Evolution in Modern Thought

Chapter 25

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But we can go further still. Whence comes the idea that all measures inspired by the sentiment of solidarity are contrary to Nature's trend? Observe her carefully, and she will not give lessons only in individualism. Side by side with the struggle for existence do we not find in operation what Lanessan calls "association for existence." Long ago, Espinas had drawn attention to "societies of animals," temporary or permanent, and to the kind of morality that arose in them. Since then, naturalists have often insisted upon the importance of various forms of symbiosis. Kropotkin in _Mutual Aid_ has chosen to enumerate many examples of altruism furnished by animals to mankind. Geddes and Thomson went so far as to maintain that "Each of the greater steps of progress is in fact associated with an increased measure of subordination of individual competition to reproductive or social ends, and of interspecific competition to co-operative, association."[257] Experience shows, according to Geddes, that the types which are fittest to surmount great obstacles are not so much those who engage in the fiercest competitive struggle for existence, as those who contrive to temper it. From all these observations there resulted, along with a limitation of Darwinian pessimism, some encouragement for the aspirations of the collectivists.

And Darwin himself would, doubtless, have subscribed to these rectifications. He never insisted, like his rival, Wallace, upon the necessity of the solitary struggle of creatures in a state of nature, each for himself and against all. On the contrary, in _The Descent of Man_, he pointed out the serviceableness of the social instincts, and corroborated Bagehot's statements when the latter, applying laws of physics to politics, showed the great advantage societies derived from intercourse and communion. Again, the theory of sexual evolution which makes the evolution of types depend increasingly upon preferences, judgments, mental factors, surely offers something to qualify what seems hard and brutal in the theory of natural selection.

But, as often happens with disciples, the Darwinians had out-Darwined Darwin. The extravagances of social Darwinism provoked a useful reaction; and thus people were led to seek, even in the animal kingdom, for facts of solidarity which would serve to justify humane effort.

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On quite another line, however, an attempt has been made to connect socialist tendencies with Darwinian principles. Marx and Darwin have been confronted; and writers have undertaken to show that the work of the German philosopher fell readily into line with that of the English naturalist and was a development of it. Such has been the endeavour of Ferri in Italy and of Woltmann in Germany, not to mention others. The founders of "scientific socialism" had, moreover, themselves thought of this reconciliation. They make more than one allusion to Darwin in works which appeared after 1859. And sometimes they use his theory to define by contrast their own ideal. They remark that the capitalist system, by giving free course to individual competition, ends indeed in a _bellum omnium contra omnes_; and they make it clear that Darwinism, thus understood, is as repugnant to them as to Dühring.

But it is at the scientific and not at the moral point of view that they place themselves when they connect their economic history with Darwin's work. Thanks to this unifying hypothesis, they claim to have constructed--as Marx does in his preface to _Das Kapital_--a veritable natural history of social evolution. Engels speaks in praise of his friend Marx as having discovered the true mainspring of history hidden under the veil of idealism and sentimentalism, and as having proclaimed in the _primum vivere_ the inevitableness of the struggle for existence. Marx himself, in _Das Kapital_, indicated another analogy when he dwelt upon the importance of a general technology for the explanation of this psychology:--a history of tools which would be to social organs what Darwinism is to the organs of animal species. And the very importance they attach to tools, to apparatus, to machines, abundantly proves that neither Marx nor Engels were likely to forget the special characters which mark off the human world from the animal. The former always remains to a great extent an artificial world. Inventions change the face of its institutions. New modes of production revolutionise not only modes of government, but modes even of collective thought. Therefore it is that the evolution of society is controlled by laws special to it, of which the spectacle of nature offers no suggestion.

If, however, even in this special sphere, it can still be urged that the evolution of the material conditions of society is in accord with Darwin's theory, it is because the influence of the methods of production is itself to be explained by the incessant strife of the various classes with each other. So that in the end Marx, like Darwin, finds the source of all progress is in struggle. Both are grandsons of Heraclitus:--[Greek: polemos patêr pantôn]. It sometimes happens, in these days, that the doctrine of revolutionary socialism is contrasted as rude and healthy with what may seem to be the enervating tendency of "solidarist" philanthropy: the apologists of the doctrine then pride themselves above all upon their faithfulness to Darwinian principles.

