems to me particularly worthy of 

 notice, in comparison with his other statement. 



' Whoever reads the outlines of Wasmann's views 

 on the theory of descent (as given previously in 

 detail by Teichmann), and seriously considers them, 

 must be impressed by the fact that, in the opinion 

 of their advocate, they are one and all based upon 

 the foundation of strictly scientific methods. We 

 may think what we like of their value, but we 

 cannot deny that Wasmann has given an absolutely 

 logical account of his scientific views, in accordance 

 with his own understanding of the matter, and with 

 the means at his disposal. It was impossible there- 

 fore to single out any one of his statements in order 

 to confront it with another, and to reveal any 

 inconsistency between them. Such a line of action 



1 Cf. also the opinion of another Protestant reporter, Dr. M. Senff, who 

 is quoted on p. 253. 



