CONTENTS. ix 



ARTICLE V. 



SEQUOIA AND ITS HISTORY : THE RELATIONS OF NORTH AMERICAN TO NORTH- 

 EASTERN ASIAN AND TO TERTIARY VEGETATION. 



PAGE 



Age and Size of Sequoia. — Isolation. — Decadence. — Related Ge- 

 nera. — Former Distribution. — Similarity between the Flora of 

 Japan and that of the United States, especially on the Atlantic 

 Side. — Former Glaciation as explaining the Present Dispersion 

 of Species. — This confirmed by the Arctic Fossil Flora of the 

 Tertiary Period. — Tertiary Flora derived from the Preceding 

 Cretaceous. — Order and Adaptation in Organic Nature likened 

 to a Flow. — Order implies an Ordainer .... 205 



ARTICLE VI. 



THE ATTITUDE OF WORKING NATURALISTS TOWARD DASWIN1SM. 



General Tendency to Acceptance of the Derivative Hypothesis 

 noted. — Lyell, Owen, Alphonse De Candolle, Bentham, Flower, 

 Allman. — Dr. Dawson's " Story of the Earth and Man " exam- 

 ined. — Difference between Scientific Men and General Specu- 

 lators or Amateurs in the Use of Hypotheses. . , . 236 



ARTICLE VII. 



EVOLUTION AND THEOLOGY. 



Writings of Henslow, Hodges, and Le Conte examined. — Evolu- 

 tion and Design compatible. — The Admission of a System of 

 Nature, with Fixed Laws, concedes in Principle all that the 

 Doctrine of Evolution requires. — Hypotheses, Probabilities, 

 and Surmises, not to be decried by Theologians, who use them, 

 perhaps, more freely and loosely than Naturalists. — Theolo- 

 gians risk too much in the Defense of Untenable Outposts . 252 



ARTICLE VIII. 



" WHAT IS DARWINISM ? " 



Dr. Hodge's Book with this Title criticised. — He declares that Dar- 

 winism is Atheism, yet its Founder a Tlieist. — Darwinism 



