III. 



DARWIN'S NATURAL SELECTION. 



In the year 1906, the paper which has the 

 largest circulation among English Socialists, 

 "The Clarion," took a vote of its readers as to 

 whom they considered to be the greatest man, 

 the man who had contributed most to the 

 progress of the race, which England had pro- 

 duced. By an overwhelming majority the 

 place of honor went to Charles Darwin. That 

 vote was as much a vindication of English 

 Socialists as it was of the man whose name 

 has become almost a synonym for "modern 

 science." 



Liebknecht, in his "Biographical Memoirs 

 of Karl Marx, speaking of Marx and himself, 

 says: "When Darwin drew the consequences 

 of his investigations and presented them to 

 the public, we spoke for months of nothing else 

 but Darwin and the revolutionizing power of 

 his scientific conquests." 



Leopold Jacoby writes thus: "The same 

 year in which appeared Darwin's book (1859) 

 and coming from a quite different direction, an 

 identical impulse was given to a very im- 



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