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Evolution in Modern Thought

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Abraxas grossulariata, 100

Acquired characters, transmission of, 20, 28, 42, 94, 120, 149, 171, 173

Acraea johnstoni, 290

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Adaptation, 24, 27, 34, 39, 42-45, 50, 58, 79-86, 106, 107

Adloff, 140

Alexander, 217

Ameghino, 132, 138

Ammon, O., Works of, 271

Anaea divina, 69

Anglicus, Bartholomaeus, 237

Ankyroderma, 40

Anomma, 44

Anthropops, 132

Ants, modifications of, 43-46, 51

Ardigò, 207, 208

Argyll, Huxley and the Duke of, 238

Aristotle, 3, 237, 240

Avenarius, 211

Bacon, on mutability of species, 4, 5

Baehr, von, on Cytology, 99

Bain, 194

Baldwin, J. M., 53, Foot Note 165

Balfour, A. J., 241

Barratt, 217

Bates, H. W., on Mimicry, 70, 76 —232

Bateson, W., on Heredity and Variation in Modern Lights, 87-110 —on discontinuous evolution, 30

Bathmism, 14

Bells (Sir Charles) Anatomy of Expression, 177

Bentham, Jeremy, 217, 218

Bergson, H., 208

Berkeley, 200

Berthelot, 228

Bickford, E., experiments on degeneration by, 52

Biophores, 47

Blumenbach, 89

Bodin, 256

Bonald, on war, 273

Bonnet, 6

Bouglé, C., on Darwinism and Sociology, 264-280

Bourdeau, 253

Bourget, P., 270

Boutroux, 208

Brassica, hybrids of, 106

Brassica Napus, 106

Broca, 137, 270

Brock, on Kant, Foot Note 6

Brunetière, 274

Bruno, on Evolution, 4

Buch, von, 15

Buckle, 252, 253, 256, 258

Buffon, 6-15, 21, 88

Burdon-Sanderson, J., letter from, Foot Note 224

Bury, J. B., on Darwinism and History, 246-263

Butler, Samuel, 9, Foot Note 17, Foot Note 57, Foot Note 61, 94, Foot Note 66, 107

Butterflies, mimicry in, 65-83 —sexual characters in, 59-63

Cabanis, 201

Candolle, de, 270

Carneri, 217

Castnia linus, 76

Caterpillars, variation in, 36, 37

Cesnola, experiments on Mantis by, 65

Chaerocampa, colouring of, 68

Chambers, R., The Vestiges of Creation by, 15

Chromosomes and Chromomeres, 47, 96-100

Chun, Foot Note 36

Claus, Foot Note 21

Clodd, E., Foot Note 13

Coadaptation, 41-54

Colobopsis truncata, 44

Colour, E. B. Poulton, in relation to Sexual Selection, 61-65

Comte, A., 200-203, 252-255, 262, 265

Condorcet, 221, 250, 252, 258

Cope, 138

Correlation of organisms, Darwin's idea of the, 2

Cournot, 265

Cuvier, 9, 10, 266, 268

Cytology and heredity, 95, 96, 99, 100

Danaida chrysippus, 75

Danaida genutia, 75

D. Plexippus, 75

Dantec, Le, 274

Darwin, Charles, as an Anthropologist, 146-165 —on ants, 44 —and S. Butler, Foot Note 61, 94 —on Cirripedia, 212 —on the Descent of Man, 111-145 —evolutionist authors referred to in the Origin by, 9

Darwin, Charles, and Haeckel, 137 —and History, 246-263 —and Huxley, 112 —on Lamarck, 28, 129 —on Language, 124 —and Malthus, 16, 24, 91 —on Patrick Matthew, 19 —on mental evolution, 166-196 —on Natural Selection, 21, 41, 54, 55, 122 —a "Naturalist for Naturalists," 87 —his personality, 187 —his influence on Philosophy, 197-222 —predecessors of, 1-22 —his views on religion, etc., 115, 116, 219-222 —his influence on religious thought, 223-245 —causes of his success, 10, 90

