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descended from other species." He refers to 

 some six or eight other scientists, as teaching 

 the same doctrine. This idea of Evohition 

 was j)rominently presented and elaborated in 

 the " Vestiges of Creation," first pubhshed in 

 1844. Ulrici, Professor in the University of 

 Halle, Germany, in his work " Gott mid die 

 Natur," says that the doctrine of evolution 

 took no hold on the minds of scientific men, 

 but was positively rejected by the most emi- 

 nent physiologists, among whom he mentions 

 J. Mtiller, R. Wagner, Bischofi*, Hoffinann, and 

 others.-^ The Rev. George Henslow, Lecturer 

 on Botany at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, 

 London, himself a pronounced evolutionist, 

 says the theories of Lamarck and of the '' Ves- 

 tiges of Creation " have given place to that 

 of Mr. Darwin ; " and there are not wanting 

 many symptoms of decay in the acceptance 

 even of his. Not only has he considerably 

 modified his views in later editions of the 

 ' Origin of Species,' distinctly expressing the 

 opinion that he attributed too great influence 

 to natural selection, but even men of science, 

 Owen, Huxley, — and at least in its application 



1 Gott und die Natur. Von D. Hermann Ulrici. Zweite 

 Auflage. Leipzig, 1866, p. 394. 

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