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So far we have been mainly concerned to show the use that social philosophies have made of the Darwinian laws for practical purposes: in order to orientate society towards their ideals each school tries to show that the authority of natural science is on its side. But even in the most objective of theories, those which systematically make abstraction of all political tendencies in order to study the social reality in itself, traces of Darwinism are readily to be found.

Let us take for example Durkheim's theory of Division of Labour.[258] The conclusions he derives from it are that whenever professional specialisation causes multiplication of distinct branches of activity, we get organic solidarity--implying differences--substituted for mechanical solidarity, based upon likenesses. The umbilical cord, as Marx said, which connects the individual consciousness with the collective consciousness is cut. The personality becomes more and more emancipated. But on what does this phenomenon, so big with consequences, itself depend? The author goes to social morphology for the answer: it is, he says, the growing density of population which brings with it this increasing differentiation of activities. But, again, why? Because the greater density, in thrusting men up against each other, augments the intensity of their competition for the means of existence; and for the problems which society thus has to face differentiation of functions presents itself as the gentlest solution.

Here one sees that the writer borrows directly from Darwin. Competition is at its maximum between similars, Darwin had declared; different species, not laying claim to the same food, could more easily coexist. Here lay the explanation of the fact that upon the same oak hundreds of different insects might be found. Other things being equal, the same applies to society. He who finds some unadopted specialty possesses a means of his own for getting a living. It is by this division of their manifold tasks that men contrive not to crush each other. Here we obviously have a Darwinian law serving as intermediary in the explanation of that progress of division of labour which itself explains so much in the social evolution.

And we might take another example, at the other end of the series of sociological systems. G. Tarde is a sociologist with the most pronounced anti-naturalistic views. He has attempted to show that all application of the laws of natural science to society is misleading. In his _Opposition Universelle_ he has directly combatted all forms of sociological Darwinism. According to him the idea that the evolution of society can be traced on the same plan as the evolution of species is chimerical. Social evolution is at the mercy of all kinds of inventions, which by virtue of the laws of imitation modify, through individual to individual, through neighbourhood to neighbourhood, the general state of those beliefs and desires which are the only "quantities" whose variation matters to the sociologist. But, it may be rejoined, that however psychical the forces may be, they are none the less subject to Darwinian laws. They compete with each other; they struggle for the mastery of minds. Between types of ideas, as between organic forms, selection operates. And though it may be that these types are ushered into the arena by unexpected discoveries, we yet recognise in the psychological accidents, which Tarde places at the base of everything, near relatives of those small accidental variations upon which Darwin builds. Thus, accepting Tarde's own representations, it is quite possible to express in Darwinian terms, with the necessary transpositions, one of the most idealistic sociologies that have ever been constructed.

These few examples suffice. They enable us to estimate the extent of the field of influence of Darwinism. It affects sociology not only through the agency of its advocates but through that of its opponents. The questions to which it has given rise have proved no less fruitful than the solutions it has suggested. In short, few doctrines, in the history of social philosophy, will have produced on their passage a finer crop of ideas.

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 246: P. Flourens, _Examen du Livre de M. Darwin sur l'Origine des Espèces_, p. 53, Paris, 1864. See also Huxley, "Criticisms on the _Origin of Species," Collected Essays_, Vol. II, p. 102, London, 1902.]

[Footnote 247: _Inquiries into Human Faculty_, pp. 1, 2, 3 sq., London, 1883.]

[Footnote 248: _Darwinism and Politics_, pp. 9, 22, London, 1889.]

[Footnote 249: _Life and Letters of Charles Darwin_, II. p. 385.]

[Footnote 250: V. de Lapouge, _Les Sélections sociales_, p. 259, Paris, 1896.]

[Footnote 251: _Die natärliche Auslese beim Menschen_, Jena, 1893; _Du Gesellschaftsordnung und ihre natürlichen Grundlagen. Entwurf einer Sozialanthropologie_, Jena, 1896.]

[Footnote 252: _Etudes sur la Sélection dans ses rapports avec l'hérédité chez l'homme_, Paris, p. 481, 1881.]

[Footnote 253: _Die drei Bevölkerungsstufen_, Munich, 1889.]

[Footnote 254: _Evolution and Ethics_, p. 200; _Collected Essays_, Vol. IX, London, 1894.]

[Footnote 255: _Les Luttes entre Sociétés humaines et leurs phases successives_, Paris, 1893.]

[Footnote 256: _Le socialisme contemporain_, p. 384 (6th edit.), Paris, 1891.]