Darwin, Charles, on the Vestiges of Creation, 15 —and Wallace, 23, 183 —on evolution, 7-15, 88 —on Lamarckism, 11

Darwin, F., on Prichard's "Anticipations," 21

Darwinism, Sociology, Evolution and, 17-18

Degeneration, 49-51, 93

Deniker, 137

Descartes, 4

Descent, history of doctrine of, 1

Descent of Man, G. Schwalbe on The, 111-145 —rejection in Germany of The, 156

Diderot, 6, 198

Dimorphism, seasonal, 30

Dismorphia orise, 75

Dragomirov, 273

Driesch, Foot Note 67

Dryopithecus, 132

Dubois, E., on Pithecanthropus, 132, 137

Dühring, 214, 277

Duns Scotus, 200

Duret, C., 6

Durkheim, on division of labour, 278

Ecology, Foot Note 205

Eimer, 109

Elymnias undularis, 73, 75

Embryology, the Origin of Species and, 154, 155

Empedocles, 3, 27, 151

Engels, 277

Environment, action of, 12, 13, 15

Epicurus, a poet of Evolution, 4

Eristalis, 75

Espinas, 275

Evolution, and creation, 233 —conception of, 3-5, 9, 148, 151, 198 —discontinuous, 30 —experimental, 5, 7 —factors of, 11-15 —mental, 194 —Lloyd Morgan on mental factors in, 166-196 —Darwinism and Social, 18 —Saltatory, 29-32 —Herbert Spencer on, 204-207 —Philosophers and modern methods of studying, 4

Expression of the Emotions, 177-184

Ferri, 277

Ferrier, his work on the brain, 523

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Fichte, 222

Flourens, 267

Flowers and Insects, 61, 78

Fouillée, 207, 208

Fraipont, on skulls from Spy, 134

Gadow, 162

Gallus bankiva, 102

Gallon, F., 125, 150, 269

Geddes, P., 17, Foot Note 32

Geddes, P. and A. W. Thomson, 276

Gegenbaur, 150, 163

Genetics, 93, 96

Germ-plasm, continuity of, 95 —Weismann on, 46-51

Germinal Selection, 36, 37, 46-51, 64

Gibbon, 248

Giuffrida-Ruggeri, 138, 140

Giotto, 259

Gizycki, 217

Goethe and Evolution, 8, 14, 15, 201 —on the relation between Man and Mammals, 161, 163 —221

Gore, Dr., 226

Gorjanovič-Kramberger, 134

Gosse, P. H., 234

Grapta C. album, 69

Groos, 187, 188

Gulick, 15, 53

Guyau, 217

Haberlandt, G., 34

Haeckel, E., on Charles Darwin as an Anthropologist, 146-165 —and Darwin, 135-151, 137, 146-165 —on the Descent of Man, 137, 143 —on Lamarck, 8, Foot Note 21 —a leader in the Darwinian controversy, 137 —217

Häcker, 33

Hansen, 272

Hartmann, von, 240

Harvey, 4

Haycraft, 275

Hegel, 201, 203, 215, 251, 252, 255

Heraclitus, 278

Herder, 4, 5, 20

Heredity and Cytology, 95, 96 —Haeckel on, 147, 148, 149, 153 —and Variation, 87-110 —219, 224

Hering, E., on Memory, 153

Hertwig, O., 150

History, Darwin and, 246-263

Hobbes, T., 200, 215

Hobhouse, 242

Höffding, H., on The Influence of the Conception of Evolution on Modern Philosophy, 197-222

Holothurians, calcareous bodies in skin of, 37-41

Homo heidelbergensis, Foot Note 118

H. neandertalensis, 138

H. pampaeus, 144

H. primigenius, 133, 134, 138, 144

Homunculus, 132

Hooker, Sir J. D., and Darwin, 23, 116

Huber, 170

Hügel, F. von, Foot Note 221

Hume, 200

Hutcheson, 216

Huxley, T. H., and Darwin, 112, 116, 268 —and the Duke of Argyll, 238 —on Lamarck, 89 —on Man, 111, 112, 137, 146, 156, 160, 163 —on Selection, 24, 91 —on transmission of acquired characters, 149 —14, 24, 104, 231-236, 273, 274

