THE NATUR-PHILOSOPHIE. 99 
‘twavagant fancies may be found in Oken’s philosophy of 
nature, they must not prevent us paying our just admira- 
tion to these grand ideas, which were so far in advance of 
their age. This much is clearly evident from the statements 
of Goethe and Oken which we ‘have quoted, and from the 
views of Lamarck and Geoffroy which have to be discussed 
next, that during the first decade of our century no 
doctrine approached so nearly to the natural Theory of 
Descent, newly established by Darwin, as the much decried 
“ Natur-philosophie.” 
