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subjects, we may well believe that far more scientific work would 

 be accomplished in the same length of time. 



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CxENESlS OF MAN.* 



In a pamphlet of sixty-four pages Mr. Ward has published 

 three papers, originally printed in the Fenn Mo?ithly, which, from 

 the care bestowed upon them, and the study given to the writings 

 of Hackel by the author, are sure to be valued by the American 

 jniblic. It is evident that the writer is a great admirer of the 

 (ierman savant and philosopher. Whether we are prepared to 

 accept the conclusions reached by this truly great and noble 

 intellect, leading, as they do, from fact and analogy to a stern 

 materialism by strictly scientific processes of reasoning, depends, 

 in great measure perhaps, upon our knowledge of the facts and 

 principles upon which they are founded. Hackel does not shrink 

 from boldly following the results of scientific work to their 

 ultimate consequences, and while we owe to Charles Darwin the 

 first public recognition of the doctrine of descent, to Hackel's 

 researches we are indebted for the strongest basis upon which this 

 theory rests. 



Notwithstanding the indications derived from the study of adult 

 living and fossil forms, and however great the influences of cli- 

 mate or conditions of life may be, these cannot, it seems to us, 

 carry with them the same force of argument that may be drawn 

 from the results of embryological study. 



* Hackel's Genesis of Man. By Lester F. Ward, A.M. Philadelphia: 

 Edwards Stern & Co. 



