Introductory material
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DARWINIANA
PREFACE
ARTICLE I
THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION
Views and Definitions of Species—How Darwin's differs from that of Agassiz, and from the Common View—Variation, its Causes unknown.—Darwin's Genealogical Tree—Darwin and Agassiz agree in the Capital Facts—Embryology—Physical Connection of Species compatible with Intellectual Connection—How to prove Transmutation.—Known Extent of Variation—Cause of Likeness unknown—Artificial Selection.—Reversion—Interbreeding—Natural Selection.—Classification tentative.—What Darwin assumes.—Argument stated.—How Natural Selection works.—Where the Argument is weakest.—Objections—Morphology and Teleology harmonized.—Theory not atheistical.—Conceivable Modes of Relation of God to Nature
ARTICLE II
DESIGN VERSUS NECESSITY— A DISCUSSION
How Design in Nature can be shown—Design not inconsistent with Indirect Attainment