[Footnote 257: Geddes and Thomson, _The Evolution of Sex_, p. 311, London, 1889.]

[Footnote 258: _De la Division du Travail social_, Paris. 1893.]

INDEX

_Abraxas grossulariata_, 100

Acquired characters, transmission of, 20, 28, 42, 94, 120, 149, 171, 173

_Acraea johnstoni_, 290 [Transcriber's Note: No such page number or reference seen.]

Adaptation, 24, 27, 34, 39, 42-45, 50, 58, 79-86, 106, 107

Adloff, 140

Alexander, 217

Ameghino, 132, 138

Ammon, O., Works of, 271

_Anaea divina_, 69

Anglicus, Bartholomaeus, 237

Ankyroderma, 40

Anomma, 44

Anthropops, 132

Ants, modifications of, 43-46, 51

Ardigò, 207, 208

Argyll, Huxley and the Duke of, 238

Aristotle, 3, 237, 240

Avenarius, 211

Bacon, on mutability of species, 4, 5

Baehr, von, on Cytology, 99

Bain, 194

Baldwin, J. M., 53, Foot Note 165

Balfour, A. J., 241

Barratt, 217

Bates, H. W., on Mimicry, 70, 76 --232

BATESON, W., on _Heredity and Variation in Modern Lights_, 87-110 --on discontinuous evolution, 30

Bathmism, 14

Bells (Sir Charles) _Anatomy of Expression_, 177

Bentham, Jeremy, 217, 218

Bergson, H., 208

Berkeley, 200

Berthelot, 228

Bickford, E., experiments on degeneration by, 52

Biophores, 47

Blumenbach, 89

Bodin, 256

Bonald, on war, 273

Bonnet, 6

BOUGLÉ, C., on _Darwinism and Sociology_, 264-280

Bourdeau, 253

Bourget, P., 270

Boutroux, 208

Brassica, hybrids of, 106

_Brassica Napus_, 106

Broca, 137, 270

Brock, on Kant, Foot Note 6

Brunetière, 274

Bruno, on Evolution, 4

Buch, von, 15

Buckle, 252, 253, 256, 258

Buffon, 6-15, 21, 88

Burdon-Sanderson, J., letter from, Foot Note 224

BURY, J. B., on _Darwinism and History_, 246-263

Butler, Samuel, 9, Foot Note 17, Foot Note 57, Foot Note 61, 94, Foot Note 66, 107

Butterflies, mimicry in, 65-83 --sexual characters in, 59-63

Cabanis, 201

Candolle, de, 270

Carneri, 217

_Castnia linus_, 76

Caterpillars, variation in, 36, 37

Cesnola, experiments on Mantis by, 65

Chaerocampa, colouring of, 68

Chambers, R., _The Vestiges of Creation_ by, 15

Chromosomes and Chromomeres, 47, 96-100

Chun, Foot Note 36

Claus, Foot Note 21

Clodd, E., Foot Note 13

Coadaptation, 41-54

_Colobopsis truncata_, 44

Colour, E. B. Poulton, in relation to Sexual Selection, 61-65

Comte, A., 200-203, 252-255, 262, 265

Condorcet, 221, 250, 252, 258

Cope, 138

Correlation of organisms, Darwin's idea of the, 2

Cournot, 265

Cuvier, 9, 10, 266, 268

Cytology and heredity, 95, 96, 99, 100

_Danaida chrysippus_, 75

_Danaida genutia_, 75

_D. Plexippus_, 75

Dantec, Le, 274

Darwin, Charles, as an Anthropologist, 146-165 --on ants, 44 --and S. Butler, Foot Note 61, 94 --on Cirripedia, 212 --on the Descent of Man, 111-145 --evolutionist authors referred to in the _Origin_ by, 9

Darwin, Charles, and Haeckel, 137 --and History, 246-263 --and Huxley, 112 --on Lamarck, 28, 129 --on Language, 124 --and Malthus, 16, 24, 91 --on Patrick Matthew, 19 --on mental evolution, 166-196 --on Natural Selection, 21, 41, 54, 55, 122 --a "Naturalist for Naturalists," 87 --his personality, 187 --his influence on Philosophy, 197-222 --predecessors of, 1-22 --his views on religion, etc., 115, 116, 219-222 --his influence on religious thought, 223-245 --causes of his success, 10, 90

Darwin, Charles, on the _Vestiges of Creation_, 15 --and Wallace, 23, 183 --on evolution, 7-15, 88 --on Lamarckism, 11

