(CONTBIDUTBD ) Thhbr in mnoh talk nowadays about the dootrineof Bvolulion. We hoar of it being mentioned both in the pulpit and the Press. As a rulo it is generally spoken of adversely, especially by extromo orthodox people who h»vo not atudiod tbe eubjaofc firsthand from the works o£ leading ex ponents of tha theory, but who arc generally indebted ! or n hat knowledge thoy do possess of it from bitter and prejudiced opponents of. the theory. Onlj lately Mr liobert Roberts of Birmingham, England, who was touring the oolonioa looturiog on Biblicil subjects, wferrod to evolution ns a dootriue f&it on the waDO, as Darwinism failed to account for many faots that had to bo con sidered. That Darwinism oan account for all things, oxplain alt faofcs, lias noror boon assumed by the ablcsband matt onthusiaotio of ovolntioniita. Mo one was more alive to its shortcomings than Ohas. Darwin him •elf, no one listened moiro attentively to objections against tho theory than he did. It was not bo much valid objections ngiwst tha theory, as tha misconceptions of its opponents regarding tho doctrino, that Darwin had to contond against. A notion prevails Tory muoh at present that evolution and Darwinism aro the oame thing t but thin is a Rif at error. Evolution was thought of long before Cbarino Darwin was born : evolutionary idcis prevailed aniongifc fho Greek philosophers, notably in tho works of liunretius, Kmpodoolro, and, in later (iniao, in the works of Gottho, Buffon, JUrowok, Geoffray Bt. Uilairo, and Etasmui Darwin ; io that wo «co that Charles Darwin is in nowise responsible for the origin of thoidoa of evolution. Darwin's pnrb has boon to supplement that conception by the addtioa of the theory of natural selection wbioh was worked out independently by himself and another ominent naturahst.RuaseU Wallace. Darwin has been honored by the doctrino of natural (ejection being designated Dm-, wintstn, JBussoll Wallace generoualy giving way to Daririu'o priority in the cnunoiotion of tho principle. Sinoe the Sttb edition of "Tho Origin of Bpecies" Darwin has rather roooded from tho poaition talan up in that work, nnd has admittod that he probably attaobod too muoh importanoo to natural leleotion as a footor in orgunto oTolution ; iufc Wallace, on tha otbor hand, hue gono further than Darwin, and claims that natural roleotion is exoluoivoly the only factor in tho transmutation of species. 