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Show xii CONTENTS. . PAGE nate Variations; these not a Product of, but a Response to, the Environment; not physical, but physiologicaL-Adaptations in Nature not explained by Natural Selection apart from Design or Final Cause.-.Absurdity of associating Design only with Miracle.-What is meant by Nature.-The Tradition of the DIVINE in Nature, testified to by .Aristotle, comes down to "' our Day with Undiminished Value . 356 INDEX • 391 £ DARWINIANA . I. THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION. 1 (Ali.EmoAN JOURNAL OF SOIBNOE AND AR'l'B, March, 1860.) THIS book is already exciting much attention. T~o American editions are announced, through which it will become familiar to many of our readers, before these pages are issued. An abstract of the argument -for "the whole volume is one long argument," as the author states-is unnecessary in such a case; and it would be difficult to give by detached extracts. For the volume itself is an abstract, a prodromus of a detailed work upon which the• author has been laboring for twenty y~ars, and which" will take two or three more years to complete." It is exceedingly compact ; and although useful summaries are appended to the several chapters, and a general recapitulation con- 1 "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life," by Charles Darwin, M.A., Fellow' of the Royal, Geological, Linnroan, etc., Societies, Author of "Journal of Researches during II. M.S. Beagle'~ Voyage round the World." London: John Murray. 1859. 502 pp., post Svo. |