CHAPTER XVIII. 



1858-1864 (continued'). 



DARWIN'S "ORIGIN OF SPECIES" CUVIER, AGASSIZ, OWEN, LAMARCK, 

 AND DARWIN THE OPPONENTS OF AGASSIZ IN AMERICA ASA 

 GRAY AND CHAUNCEY WRIGHT - - PARALLEL BETWEEN CHAUNCEY 

 WRIGHT AND KARL SCHIMPER Two CLASSES OF NATURALISTS 

 REVOLUTION AND EVOLUTION PIETIST AND ATHEIST -- LYELL'S 

 DISSENT -- NEO-LAMARCKIANS AND NEO- DARWINIANS UNIFORMI- 

 TARIANISM SPONTANEOUS GENERATION TRUE POSITION OF CUVIER 

 AND AGASSIZ. 



DARWIN'S "Origin of Species" appeared in London, 

 the first of October, 1859, a f w days after Agassiz's 

 return from Europe. The book was a disappointment 

 to almost all naturalists. It had been heralded several 

 years before it was issued as an event which was likely 

 to revolutionize natural science, and so it did. Our friend 

 Sir Charles Lyell more especially was enthusiastic and 

 mysterious about it ; but six months after its publica- 

 tion, when I visited him in London, I found him rather 

 more frightened than pleased. He says, " Darwin goes 

 too far. I am not prepared to follow him on natural 

 selection and the geological succession of organic beings; 

 the last more especially is still too incomplete to draw 

 such sweeping conclusions." 



In England adherence to, and even sympathy with, 