Darwin, F., on Prichard's "Anticipations," 21

Darwinism, Sociology, Evolution and, 17-18

Degeneration, 49-51, 93

Deniker, 137

Descartes, 4

Descent, history of doctrine of, 1

_Descent of Man_, G. Schwalbe on _The_, 111-145 --rejection in Germany of _The_, 156

Diderot, 6, 198

Dimorphism, seasonal, 30

_Dismorphia orise_, 75

Dragomirov, 273

Driesch, Foot Note 67

Dryopithecus, 132

Dubois, E., on Pithecanthropus, 132, 137

Dühring, 214, 277

Duns Scotus, 200

Duret, C., 6

Durkheim, on division of labour, 278

Ecology, Foot Note 205

Eimer, 109

_Elymnias undularis_, 73, 75

Embryology, the Origin of Species and, 154, 155

Empedocles, 3, 27, 151

Engels, 277

Environment, action of, 12, 13, 15

Epicurus, a poet of Evolution, 4

Eristalis, 75

Espinas, 275

Evolution, and creation, 233 --conception of, 3-5, 9, 148, 151, 198 --discontinuous, 30 --experimental, 5, 7 --factors of, 11-15 --mental, 194 --Lloyd Morgan on mental factors in, 166-196 --Darwinism and Social, 18 --Saltatory, 29-32 --Herbert Spencer on, 204-207 --Philosophers and modern methods of studying, 4

Expression of the Emotions, 177-184

Ferri, 277

Ferrier, his work on the brain, 523 [Transcriber's note: No such page number or reference seen]

Fichte, 222

Flourens, 267

Flowers and Insects, 61, 78

Fouillée, 207, 208

Fraipont, on skulls from Spy, 134

GADOW, 162

_Gallus bankiva_, 102

Gallon, F., 125, 150, 269

Geddes, P., 17, Foot Note 32

Geddes, P. and A. W. Thomson, 276

Gegenbaur, 150, 163

Genetics, 93, 96

_Germ-plasm_, continuity of, 95 --Weismann on, 46-51

Germinal Selection, 36, 37, 46-51, 64

Gibbon, 248

Giuffrida-Ruggeri, 138, 140

Giotto, 259

Gizycki, 217

Goethe and Evolution, 8, 14, 15, 201 --on the relation between Man and Mammals, 161, 163 --221

Gore, Dr., 226

Gorjanovic-Kramberger, 134

Gosse, P. H., 234

_Grapta C. album_, 69

Groos, 187, 188

Gulick, 15, 53

Guyau, 217

Haberlandt, G., 34

HAECKEL, E., on _Charles Darwin as an Anthropologist_, 146-165 --and Darwin, 135-151, 137, 146-165 --on the Descent of Man, 137, 143 --on Lamarck, 8, Foot Note 21 --a leader in the Darwinian controversy, 137 --217

Häcker, 33

Hansen, 272

Hartmann, von, 240

Harvey, 4

Haycraft, 275

Hegel, 201, 203, 215, 251, 252, 255

Heraclitus, 278

Herder, 4, 5, 20

Heredity and Cytology, 95, 96 --Haeckel on, 147, 148, 149, 153 --and Variation, 87-110 --219, 224

Hering, E., on Memory, 153

Hertwig, O., 150

History, Darwin and, 246-263

Hobbes, T., 200, 215

Hobhouse, 242

HÖFFDING, H., on _The Influence of the Conception of Evolution on Modern Philosophy_, 197-222

Holothurians, calcareous bodies in skin of, 37-41

_Homo heidelbergensis_, Foot Note 118

_H. neandertalensis_, 138

_H. pampaeus_, 144

_H. primigenius_, 133, 134, 138, 144

_Homunculus_, 132

Hooker, Sir J. D., and Darwin, 23, 116

Huber, 170

Hügel, F. von, Foot Note 221

Hume, 200

Hutcheson, 216

Huxley, T. H., and Darwin, 112, 116, 268 --and the Duke of Argyll, 238 --on Lamarck, 89 --on Man, 111, 112, 137, 146, 156, 160, 163 --on Selection, 24, 91 --on transmission of acquired characters, 149 --14, 24, 104, 231-236, 273, 274

