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PIONEERS OF EVOLUTION, from Thales to 
Huxley, By Epwarp CLopp, President of the Folk-Lore 
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‘Primitive’ Man,” etc. With Portraits. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50. 
‘“‘The mass of interesting material which Mr. Clodd has got together and 
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knowledge and the intelligent recording of fact is prodigious. . . . The 
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ing point of fresh achievements, and, in due course, fresh theories. His 
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Daily Chronicle. 
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well informed, and he says what he has to say with clearness and precision. 
. .. The interest intensifies as Mr. Clodd attempts to show the part really 
played in the growth of the doctrine of evolution by men like Wallace, Dar- 
win, Huxley, and Spencer. . . . We commend the book to those who want 
to know what evolution really means.”—London Times. 
“This is a book which was needed. . . . Altogether, the book could 
hardly be better done. It is luminous, lucid, orderly, and temperate. Above 
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sound judgment.”—London Academy. 
‘«-We can assure the reader that he will find in this work a very useful guide 
to the lives and labors of leading evolutionists of the past and present. 
Especially serviceable is the account of Mr. Herbert Spencer and his share in 
rediscovering evolution, and illustrating its relations to the whole field of 
human knowledge. His forcible style and wealth of metaphor make all that 
Mr. Clodd writes arrestive and interesting.”—Lozdon Literary World, 
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have an object-lesson in the meaning of evolution. . . . There is no better 
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survey of the growth of the most powerful idea of modern times.”— 7/6 
Scotsman, 
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