Note 107 — Appendix to The Monist, Vol. II, No. 4

In this connection we call attention to a book, Kant und Darwin, ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Entwickelungslehre, Jena, 1875, by Fritz Schultze, formerly Privat docent in Jena, now Professor of philosophy at the Polytechnic Institute in Dresden. This little book is a collection of the most important passages of Kant’s views concerning evolution, the struggle for existence, and the theory of selection, and it is astonishing to find how much Kant had to say on the subject and how strongly he agrees with and anticipates Darwin. If Kant had not lived before Darwin one might be tempted to conclude that he was familiar with his Origin of Species and The Descent of Man.