Book contents
- Frontmatter
- A PREFATORY LETTER
- Contents
- LAY SERMONS, ADDRESSES, AND REVIEWS
- I ON THE ADVISABLENESS OF IMPROVING NATURAL KNOWLEDGE
- II EMANCIPATION—BLACK AND WHITE
- III A LIBERAL EDUCATION: AND WHERE TO FIND IT
- IV SCIENTIFIC EDUCATION: NOTES OF AN AFTER-DINNER SPEECH
- V ON THE EDUCATIONAL VALUE OF THE NATURAL HISTORY SCIENCES
- VI ON THE STUDY OF ZOOLOGY
- VII ON THE PHYSICAL BASIS OF LIFE
- VIII THE SCIENTIFIC ASPECTS OF POSITIVISM
- IX ON A PIECE OF CHALK
- X GEOLOGICAL CONTEMPORANEITY AND PERSISTENT TYPES OF LIFE
- XI GEOLOGICAL REFORM
- XII THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES
- XIII CRITICISMS ON “THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES”
- XIV ON DESCARTES' “DISCOURSE TOUCHING THE METHOD OF USING ONE'S REASON RIGHTLY AND OF SEEKING SCIENTIFIC TRUTH”
XIII - CRITICISMS ON “THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES”
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 August 2010
- Frontmatter
- A PREFATORY LETTER
- Contents
- LAY SERMONS, ADDRESSES, AND REVIEWS
- I ON THE ADVISABLENESS OF IMPROVING NATURAL KNOWLEDGE
- II EMANCIPATION—BLACK AND WHITE
- III A LIBERAL EDUCATION: AND WHERE TO FIND IT
- IV SCIENTIFIC EDUCATION: NOTES OF AN AFTER-DINNER SPEECH
- V ON THE EDUCATIONAL VALUE OF THE NATURAL HISTORY SCIENCES
- VI ON THE STUDY OF ZOOLOGY
- VII ON THE PHYSICAL BASIS OF LIFE
- VIII THE SCIENTIFIC ASPECTS OF POSITIVISM
- IX ON A PIECE OF CHALK
- X GEOLOGICAL CONTEMPORANEITY AND PERSISTENT TYPES OF LIFE
- XI GEOLOGICAL REFORM
- XII THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES
- XIII CRITICISMS ON “THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES”
- XIV ON DESCARTES' “DISCOURSE TOUCHING THE METHOD OF USING ONE'S REASON RIGHTLY AND OF SEEKING SCIENTIFIC TRUTH”
Summary
Ueber die Darwin'sche Schopfungstheorie ; ein Vortrag, von A. Kölliker. Leipzig, 1864.
Examination du Livre de M. Darwin sur l'Origine des Espèces. Par P. Flourens. Paris, 1864.
In the course of the present year [1864] several foreign commentaries upon Mr. Darwin's great work have made their appearance. Those who have perused that remarkable chapter of the “Antiquity of Man,” in which Sir Charles Lyell draws a parallel between the development of species and that of languages, will be glad to hear that one of the most eminent philologers of Germany, Professor Schleicher, has, independently, published a most instructive and philosophical pamphlet (an excellent notice of which is to be found in the Reader, for February 27th of this year) supporting similar views with all the weight of his special knowledge and established authority as a linguist. Professor Haeckel, to whom Schleicher addresses himself, previously took occasion, in his splendid monograph on the Radiolaria to express his high appreciation of, and general concordance with, Mr. Darwin's views.
But the most elaborate criticisms of the “Origin of Species” which have appeared are two works of very widely different merit, the one by Professor Kölliker, the well-known anatomist and histologist of Wtirzburg; the other by M. Flourens, Perpetual Secretary of the French Academy of Sciences.
Professor Kölliker's critical essay “Upon the Darwinian Theory” is, like all that proceeds from the pen of that thoughtful and accomplished writer, worthy of the most careful consideration.
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