Hybrids, Sterility of, 104, 105, 106

Inheritance of acquired characters, 93, 94

Insects and Flowers, 60, 61, 78, 79

Instinct, 122, 172-175

Irish Elk, an example of coadaptation, 41, 42, 45

Jacoby, _Studies in Selection_ by, 272

James, W., 180, 191, 211

Jentsch, 275

Kallima, protective colouring of, 35, 68, 70

_K. inachis_, 68

Kammerer's experiments on Salamanders, 28

Kant, I., 4, 5, 6, 27, 198, 211, 212, 217, 221, 222

Keane, on the Primates, 138

Keith, on Anthropoid Apes, 138

Kepler, 198

Klaatsch, on Ancestry of Man, 140

Klaatsch and Hauser, 134

Knies, 266

Kölliker, his views on Evolution, 29, 150

Kollmann, on origin of human races, 144

Korschinsky, 31

Krause, E., Foot Note 10, 13

Kropotkin, 214, 275

Lamarck, his division of the Animal Kingdom, 160, 161 --Darwin's opinion of, 129 --on Evolution, 9-14, 21, 25, 171, 172, 173, 179, 180, 201, 202, 253 --on Man, 146, 148, 160, 163 --89, 109, 201, 202, 233

Lamarckian principle, 28, 41-44, 50-54, 67, 84, 86

Lamb, C., 229

Lamettrie, 198

Lamprecht, 260-263

Lanessan, J. L. de, Foot Note 17, 275

Lang, Foot Note 21

Lange, 180

Language, Darwin on, 123, 124 --Evolution and the Science of, 178, 179, 188

Lankester, Sir E. Ray, on degeneration, 268 --on educability, 170, 189

Lankester, Sir E. Ray, on the germ-plasm theory, 150

Lapouge, Vacher de, 270

Lartet, M. E., 189

Lasalle, 266

Laveleye, de, 275

Lawrence, W., 89, Foot Note 65

Lehmann-Nitsche, 138, 144

Leibnitz, 4, 5, 213

Lepidoptera, variation in, 37, 60-63

Lessing, 4, 221

Liddon, H. P., 234

_Limenitis archippus_, 74

Linnaeus, 6

Locy, W. A., Foot Note 15

Lovejoy, Foot Note 56

Lubbock, 125

Lucretius, a poet of Evolution, 4

Lyell, Sir Charles, and Darwin, 23, 116 --the uniformitarian teaching of, 89

Macacus, ear of, 119

Mach, E., 153, 211

Mahoudeau, 137

Maillet, de, 6

Majewski, Foot Note 238, Foot Note 239

Malthus, his influence on Darwin, 16-18, 21, 24, 91 --200, 273

Man, Descent of, 126, 127, 128, 131-145, 156-165, 189, 254, 265 --mental and moral qualities of animals and, 122-126, 164, 188-192 --pre-Darwinian views on the Descent of, 1

Man, Tertiary flints worked by, 136

_Man_, G. Schwalbe on Darwin's _Descent of_, 111-145

Manouvrier, 137

_Mantis religiosa_, colour experiments on, 65, 68

Marx, 262, 276-278

Matthew, P., and Natural Selection, 18, 19

Maupertuis, 6, 88, 103

Mayer, R., 197

_Mechanitis lysimnia_, 77

_Melinaea ethra_, 77

Mendel, 97-100, 184, 228

Merz, J. T., Foot Note 14

Mesopithecus, 132

Mill, J. S., 193, 200, 202, 218

Mimicry, 70-82

Moltke, on war, 273

Monkeys, fossil, 132

Montesquieu, 248

Monticelli, 155

MORGAN, C. LLOYD, on _Mental Factors in Evolution_, 166-196 --on Organic Selection, 53

Morgan, T. H., 99

Morselli, 138

Mortillet, 136

Moseley, Foot Note 224

Muller, Fritz, _Für Darwin_ by, 154 --on Mimicry, 233 --59, 77

Muller, J., 147

Müller, Max, on language, 124

Mutation, 15, 31, 184, 199, 209

Nägeli, 109, 151, 153

Nathusius, 103

Natural Selection, Darwin's views on, 90, 91, 122, 149 --Darwin and Wallace on, 2, 163, 183 --and design, 241, 242 --and educability, 195 --and human development, 125, 256, 257 --16-20, 25, 26, 41, 55-58, 64-86, 87-96, 199, 233

