Category: Science - Biology
The literature on the subject of evolution has already attained such vast dimensions that any attempt to add to it has the appearance of being both superfluous and presumptuous. It is, however, in the fact that the generality of modern works are frankly partisan in their treat...
The literature on the subject of evolution has already attained such vast dimensions that any attempt to add to it has the appearance of being both superfluous and presumptuous....
3. CHAPTER IThree prominent men, a scientist, a publicist, and an orator, have recently made pronouncements on the theory of Evolution. The trio, of course, to whom allusion is made, are Ba...
4. CHAPTER IIThe recent revival of interest in the problem of evolution seems to have called forth two very opposite expressions of opinion from those who profess to represent Catholic thoug...
5. CHAPTER III“_By dint of such great efforts we succeeded only in piecing together genial romances more or less historical._”—B. Grassi, Prof. of Comparative Anatomy, Univ. of Rome, “La vita...
6. CHAPTER IStrictly speaking, the theory of Transformism is not concerned with the initial production of organic species, but rather with the subsequent differentiation and multiplication...
7. CHAPTER IIWe live in an age in which scientific specialization is stressed as the most important means of advancing the interests of human knowledge; and specialism, by reason of its many...
8. CHAPTER IIIIn an article published August 31, 1895, in the _New York Freeman’s Journal_, the late Rev. J. A. Zahm gave expression to the following opinion: “The evolution of the body of ma...