sed almost beyond all expectation
the evidence for the =fact= of evolution.

Prof. S. C. Schmucker, of the West Chester, Pennsylvania, State Normal
School, in his book, "The Meaning of Evolution," says:

Among students of animals and plants there is no longer any
question as to the =truth= of evolution. That the animals of
the present are the altered animals of the past, that the
plants of today are the modified plants of yesterday, that
civilized man of today is the savage of yesterday and the
tree dweller of the day before, is no longer debatable to
the mass of biologists.

Professor Fish, then of Denison University, Granville, Ohio, not long ago
dictated to his class, of which the writer's daughter was a member, the
following statement:

Organic evolution is the key to all biological thinking of
today. It is not a =theory= but a =fact=, because the main
facts are true. Man is the off-spring of the lower animals,
and the ancestry can be traced back to the simplest forms
of animals known. All medical research takes that fact into
account.

Prof. S. W. Williston, department of paleontology, University of Chicago,
says:

I know of no biologist, whether of high or low degree,
master or tyro, who ventures to suggest a doubt as to the
fundamental truths of organic evolution.

Prof. William Patten, department of biology and zoology, Dartmouth College,
says:

Evolution is the accepted doctrine of the natural sciences
to the extent that it has long ceased to be a subject of
debate in standard scientific journals or in organized
conferences of men of science.

Prof. Charles B. Davenport, department of experimental evolution, Carnegie
Institute, Washington, D. C., says:

I do not know of a single modern scientific
man who does not believe in evolution.

And Prof. Frank R. Lillie, department of embryology, University of Chicago,
says:

I feel pretty impatient over the statements of certain
religious teachers that evolution has collapsed.

These statements are sufficiently representative to indicate the attitude
toward the theory of evolution of a great section of the scientific world
today, including many science teachers in schools founded and endowed by
the Church for the giving of Christian education.

But it is not true that the theory is universally accepted or even
scientifically proved to be a fact. Let