II. 



MR. MIVART ON DARWINISM. 



IT can hardly be said that in this volume 1 Mr. 

 Mivart has brought any new contribution to the 

 discussion of evolution and its consequences, though 

 he has succeeded in marshalling together, in a goodly 

 phalanx, the various doubts, objections, and miscon- 

 ceptions with which the question has disturbed the 

 peace of his mind. The book is so polemic as quite 

 to belie its placid and decorous title. The Lessons 

 from Nature turn out to be a series of eager assaults 

 upon "Darwinians" and "Agnostics," mingled with 

 jeremiads over the tendency of the times when such 

 perverted thinkers can obtain such extensive follow- 

 ing. Though it would be unfair to say that there is 

 no trace of a disposition to interrogate nature calmly 



1 Lessons from Nature, as manifested in Mind and Matter. By St. 

 George Mivart. New York : D. Appleton & Co. 1876. 



