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original thinker, whose pages are continually suggestive, even- 

 though their general argujjtent may not be entirely concurrent in 

 direction with that of modern cheinical thought,^'^ 



Mivart 



ON THE GENESIS OF SPECIES. 



'.* 



By St. George Mivart, F.R.S. Crown 8vo. Second Edition, 



to which notes have been added in reference and reply to Darwin's- 

 ''Descent of Man." With numerous Illustrations, pp. xv. 296. 



The aim of the author is to support the doctrine that the various 

 species have been evolved by ordinary natural laws (for the most 

 part unknown) controlled by the subordinate action of ^^ natural 

 selection,^^ and at the same time to remind some that there is and 

 can be absolutely nothing in physical science which forbids them, to 

 regaj'd those natural laws as acting with the Divine concurrence, 

 and in obedience to a creative fiat originally imposed on the primeval 



.^.,.,..,.^, ' by its Creator, its Upholder, and its 

 Lord, Nearly fifty woodcuts illustrate the letter-press, and a com- 

 plete index makes all references extremely easy, Canoit Kingsley^ 

 in his address to the ^^ Devonshire Association,^^ says, ^^ Let mere- 

 conwiend earnestly to you, as a specimen of what can be said on the 

 other side, the * Genesis of Species,^ by Mr, St, George Mivart, 

 F,R,S,, a book which I am happy to say has been received elsewhere 

 as it has deserved, and, I trust, will be received so among you.^^ 

 ^^ In no zvork in the English language has this g^^eat controversy 

 been treated ^ at once with the same broad and vigorous grasp 

 of facts, and the same liberal aiid candid temper, '^'^ — Saturday 

 Review. 



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