60 THE TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE ANIMAL WORLD 



Edwards, Gervais, de Lacaze-Duthiers, and so 

 many others, by these rather too imaginative ten- 

 dencies of the evolutionist school, and remained 

 attached to the more patient but surer method of 

 the strict examination of facts. Moreover, the 

 bursts of social philosophy which mark nearly 

 every page of Haeckel's work, by accentuating 

 the combative turn of this book strongly tended 

 to repel from evolution those naturalists who 

 seek, without prejudice, in the study of nature, 

 reasons of the positive order before adhering to even 

 the most seductive hypotheses. 



