CONTENTS. 



ARTICLE V. 



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

 EASTERN ASIAN AND TO TERTIARY VEGETATION. 



PAGK 



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 DARWINISM. 



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 



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

 winism is Atheism, yet its Founder a Theist. Darwinism 



