It is of great interest, therefore, to note what competent scientists have said about this doctrine.
Dr. Thomas Hunt Morgan, department of science, Columbia University, says:
- Today the theory has few followers among trained investigators, but it still has a popular vogue that is wide-spread and vociferous.
Alfred Russell Wallace, in his "Autobiography," said:
- All the available evidence is opposed to the doctrine of acquired characters.
Prof. William Bateson, in his 1914 Presidential Address before the British Association for the Advancement of Science, said:
- We have done with the notion that Darwin came latterly to favor, that large differences can arise by the accumulation of small differences.
He also remarks that the new knowledge of heredity shows that whatever evolution there is occurs by loss of factors and not by gain, and that in this way the progress of science is
- destroying much that till lately passed for gospel.
And commenting on these remarks of Bateson, Prof. S. C. Holmes, of the University of California, says they are
- an illustration of the bankruptey of the present evolutionary theory.
Then Prof. George McCready Price, department of geology, Pacific Union College, Helena, California, has said very recently:
