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plants, he had arrived at exactly the same general views 

 regarding the origin of organic species as Darwin. Lyell 

 and Hooker, both of whom had long known Darwin's 

 work, now induced him to publish a short extract from his 

 manuscripts simultaneously with the manuscript sent him 

 by Wallace. They appeared in the Journal of the Linnean 

 Society, August, 1858. 



Darwin's great work "On the Origin of Species," in 

 which the Theory of Selection is carried out in detail, ap- 

 peared in November, 1859. Darwin himself, however, 

 characterizes this book (of which a fifth edition appeared 

 in 1869, and the German translation by Bronn as early as 

 1860)^ as only a preliminary extract from a larger and 

 more detailed work, which is to contain a mass of facts in 

 favour of his theory, and comprehensive and experimental 

 proofs. The first part of the larger work promised by 

 Darwin appeared in 18C8, under the title, " The Variations 

 of Animals and Plants in the State of Domestication," and 

 has been translated into German by Victor Carus.^* It con- 

 tains a rich abundance of the most valuable evidence as 

 to the extraordinary changes of organic forms which man 

 can produce by cultivation and artificial selection. How- 

 ever much we are indebted to Darwin for this abundance of 

 convincing facts, still we do not by any means share the 

 opinion of those natm*alists who hold that the Theory of 

 Selection requires for its actual proof these further details. 

 It is our opinion that Darwin's first work, which appeared 

 in 1859, already contains sufficient proof The unassailable 

 strength of his theory does not lie in the immense amount 

 of individual facts that may be adduced as proofs, but in 

 the harmonious connection of all the great and general phe- 



