The Philosophical Basis of Evolution

The subject of discussion in the following pages is not so much Evolution, in the ordinary sense of the term, as the Fundamental Principles which underlie this doctrine. The relation of Determinism to Evolution, and to the whole process of organic nature, which is tlie main idea of the book, suggested itself to my mind as far back as the year 1848. Nine years later, in a small anonymous book on Theism, now long out of print, I gave a brief statement of my views on the subject. In the Philosophical Magazine for July 1872, the argument was mo;e fully stated in an article on What Determines Molecular Motion ;and, in the British Quarterly Review for January 1883, the subject was discussed at still greater length in an article entitled Evolution by Force I mpossible. The present volume is not of a speculative or hjothetical character. The reader will readily perceive that all the main conclusions are, without exception, deduced from facts or from fundamental principles. I hihisophy of TJ h Ism, London (W ard iV: Co.).
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