know what conclusion to come to regarding a naturalist 

 and University professor who can commit himself to such 

 a contradiction. I shall abstain from any comment and 

 let the reader form his own judgment. 



Does this article betoken the death-bed of Darwinism? 

 For my own part I repeat what I said above, that I con- 

 sider it the most valuable contribution to the characteri- 

 zation of decadent Darwinism that has appeared up to the 

 present time. The sooner a theory, which is thus treated and 

 characterized by one of its own advocates, is stored away 

 in the lumber-room of science, the better. In view of the 

 sound judgment, which is to-day becoming more and more 

 apparent in scientific circles, there is reason to hope that 

 this article of Professor von Wagner will be additional in- 

 centive for many naturalists to break completely with Dar- 

 winism. 



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