360 FROM THE GREEKS TO DARWIN 



monism, movement, mutability, mutation, muti- 

 lation, naturalism, nature, nomenclature, ontog- 

 eny, order in nature, organs, origin of life, origin 

 of man, origin of species, palaeontology, pangene- 

 sis, parthenogenesis, perfecting principle, phy- 

 logeny, plasticity, predetermination, prepotency 

 of characters, progression, reasoning, recapitula- 

 tion, respiration, reversion, saltation, scale of 

 life, selection (artificial, natural, sexual), sensi- 

 bility, special creation, species, speculation, spon- 

 taneous generation, structure, struggle for ex- 

 istence, successive creations, survival of fittest, 

 teleology, teratology, theologj^ transformation, 

 transformism, transmission of acquired charac- 

 ters, transmutation, type, uniformitarianism, 

 unity of plan, use and disuse, variability, varia- 

 tion, variety, wants of animals. 



As pointed out in the concluding chapter on 

 Charles Darwin, and as more fully explained in 

 the succeeding volume of this series {Impressions 

 of Great Naturalists), these anticipations of 

 Evolution were largely unknown to Darwin and 

 had relatively little influence on his mind ; it was 

 from his own observation and original powers of 

 generalization that the great principle of animal 

 and plant evolution was finally given to the 

 world with convincing and irresistible evidence. 