Hybrids, Sterility of, 104, 105, 106

Inheritance of acquired characters, 93, 94

Insects and Flowers, 60, 61, 78, 79

Instinct, 122, 172-175

Irish Elk, an example of coadaptation, 41, 42, 45

Jacoby, Studies in Selection by, 272

James, W., 180, 191, 211

Jentsch, 275

Kallima, protective colouring of, 35, 68, 70

K. inachis, 68

Kammerer's experiments on Salamanders, 28

Kant, I., 4, 5, 6, 27, 198, 211, 212, 217, 221, 222

Keane, on the Primates, 138

Keith, on Anthropoid Apes, 138

Kepler, 198

Klaatsch, on Ancestry of Man, 140

Klaatsch and Hauser, 134

Knies, 266

Kölliker, his views on Evolution, 29, 150

Kollmann, on origin of human races, 144

Korschinsky, 31

Krause, E., Foot Note 10, 13

Kropotkin, 214, 275

Lamarck, his division of the Animal Kingdom, 160, 161 —Darwin's opinion of, 129 —on Evolution, 9-14, 21, 25, 171, 172, 173, 179, 180, 201, 202, 253 —on Man, 146, 148, 160, 163 —89, 109, 201, 202, 233

Lamarckian principle, 28, 41-44, 50-54, 67, 84, 86

Lamb, C., 229

Lamettrie, 198

Lamprecht, 260-263

Lanessan, J. L. de, Foot Note 17, 275

Lang, Foot Note 21

Lange, 180

Language, Darwin on, 123, 124 —Evolution and the Science of, 178, 179, 188

Lankester, Sir E. Ray, on degeneration, 268 —on educability, 170, 189

Lankester, Sir E. Ray, on the germ-plasm theory, 150

Lapouge, Vacher de, 270

Lartet, M. E., 189

Lasalle, 266

Laveleye, de, 275

Lawrence, W., 89, Foot Note 65

Lehmann-Nitsche, 138, 144

Leibnitz, 4, 5, 213

Lepidoptera, variation in, 37, 60-63

Lessing, 4, 221

Liddon, H. P., 234

Limenitis archippus, 74

Linnaeus, 6

Locy, W. A., Foot Note 15

Lovejoy, Foot Note 56

Lubbock, 125

Lucretius, a poet of Evolution, 4

Lyell, Sir Charles, and Darwin, 23, 116 —the uniformitarian teaching of, 89

Macacus, ear of, 119

Mach, E., 153, 211

Mahoudeau, 137

Maillet, de, 6

Malthus, his influence on Darwin, 16-18, 21, 24, 91 —200, 273

Man, Descent of, 126, 127, 128, 131-145, 156-165, 189, 254, 265 —mental and moral qualities of animals and, 122-126, 164, 188-192 —pre-Darwinian views on the Descent of, 1

Man, Tertiary flints worked by, 136

Man, G. Schwalbe on Darwin's Descent of, 111-145

Manouvrier, 137

Mantis religiosa, colour experiments on, 65, 68

Marx, 262, 276-278

Matthew, P., and Natural Selection, 18, 19

Maupertuis, 6, 88, 103

Mayer, R., 197

Mechanitis lysimnia, 77

Melinaea ethra, 77

Mendel, 97-100, 184, 228

Merz, J. T.,Foot Note 14

Mesopithecus, 132

Mill, J. S., 193, 200, 202, 218

Mimicry, 70-82

Moltke, on war, 273

Monkeys, fossil, 132

Montesquieu, 248

Monticelli, 155

Morgan, C. Lloyd, on Mental Factors in Evolution, 166-196 —on Organic Selection, 53

