THE DESCENT OF MAN, 



AND 



SELECTION IN RELATION TO SEX. 



BY 



CHAS. PAR WIN, M. A., F, E. S, 



Two Vols., 12mo. 



PRICE, ..... $4.00 



In these volumes Mr. Darwin has brought forward all the facts and 

 arguments which science has to offer in favor of the doctrine that man 

 has arisen by gradual development from the lowest point of animal life. 

 He had originally intended this work as a posthumous publication, but 

 the extensive acceptance of the views unfolded in his book on the " Origin 

 of Species " induced him to believe that the public were ripe for the most 

 advanced deductions from his theory of "Natural Selection." Aside from 

 the logical purpose which Mr. Darwin had in view, his work is an original 

 and fascinating contribution to the most interesting portion of natural 



history. 



From the London Spectator, 



"For our part, we find Dr. Darwin's vindication of the origin of man a far more 

 wonderful vindication of Theism than Paley's ' Natural Theology,' though we do 

 not know, so reticent is his style, whether or not he conceives it himself/' 

 From the Citizen and Round Table. 



" Even the charge of atheism, which was so violently urged against Mr. Dar- 

 win, is now rarely heard, and theologians, whose orthodoxy is unquestioned, have 

 ventured to admit that it is possible to believe both in Christianity and the Dar- 

 winian theory at the same time." 



From the Charleston Courier. 



"No one can rise from an ordinarily attentive consideration of Mr. Darwin's 

 treatise, without being impressed, not only' with the extent and depth of the 

 knowledge which he has attained upon the subject under treatment, and his long, 

 unwearied labor in collecting facts, but also with his possession of qualities 

 equally rare the true scientific temper, the transparent candor, and the truth- 

 seeking soberness, with which he expresses to you his conclusions, and the pro- 

 cesses oy which he reaches them. 



" Whether you like his discourse or not though you may refuse to acquiesce 

 in his conclusions still you are compelled to bear your witness, that this man 

 has not been laboring to find facts to support a preconceived theory, but that the 

 theory is the irrepressible outgrowth of his accumulated facts." 

 From the Evening Bulletin. 



" This theory is now indorsed by many eminent scientists, who at first com- 

 bated it, including Sir Charles Lyell, probably the most learned of living geolo- 

 gists, and even by a class of Christian divines like Dr. McCosh, who think that 

 certain theories of cosmogony, like the nebular hypothesis and the law of evolu- 

 tion, may be accepted without doing violence to faith." 



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