# The Meaning of Evolution Author: Schmucker, Samuel Christian, 1860- Genre: Category: History - Other Language: English License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/29422 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Meaning+of+Evolution+Schmucker&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary Ever since men have been able to think they must have puzzled out for themselves some way of accounting for their own beginnings. Every savage tribe with whom we have any intimate acquaintance has some story that accounts for the origin of the tribe at least, and often for the beginning of the world. These stories are handed down from generation to generation and are scarcely questioned in the thought of most men. In early Greece there was a succession of men whom the world calls philosophers. These men thought earnestly and deeply on all kinds of questions. Their method was not our method. The plan of making a long series of observations, before coming to any conclusion, was not the habi... ## Chapters - [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-meaning-of-evolution-29422/chapters/3/index.md) - [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-meaning-of-evolution-29422/chapters/6/index.md) - [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-meaning-of-evolution-29422/chapters/4/index.md) - [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-meaning-of-evolution-29422/chapters/7/index.md) - [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-meaning-of-evolution-29422/chapters/11/index.md) - [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-meaning-of-evolution-29422/chapters/10/index.md) - [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-meaning-of-evolution-29422/chapters/5/index.md) - [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-meaning-of-evolution-29422/chapters/2/index.md) - [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-meaning-of-evolution-29422/chapters/9/index.md) - [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-meaning-of-evolution-29422/chapters/1/index.md) - [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-meaning-of-evolution-29422/chapters/8/index.md) - [Chapter 28](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-meaning-of-evolution-29422/chapters/28/index.md) - [Chapter 31](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-meaning-of-evolution-29422/chapters/31/index.md) - [Chapter 23](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-meaning-of-evolution-29422/chapters/23/index.md) - [Chapter 30](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-meaning-of-evolution-29422/chapters/30/index.md) - [Chapter 32](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-meaning-of-evolution-29422/chapters/32/index.md) - [Chapter 33](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-meaning-of-evolution-29422/chapters/33/index.md) - [Chapter 25](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-meaning-of-evolution-29422/chapters/25/index.md) - [Chapter 24](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-meaning-of-evolution-29422/chapters/24/index.md) - [Chapter 29](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-meaning-of-evolution-29422/chapters/29/index.md) - [Chapter 22](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-meaning-of-evolution-29422/chapters/22/index.md) - [Chapter 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-meaning-of-evolution-29422/chapters/13/index.md) - [Chapter 26](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-meaning-of-evolution-29422/chapters/26/index.md) - [Chapter 27](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-meaning-of-evolution-29422/chapters/27/index.md) - [Chapter 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-meaning-of-evolution-29422/chapters/17/index.md) - [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-meaning-of-evolution-29422/chapters/12/index.md) - [Chapter 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-meaning-of-evolution-29422/chapters/19/index.md) - [Chapter 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-meaning-of-evolution-29422/chapters/15/index.md) - [Chapter 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-meaning-of-evolution-29422/chapters/14/index.md) - [Chapter 20](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-meaning-of-evolution-29422/chapters/20/index.md) - [Chapter 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-meaning-of-evolution-29422/chapters/16/index.md) - [Chapter 21](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-meaning-of-evolution-29422/chapters/21/index.md) - [Chapter 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-meaning-of-evolution-29422/chapters/18/index.md)