Morgan, T. H., 99

Morselli, 138

Mortillet, 136

Moseley, Foot Note 224

Muller, Fritz, Für Darwin by, 154 —on Mimicry, 233 —59, 77

Muller, J., 147

Müller, Max, on language, 124

Mutation, 15, 31, 184, 199, 209

Nägeli, 109, 151, 153

Nathusius, 103

Natural Selection, Darwin's views on, 90, 91, 122, 149 —Darwin and Wallace on, 2, 163, 183 —and design, 241, 242 —and educability, 195 —and human development, 125, 256, 257 —16-20, 25, 26, 41, 55-58, 64-86, 87-96, 199, 233

Neandertal skulls, 133, 134

Neodarwinism, 150

Newton, A., Foot Note 59

Newton, I., 197, 198

Niebuhr, 249, 263

Nietzsche, 214, 271

Nitsche, 119

Novicow, 274

Nuttall, G. H. F., 135

Occam, 200

Odin, 270

Oecology, see Ecology

Oenothera lamarckiana, 32

Oestergren, on Holothurians, 37-39

Oken, L., 7, 201

Organic Selection, 53, 54, 172, 173

Orthogenesis, 109

Osborn, H. F., 53, Foot Note 165 —From the Greeks to Darwin by, 3-5, 12, 14, 20

Ovibos moschatus, 67

Owen, Sir Richard, 111

Packard, A. S., Foot Note 12, Foot Note 18

Palaeopithecus, 132

Paley, 18, 242, 244

Panmixia, Weismann's principle of, 54

Papilio dardanus, 72, 73, 74

P. meriones, 73

P. merope, 72

Pearson, K., Foot Note 7

Penck, 136

Peridineae, 33

Perrier, E., Foot Note 21, 20

Perthes, B. de, 123

Pfeffer, W., 28

Philosophy, influence of the conception of evolution on modern, 197-222

Pithecanthropus, 133, 134, 138, 143

Pitheculites, 144

Plate, Foot Note 37

Pliopithecus, 132

Pouchet, G., Foot Note 3

Poulton, E. B., experiments on Butterflies by, 65 —on J. C. Prichard, 20 —on Mimicry, 69, 71, 75, 78 —Foot Note 34, Foot Note 43, Foot Note 49, Foot Note 55

Prichard, J. C., 20, 21, 89, Foot Note 65

Pronuba yuccasella, 79

Protective resemblance, 65-70

Pusey, 115

Quatrefages, A. de, Foot Note 21, 19

Radiolarians, 33

Ranke, 249, 251, 255, 263

Rau, A., 153

Ray, J., 4

Regeneration, Foot Note 71

Religious thought, Darwin's influence on, 223-245

Reversion, 120, 121

Ridley, H. N., Foot Note 88

Ritchie, 270

Robinet, 6

Rolph, 217

Romanes, G. J., Foot Note 3, 15, 32, 54, 164, 234

Roux, 151, 152

Ruskin, 230

Rutot, 136

Saint-Hilaire, E. G. de, 8, 15, 20

Saltatory Evolution, 29-32 (see also Mutations)

Sanders, experiments on Vanessa by, 65

Savigny, 249

Schelling, 4, 5, 200, 201

Schleiden and Schwann, Cell-theory of, 147

Schoetensack, on Homo heidelbergensis, Foot Note 118

Schütt, 23

Schwalbe, G., on The Descent of Man, 111-145

Seeck, O., Foot Note 240

Segregation, 97, 98

Selection, artificial, 24, 25, 26, 41, 45, 120, 269-272 —germinal, 35, 36, 46-52, 64

Selection, natural (see Natural Selection) —organic, 53, 171, 172 —sexual, 55-64, 117, 118 —social and natural, 271 —23-86, 103, 129, 130

Selenka, 131

Semnopithecus, 132

Semon, R., 28, 153

Sergi, 138, 143

Sex, recent investigations on, 99, 100

Sibbern, 201

Smerinthus ocellata, 38

Smerinthus populi, 38

S. tiliae, 38

Smith, A., 200

Sociology, Darwinism and, 264-280 —History and, 255

Sollas, W. J., 134

Sorley, W. R., 217

Species and varieties, 100

Spencer, H., on evolution, 204-209 —on the theory of Selection, 41

Spencer, H., on Sociology, 268 —on the transmission of acquired characters, 149 —on Weismann, 41, 150 —2, 17, 217, 231, 268

