THE EVOLUTION OF SPECIES 



Darwin Factors in Evolution Law of Progress Selection- 

 Time Element. 



ATTEMPTS have been made to get rid of the conclusion 

 that the organised world is the work of mind. Tyndal, 

 Haeckel, and others have boldly maintained that the 

 potencies necessary to its evolution are to be found in 

 matter ; that there is no need to go beyond it, or behind 

 it, above it, or beneath it, to find a cause of its order. 

 Haeckel, with fierce energy and great wealth of language 

 and argumentation, with a high sense of his own superi- 

 ority to weakness, with a lofty scorn of the black-coated 

 fraternity and all the feeble-minded race who believe in 

 an intelligent creator, Haeckel fights for monism as for 

 life. Atoms alone are; atoms have of themselves built 

 up the great globe and all that it inhabit. Amongst 

 atoms, we have seen, he gives the chief and ruling place 

 to carbon. He places it on the throne. Coke is the lord 

 of creation. Coke is the all-ordering maker of the vast 

 kosmos. Carbon is the mighty atom. Carbon is God. 



By the publication of The Origin of Species in 1859 

 Charles Darwin introduced a new era in the history of 

 biology. The doctrine of evolution, which had been 

 propounded long before, but had remained very much in 

 the background, made in his hands a great leap forward, 



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