CONTENTS, 



PACE 



INTRODUCTION— Summary of the Results of Linguistic Inquiry 

 — Positive Knowledge preliminary to the Doctrine of 

 Descent — Belief in Miracle— The Limits of the Investi- 

 gation of Nature i 



II. 



The Animal World in its Present State 24 



IIL 

 The Phenomena of Reproduction in the Animal World. . 39 



IV. 

 The Animal World in its Historical and Pal.eontological 



Development 60 



V. 



The Standpoint of the Miraculous, and the Investigation 

 OF Nature— Creation or Natural Development— Linn.cus 

 — Cuvier—Agassiz— Examination of the Idea of Species . 82 



VI. 



Natural Philosophy— Goethe- Predestined Transformation 



according to Richard Owen — Lamarck 104 