Sphingidae, variation in, 37

Spinoza, 153, 206

Standfuss, 82

Stephen, L., 217

Sterility in hybrids, 104-106

Sterne, C, Foot Note 10

Struggle for existence, 25, 26, 272-274

Sutton, A. W., Foot Note 73

Synapta, calcareous bodies in skin of, 38-41

Syrphus, 75

Tarde, G., 279

Tennant, F. R., Foot Note 218

Tetraprothomo, 138, 144

Thomson, J. A., on Darwin's Predecessors, 1-22 —150 —and P. Geddes, 276

Treschow, 201

Treviranus, 8, 14, 15

Turgot, 249

Turner, Sir W., 150

Tylor, 267

Tyndall, W., 267

Tyrrell, G, Foot Note 222

Uhlenhuth, on blood reactions, 135

Use and disuse, 28, 41-43, 48-54, 94, 95, 119, 149

Vanessa, 63

V. levana, 31

V. polychloros, 82

V. urticae, 65, 82

Variability, Darwin's attention directed to, 24 —W. Bateson on, 87-110 —causes of, 200

Variation, Darwin's views as an evolutionist, and as a systematist, on, 212 —and heredity, 87-110 —minute, 28-32 —in relation to species, 100, 101

Varigny, H. de, 6, 19

Verworn, 136

Vestiges of Creation, Darwin on The, 15

Virchow, his opposition to Darwin, 157, 158 —on the transmission of acquired characters, 149

Vogt, 137

Voltaire, 248

Vries, H. de, the Mutation theory of, 31, 101, 151, 213

Waggett, Rev. P. N., on The Influence of Darwin upon Religious Thought, 223-245

Wallace, A. R., on Colour, 63, 71 —and Darwin, Foot Note 7, 23, 183 —on the Descent of Man, 116 —on Malthus, 17 —on Natural Selection, 2, 16, 163, 232

Wallace, A. R., on social reforms, 275, 276 —on Sexual Selection, 183, 184

Walton, 237

Watt, J., and Natural Selection, 21

Weismann, A., on The Selection Theory, 23-86 —his germ-plasm theory, 46-51, 149, 150 —and Prichard, 20 —and Spencer, 42

