xviii CONTENTS 



PAGE 



3. Total depravity 198 



4. That all the unregenerate lie under divine anger and are 



everlastingly to be punished 199 



Meanings of deserve 201 



II. Transmission of Acquired Characters 



Weismann's theory and argument 204 



It is not established but may not be disregarded .... 207 

 The transmission of disease makes for a transmission of the 



natural effects of x\dam's sin 207 



But original sin is not an acquired character 211 



Catholic doctrine permits us to combine the evolutionary and 



the theological explanation of sin 212 



III. Concluding Matters 



Traducianism and creationism 213 



Theological necessity of the catholic doctrine of sin resumed . 218 



Its necessity for theodicy 219 



And for an adequate estimate of sin 222 



