CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I. 



PAGE 



INTRODUCTORY: THE "DEATH-BED OF DAR- 

 WINISM" i 



Modern activity in biologic study, i. Darwinism not 

 synonymous with evolution, 3. Present-day anti-Darwin- 

 ism, 4. Intemperate ^anti- Darwinism, 6. Outline of this 

 book, 7. 



APPENDIX: Dennert's intemperate attack on Darwinism, 

 7. An anti-evolution university biologist, 8. Friedmann's 

 theory to replace evolution with divergence, 8. 



CHAPTER II. 



DARWINISM AND EVOLUTION DEFINED AND 



DISTINGUISHED 10 



Animal and plant kinds originate in one of three ways, 

 10. The theory of descent defined, n. The theory of 

 descent given validity by Darwin's explanation of the 

 cause of it, 12. Darwinism defined and analysed into its 

 fundamental assumptions and facts, 13. Sources of scien- 

 tific evidence for the theory of descent, 17. Relation of 

 theology, philosophy, pedagogy, and sociology to the 

 theory of descent, 20. 



APPENDIX: Accounts of history of the descent theory, 

 22. Books giving the evidences for descent, 23. Dis- 

 cussions of the relation of descent and theology, 23. 

 Discussions of the relations of biology and philosophy, 24. 

 Biology and sociology, 24. 



CHAPTER III. 



DARWINISM ATTACKED . 25 



The attack of the theologians, 25. The present-day 

 attack of the scientific men, 25. Some of the principal 

 objections to natural selection summarised, 30. Darwinian 

 or fluctuating variations too small to serve as "handles" 



