xii Contents. 



FAOH 



Five Points of the Modern Theory anticipated by 

 the Greeks Introduction of the Notion of Evolu 

 tion into Modern Science by Kant, Goethe, Eras 

 mus Darwin, Saint Hilaire, Lamarck, and Lyell 

 The Problem of Darwin Importance of his Ob 

 servations on the Formation of Domestic Breeds 

 by Man s Conscious Selection Natural Selection 

 suggested by Malthus s Essay Fecundity of Or 

 ganismsStruggle for Life Survival of Favored 

 Individuals begins the Formation of Species 

 Man s Relation to the ApesDarwinism distin 

 guished from Evolutionism How regarded by 

 Helmholtz, Virchow, Wallace, and Huxley Net 

 ResultSignificance for Ethics Dread of Science 

 an Anachronism, ..... 40 



CHAPTER III. 



THE PHILOSOPHICAL INTERPRETATION OF THE DARWIN 

 IAN HYPOTHESIS. 



Darwin gives a Scientific Explanation of the Origin of 

 Species Need of a Philosophical Analysis of that 

 Explanation Significance of the Variations on 

 which Natural Selection works They originate, 

 ultimately, in the Nature of the Organism They 

 are Indefinite, according to Darwin, but the 

 Theory of Natural Selection does not require 

 that View, which is not shared by Huxley and Asa 

 Gray Natural Selection is the Scientific Account 

 of the Accumulation of Favorable Variations into 

 Specific Characters, but the Phrase is apt to mis 

 lead through Metaphorical Associations Specula 

 tive License of the Darwinists What is explained 

 and what is still left a Mystery by Natural Selec 

 tion Human and Natural Selection dependent 

 upon Transcendent Causation Darwin s Pro- 



