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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

was attacked upon all sides, the principal abuse coming from churchmen, who claimed that the theory was an encouragement to infidelity and atheism. It is not my intention to give the details of Darwin's work and ideas here; it is sufficient to say that evolution—which means the coming out, the unfolding of one species from a preceding—did not originate with Darwin, but the latter's theory was his explanation of the methods by which evolution was accomplished. He saw that man, by care in

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

the infancy of our own knowledge it was unanswerable, and the less we know of nature the more we are impressed with these diversities. It is not, however, simply a question of whether evolution is true; but which is the more probable of two alternatives— that all the phenomena which point in one direction and which could have occurred in natural sequence, have taken place in such sequence; or that direct creative intervention has ensued again and again, when the same ends could have been