8 E VOL U TION A ND DOGMA. 



CHAPTER IV. 



SPONTANEOUS GENERATION AND SCIENTIFIC 

 DISCOVERY. 



PAGBS 



EARLY Views Regarding Abiogenesis Fathers and School- 

 men on Abiogenesis Redi's Experiments Later 

 Researches General Advance in Science Chemistry 

 and Astronomy Testimony of Biology 4'~54 



CHAPTER V. 



FROM LORD BACON TO CHARLES DARWIN. 



FIRST Materials for the Controversy Bacon and Kant 

 Linnaeus and Buffon Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck 

 Species and Varieties 55~64 



CHAPTER VI. 



CONTROVERSY AND PROGRESS. 



DARWIN'S " Origin of Species " Herbert Spencer and Com- 

 peers Science and Philosophy Anticipations of 

 Discoveries Species and Creation Evolutionists 

 and Anti-Evolutionists No Via Media Possible 

 The Miltonic Hypothesis Views of Agassiz Evolu- 

 tion 65-83 



CHAPTER VII. 



EVIDENCES OF EVOLUTION. 



SYSTEMS of Classification Cuvier and His Successors 

 Points of View Taxonomic Divisions Plato's "Grand 

 Ideas " Cuvier on Species Definition of Species 

 Difficulties Regarding Species Agassiz' Views 

 Species in the Making De Candolle and Baird 

 Evidences of Organic Evolution A Philological Illus- 

 tration Tree-like System of Classification The Ar- 

 gument from Structure and Morphology Rudimentary 

 Organs Argument from Embryology Amphioxus 