Weismann, A., on the transmission of acquired characters, 93-95 —156

Wells, W. C, and Natural Selection, 18

White, G., 3

Williams, C. M., 217

Wilson, E. B., on cytology, 99

Wolf, 249

Wollaston's, T. V., Variation of Species, Foot Note 59

Woltmann, 277

Woolner, 118

Wundt, on language, 207, 208

Xylina vetusta, 82

Yucca, fertilisation of, 78, 79

Zeller, E., Foot Note 3

Zoonomia, Erasmus Darwin's, 7

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Notes in this chapter

Note 3 · See G. J. Romanes, "Aristotle as a Naturalist," Contemporary Review, Vol. lix. p. 275, 1891; G. Pouchet, La Biologie Aristotélique, Paris, 1Note 6 · See Brock, "Die Stellung Kant's zur Deszendenztheorie," Biol. Centralbl. viii. 1889, pp. 641-648. Fritz Schultze, Kant und Darwin, Jena, 187Note 7 · Mr. Alfred Russel Wallace writes: "We claim for Darwin that he is the Newton of natural history, and that, just so surely as that the discovNote 10 · See Carus Sterne (Ernst Krause), Die allgemeine Weltanschauung in ihrer historischen Entwickelung. Stuttgart, 1889. Chapter entitled "BestänNote 12 · See Alpheus S. Packard, Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution, His Life and Work, with Translations of his writings on Organic Evolution. LondonNote 13 · See Edward Clodd, Pioneers of Evolution, London, p. 161, 1897.Note 14 · See Chapter ix. "The Genetic View of Nature" in J. T. Merz's History of European Thought in the Nineteenth Century, Vol. 2, Edinburgh and LoNote 15 · See Prof. W. A. Locy's Biology and its Makers. New York, 1908. Part II. "The Doctrine of Organic Evolution."Note 17 · See in particular Samuel Butler, Evolution Old and New, London, 1879; J. L. de Lanessan, "Buffon et Darwin," Revue Scientifique, XLIII. pp. Note 18 · op. cit. p. 136.Note 21 · See E. Perrier, La Philosophie Zoologique avant Darwin, Paris, 1884; A. de Quatrefages, Darwin et ses Précurseurs Français, Paris, 1870; PacNote 32 · See Prof. Patrick Geddes's article "Variation and Selection," Encyclopaedia Britannica (9th edit.) 1888.Note 2 · See Poulton, Essays on Evolution, Oxford, 1908. pp. xix-xxii.Note 4 · Chun, Reise der Valdivia, Leipzig, 1904.Note 5 · Plate, Selektionsprinzip u. Probleme der Artbildung (3rd edit.), Leipzig, 1908.Note 11 · See Poulton, Essays on Evolution, 1908, pp. 316, 317.Note 3 · Professor Poulton has corrected some wrong descriptions which I had unfortunately overlooked in the Plates of my book Vorträge über DescendeNote 9 · Variation under Domestication, 1875, ii. pp. 426, 427.Note 1 · Vénus Physique, contenant deux Dissertations, l'une sur l'origine des Hommes et des Animaux; Et l'autre sur l'origine des Noirs, La Haye, 17Note 2 · For the fullest account of the views of these pioneers of Evolution, see the works of Samuel Butler, especially Evolution, Old and New (2nd Note 4 · See the chapter contributed to the Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, ii. p. 195. I do not clearly understand the sense in which Darwin wroNote 6 · Whatever be our estimate of the importance of Natural Selection, in this we all agree. Samuel Butler, the most brilliant, and by far the mosNote 10 · W. Lawrence was one of the few who consistently maintained the contrary opinion. Prichard, who previously had expressed himself in the same Note 11 · It is interesting to see how nearly Butler was led by natural penetration, and from absolutely opposite conclusions, back to this underlyingNote 12 · This view is no doubt contrary to the received opinion. I am however interested to see it lately maintained by Driesch (Science and PhilosopNote 16 · I have in view, for example, the marvellous and specific phenomena of regeneration, and those discovered by the students of "EntwicklungsmecNote 18 · See Sutton, A. W., Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxviii. p. 341, 1908.Note 14 · Ibid. Vol. III. p. 236. ["C. Ridley," Mr. Francis Darwin points out to me, should be H. N. Ridley. A.C.S.]Note 44 · Since this essay was written Schoetensack has discovered near Heidelberg and briefly described an exceedingly interesting lower jaw from rocNote 13 · Independently suggested, on somewhat different lines, by Profs. J. Mark Baldwin, Henry F. Osborn and the writer.Note 11 · The new science of Ecology occupies an intermediate position between the biography of species and the biography of individuals. Compare CongNote 1 · F. R. Tennant: "The Being of God in the light of Physical Science," in Essays on some theological questions of the day. London, 1905.Note 4 · Such an example is given in Baron F. von Hügel's recently finished book, the result of thirty years' research: The Mystical Element of ReligNote 5 · G. Tyrrell, in Mediaevalism, has a chapter which is full of the important moral element in a scientific attitude. "The only infallible guardNote 7 · The scientific rank of its writer justifies the insertion of the following letter from the late Sir John Burdon-Sanderson to me. In the lectNote 1 · A society presents suggestive analogies with an organism, but it certainly is not an organism, and sociologists who draw inferences from theNote 2 · It is to be observed that history is (not only different in scope but) not co-extensive with anthropology in time. For it deals only with thNote 3 · Recently O. Seeck has applied these principles to the decline of Graeco-Roman civilisation in his Untergang der antiken Welt, 2 vols., Berli
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