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F1062 Book: Darwin, C. R. 1891. La descendance de l'homme et la sélection sexuelle. Trans. by Edmond Barbier. Preface by Carl Vogt. Paris: C. Reinwald. Text Image PDF

; doubee mue dans GroW.'noTnidification des, 498. Gratiolet, professeur, sur les singes anthropomorphef, 167; sur leur évolution, 194; sur les cerveaxx humains, 220-224. Graveurs, sont myope,, 32. GposLAÎ91gradati011 dœ eSPèCeS de C°m GIFy' LE' vert,èbres saudales des singcs' . 59; présence de rudiments de cornes chez la femelle du Cervutus moschatus. 553; sur les cornes des chèvres et des mouton,, 553; barbe de l'ibex, 582; chèvres de Berbura, 584; différences sexueles dans la coloratio; des

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F1062 Book: Darwin, C. R. 1891. La descendance de l'homme et la sélection sexuelle. Trans. by Edmond Barbier. Preface by Carl Vogt. Paris: C. Reinwald. Text Image PDF

. Ophidiens, différences sexuelles, 3S6. Opossum, vasee d1Stribut,on en Amérique, OPTerQteEd'e œii tor°Phie pr°V°qUée par '* Orpang-outa°ng, 6i4i concordance de son cerveuu avec celui de l'homme, reconnue par Bischoff, 2; âge adulte de 1', 5 ; ses oreilles 11; appendice vermiforme, ^ntX^jeX— cSïa nuit de feuilles de Pandanus, 87; ses main,, 49; absence d'apophyses mastoïdes, 53 ; direction des poils sur les bras, 104 ; caractères aberrantl, 167-168; évolution supposée de 1', 191; sa voix, 57S; hable

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A268 Book: Holder, Charles Frederick. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life and work. New York: G. P. Putnam's sons. Text Image PDF

CHAPTER XVIII. DARWINISM. The Coining of the Word—What it Means—Its Relation to Evolution — The Survival of the Fittest — The Struggle for Existence —The Descent—Examples of Evolution. THE scientific labours of Darwin have resulted in the addition of a new word — Darwinism — to the English language,— indeed, to that of the world. Literally, Darwinism is Charles Darwin's explanation of the law or method of evolution. To enable the reader to obtain a clear understanding of what was, in reality

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A268 Book: Holder, Charles Frederick. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life and work. New York: G. P. Putnam's sons. Text Image PDF

interesting sequences of facts had been discovered in the realm of human history. In the realm of biology, in plant and animal life, the order of succession of facts, the method of evolution, had not been discovered; yet many men were thinking on the subject, many men searching for the method and course of biologic evolution. The facts relating thereto were partly known, and the course and laws of biologic evolution were dimly discerned. It remained for Darwin to demonstrate the laws of

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A268 Book: Holder, Charles Frederick. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life and work. New York: G. P. Putnam's sons. Text Image PDF

CHAPTER XVIII PAGE DARWINISM 167 The Coining of the Word—What it Means—Its Relation to Evolution— The Survival of the Fittest — The Struggle for Existence —The Descent—Examples of Evolution. CHAPTER XIX. DARWINISM CONTINUED 183 How Change is Produced—Vast Eras of Time—The Age of the Earth—Evidences of Evolution—Extinct Animals. CHAPTER XX. THE DARWIN MEMORIAL 195 Addresses by American Scientists: Dr. Theodore Gill—W. H. Dall—Major John W. Powell—Richard Rathbun— Charles V. Riley—Lester F. Ward

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A268 Book: Holder, Charles Frederick. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life and work. New York: G. P. Putnam's sons. Text Image PDF

. Lankester. Mind in the Lower Animals (London, 1879). Lindsay. Animal Intelligence. G. J. Romanes. The Fertilisation of Flowers (Transl., London, 1883, 669 pp.). Hermann Müller. Inquiries into Human Faculty and its Development. Francis Galton. Philosophical Discussions. Chauncey Wright. On the Philosophic Aspects of Darwinism. G. H. Schneider: Der Thierischen Wille (xx. and 447 pp., Leipzig, 1880). The Theory of Evolution of Living Things, and the Application of the Principle of Evolution to

