"Bless you, no! My dear sir, there is nothing new.

Epicurus and Lucretius outlined the whole Darwinian theory more than two thousand years ago.

As for this eponym thing, why Saint Augustine called attention to it fifteen hundred years ago.

In his 'De Civitate Dei,' he expressly says of these genealogical names, 'GENTES NON HOMINES;' that is, 'peoples, not persons.' It was as obvious to him--as much a commonplace of knowledge--as it was to Ezekiel eight hundred years before him." "It seems passing strange that we should not know it now, then," commented Theron; "I mean, that everybody shouldn't know it." Father Forbes gave a little purring chuckle.

"Ah, there we get upon contentious ground," he remarked.