Neandertal skulls, 133, 134

Neodarwinism, 150

Newton, A., Foot Note 59

Newton, I., 197, 198

Niebuhr, 249, 263

Nietzsche, 214, 271

Nitsche, 119

Novicow, 274

Nuttall, G. H. F., 135

Occam, 200

Odin, 270

Oecology, see Ecology

_Oenothera lamarckiana_, 32

Oestergren, on Holothurians, 37-39

Oken, L., 7, 201

Organic Selection, 53, 54, 172, 173

Orthogenesis, 109

Osborn, H. F., 53, Foot Note 165 --_From the Greeks to Darwin_ by, 3-5, 12, 14, 20

_Ovibos moschatus_, 67

Owen, Sir Richard, 111

Packard, A. S., Foot Note 12, Foot Note 18

Palaeopithecus, 132

Paley, 18, 242, 244

Panmixia, Weismann's principle of, 54

_Papilio dardanus_, 72, 73, 74

_P. meriones_, 73

_P. merope_, 72

Pearson, K., Foot Note 7

Penck, 136

Peridineae, 33

Perrier, E., Foot Note 21, 20

Perthes, B. de, 123

Pfeffer, W., 28

Philosophy, influence of the conception of evolution on modern, 197-222

Pithecanthropus, 133, 134, 138, 143

Pitheculites, 144

Plate, Foot Note 37

Pliopithecus, 132

Pouchet, G., Foot Note 3

POULTON, E. B., experiments on Butterflies by, 65 --on J. C. Prichard, 20 --on Mimicry, 69, 71, 75, 78 --Foot Note 34, Foot Note 43, Foot Note 49, Foot Note 55

Prichard, J. C., 20, 21, 89, Foot Note 65

_Pronuba yuccasella_, 79

Protective resemblance, 65-70

Pusey, 115

Quatrefages, A. de, Foot Note 21, 19

Radiolarians, 33

Ranke, 249, 251, 255, 263

Rau, A., 153

Ray, J., 4

Regeneration, Foot Note 71

Religious thought, Darwin's influence on, 223-245

Reversion, 120, 121

Ridley, H. N., Foot Note 88

Ritchie, 270

Robinet, 6

Rolph, 217

Romanes, G. J., Foot Note 3, 15, 32, 54, 164, 234

Roux, 151, 152

Ruskin, 230

Rutot, 136

Saint-Hilaire, E. G. de, 8, 15, 20

Saltatory Evolution, 29-32 (see also Mutations)

Sanders, experiments on Vanessa by, 65

Savigny, 249

Schelling, 4, 5, 200, 201

Schleiden and Schwann, Cell-theory of, 147

Schoetensack, on _Homo heidelbergensis_, Foot Note 118

Schütt, 23

SCHWALBE, G., on _The Descent of Man_, 111-145

Seeck, O., Foot Note 240

Segregation, 97, 98

Selection, artificial, 24, 25, 26, 41, 45, 120, 269-272 --germinal, 35, 36, 46-52, 64

Selection, natural (see Natural Selection) --organic, 53, 171, 172 --sexual, 55-64, 117, 118 --social and natural, 271 --23-86, 103, 129, 130

Selenka, 131

Semnopithecus, 132

Semon, R., 28, 153

Sergi, 138, 143

Sex, recent investigations on, 99, 100

Sibbern, 201

_Smerinthus ocellata_, 38

_Smerinthus populi_, 38

_S. tiliae_, 38

Smith, A., 200

Sociology, Darwinism and, 264-280 --History and, 255

Sollas, W. J., 134

Sorley, W. R., 217

Species and varieties, 100

Spencer, H., on evolution, 204-209 --on the theory of Selection, 41

Spencer, H., on Sociology, 268 --on the transmission of acquired characters, 149 --on Weismann, 41, 150 --2, 17, 217, 231, 268

Sphingidae, variation in, 37

Spinoza, 153, 206

Standfuss, 82

Stephen, L., 217

Sterility in hybrids, 104-106

Sterne, C, Foot Note 10

Struggle for existence, 25, 26, 272-274

Sutton, A. W., Foot Note 73

Synapta, calcareous bodies in skin of, 38-41

Syrphus, 75

Tarde, G., 279

Tennant, F. R., Foot Note 218

Tetraprothomo, 138, 144

THOMSON, J. A., on _Darwin's Predecessors_, 1-22 --150 --and P. Geddes, 276

Treschow, 201

Treviranus, 8, 14, 15

Turgot, 249

Turner, Sir W., 150

Tylor, 267

Tyndall, W., 267