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F1461 Book: Darwin, Francis ed. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life told in an autobiographical chapter, and in a selected series of his published letters [abridged edition]. London: John Murray. Text Image PDF

WRIGHT. Wright, Chauncey, article against Mivart's 'Genesis of Species,' 275, 276. Writing, manner of, 50, 97-99. ZACHARIAS, DR., OTTO, letter to, on the theory of evolution, 166. ZOOLOGY Zoology, lectures on, in Edinburgh, 14. 'Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle,' arrangements for publishing the, 143; Government grant obtained for the, 144; publication of the, 31, 32. THE END. LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED, STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS. [page 349

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A268 Book: Holder, Charles Frederick. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life and work. New York: G. P. Putnam's sons. Text Image PDF

moves by steps of generations in endless circles— that what has been is, and what is shall be, and there is no progress, the gift of science to man would have been worthless. The revelation of science is this: Every generation in life is a step in progress to a higher and fuller life; science has discovered hope. Darwin demonstrated what others vaguely believed or dimly saw—the course and methods of biologic evolution. Darwin gave hope to philosophy. The universe of phenomena may be classed in

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F1461 Book: Darwin, Francis ed. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life told in an autobiographical chapter, and in a selected series of his published letters [abridged edition]. London: John Murray. Text Image PDF

Darwin, was in fact an anticipator of Lamarck, and not of Charles Darwin; there is no trace in his works of the conception by the addition of which his grandson metamorphosed the theory of evolution as applied to living things, and gave it a new foundation. On the whole it seems to me that the effect on his mind of the earlier evolutionists was inappreciable, and as far as concerns the history of the Origin of the Species, it is of no particular importance, because, as before said, evolution

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F1461 Book: Darwin, Francis ed. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life told in an autobiographical chapter, and in a selected series of his published letters [abridged edition]. London: John Murray. Text Image PDF

results, he says that it has force and suggestiveness, and . . . systematising power of Oken without his extravagance. Mr. Huxley also testifies to the value of Haeckel's Sch pfungs-Geschichte as an exposition of the Generelle Morphologie for an educated public. Again, in his Evolution in Biology,* Mr. Huxley wrote: Whatever hesitation may not unfrequently be felt by less daring minds, in following Haeckel in many of his speculations, his attempt to systematise the doctrine of Evolution and to

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A268 Book: Holder, Charles Frederick. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life and work. New York: G. P. Putnam's sons. Text Image PDF

theory finding at this time a brilliant advocate in Harvey, who is better known as the discoverer of the circulation of the blood. In the early part of the eighteenth century many naturalists combated Harvey and the theory of his day, and the term evolution was adopted as defining the belief of such naturalists as Bonnet, who claimed that in life nothing really new was created, but that there was an expansion or growth from the invisible to the visible; an unfolding, as in the growth of a

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A268 Book: Holder, Charles Frederick. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life and work. New York: G. P. Putnam's sons. Text Image PDF

. Humboldt now affirmed his belief that species are not immutable, and following came Owen, Asa Gray, Herbert Spencer, Youmans, and many more who had thought upon evolution and believed in it in some form. It will be seen, then, that evolution as a theory is not of recent origin, but was discussed pro and con until the time described in a previous chapter, when Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace came out simultaneously with their views on the subject; then Darwinism was born, and in it we find our hero's

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A268 Book: Holder, Charles Frederick. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life and work. New York: G. P. Putnam's sons. Text Image PDF

naturalist at the commencement of the century—Lamarck—boldly and wisely formulated a theory of evolution; the Vestiges of Creation took up the view, and gained marked attention in Britain. Even a clergyman of the English Church, the Savilian professor in orthodox Oxford, the Rev. Baden Powell, in 1855, had considered the Philosophy of Creation in a masterly manner, and Darwin bore testimony that nothing can be more striking than the manner in which the enlightened priest showed that the introduction

