THE DESCENT OF MAN, 
AND 
SELECTION IN RELATION TO SEX. 
BY 
CHAS, DARWIN, M.A, F.R.5. 
Two Vols. 12mo. 
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In these volumes Mr. Darwin has brought forward all the facts and 
arguments which science has to offer in favor of the doctrine that man 
has arisen by gradual development from the lowest point of animal life. 
He had originally intended this work as a posthumous publication, but 
the extensive acceptance of the views unfolded in his book on the “ Origin 
of Species” induced him to believe that the public were ripe for the most 
advanced deductions from his theory of “‘ Natural Selection.” Aside from 
the logical purpose which Mr. Darwin had in view, his work is an original 
and fascinating contribution to the most interesting portion of natural 
history. 
From the London Spectator. 
‘For our part, we find Dr. Darwin’s vindication of the origin of man a far more 
wouderful vindication of Theism than Paley’s ‘ Natural Theology,’ though we do 
not know, so reticent is his style, whether or not he conceives it himself.” 
From the Citizen and Round Table. 
“Even the charge of atheism, which was so violently urged against Mr. Dar- 
win, is now rarely heard, and theologians, whose orthodoxy is unquestioned, have 
ventured to admit that it is possible to believe both in Christianity and the Dar- 
winian theory at the same time.” 
From the Charleston Courier. 
“No one can rise from an ordinarily attentive consideration of Mr. Darwin’s 
treatise, without being impressed, not only with the extent and depth of the 
knowledge which he has attained upon the subject under treatment, and his long, 
unwearied labor in collecting facts, but also with his possession of qualities 
equally rare—the true scientific temper, the transparent candor, and the truth- 
eecking soberness, with which he expresses to you his conclusions, and the pro- 
cesses by which he reaches them. 
“Whether you like his discourse or not—though you may refuse to acquiesce 
in his conclusions—still you are compelled to bear your witness, that this man 
has not been laboring to find facts to support a preconceived theory, but that the 
theory is the irrepressible outgrowth of his accumulated facts.” 
From the Evening Bulletin. 
‘““This theory is now indorsed by many eminent scientists, who at first com- 
bated it, including Sir Charles Lyell, probably the most learned of living geolo- 
gists, and even by a class of Christian divines like Dr. McCosh, who think that 
certain theories of cosmogony, like the nebular hypothesis and the law of evolu- 
tion, may be accepted without doing violence to faith.” 
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