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A268 Book: Holder, Charles Frederick. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life and work. New York: G. P. Putnam's sons. Text Image PDF

hand, Creation was the rallying cry; on the other, Evolution and Darwin. But what meant the opposed terms? It is surely but reasonable to ask the question. The evolutionists conceded the reasonableness, and gladly accepted the ordeal. Could less be required of the creationists? In reverential mood would I submit the alternatives. If they repel, blame not me. I have long and fruitlessly searched for better. Creation implies the actual fashioning of forms in full panoply, and with all the

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F1461 Book: Darwin, Francis ed. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life told in an autobiographical chapter, and in a selected series of his published letters [abridged edition]. London: John Murray. Text Image PDF

only on the supposition that species gradually become modified. He goes on to say that the subject haunted him ; and I think it is especially worthy of note that this haunting, this unsatisfied dwelling on the subject was connected with the desire to explain how species can be modified. It was characteristic of him to feel, as he did, that it was almost useless to endeavour to prove the general truth of evolution, unless the cause of change could be discovered. I think that throughout his life

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F1461 Book: Darwin, Francis ed. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life told in an autobiographical chapter, and in a selected series of his published letters [abridged edition]. London: John Murray. Text Image PDF

evolution. It does not give us a true index of the mass of conjecture which was taking shape in his mind, but it shows us that he felt sure enough of the truth of his belief to allow a stronger tinge of evolution to appear in the second edition. He had mentioned in the Autobiography (p. 40), that it was not until he read Malthus that he got a clear view of the potency of natural selection. This was in 1838 a year after he finished the first edition (it was not published until 1839), and seven years

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A268 Book: Holder, Charles Frederick. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life and work. New York: G. P. Putnam's sons. Text Image PDF

DIAGRAM ILLUSTRATING THE EVOLUTION OF THE HORSE 62 THE PATAGONIAN CAVY—From Brehm's Natural History 74 THE CAPYBARA—From Brehm's Natural History 76 DARWIN SHOOTING AT A CONDOR 78 CAPE FROWARD, STRAITS OF MAGELLAN—From Spry's Voyage of the Challenger 80 MUD VOLCANOES, TURBACO, SOUTH AMERICA—From Figuier's World before the Deluge 90 BARK-GATHERERS' CAMP IN PERU—From Figuier's Vegetable World 102 ELEPHANT TORTOISE, GALAPAGOS ISLANDS—From Brehm's Natural History 106 DARWIN TESTING THE SPEED OF AN

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A268 Book: Holder, Charles Frederick. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life and work. New York: G. P. Putnam's sons. Text Image PDF

as the acknowledged varieties of any one species are the descendants of that species. Furthermore, I am convinced that natural selection has been the main but not exclusive means of modification. It will be seen, then, that the various forms of nature, animal or vegetable, are continually changing, affected by the conditions or circumstances which surround them, and that evolution is the term applied to the change. [page 183

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A268 Book: Holder, Charles Frederick. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life and work. New York: G. P. Putnam's sons. Text Image PDF

CHAPTER XIX. DARWINISM CONTINUED. How Change is Produced—Vast Eras of Time—The Age of the Earth—Evidences of Evolution—Extinct Animals. IN the previous chapter we have seen that Darwin claims that in nature there is a tendency to variability, certain conditions producing it, and that all the diverse forms of animal life are to-day the result of this process. Without an adequate idea of geological time this cannot be realized; but if we imagine that these changes have gradually been going on

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A268 Book: Holder, Charles Frederick. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life and work. New York: G. P. Putnam's sons. Text Image PDF

long eras of time, became species; from these genera were evolved; and so the change went on, populating the world. The story of this evolution is told in the Origin of Species, The Descent of Man, and other works of the great naturalist, which mark epochs in the history of scientific thought. [page 195