THE PRESENT EVOLUTION OF MAN 



By G. Archdall Reid. 



PRESS OPINIONS 



" The whole essay, besides being exceedingly well reasoned, 

 is remarkable for its thoroughly scientific use of the imagination. 

 .... probably the most skilful defence yet put forth on 

 behalf of that theory of heredity which excludes all inheritance 

 of characters acquired in the life-time of the individual." — 

 AthencRum. 



" To make the obscure lucid, to open in one volume a new 

 land to the layman, and a wider prospect to the scientist, are 

 surely no mean achievements. Yet Mr Reid does these, and 

 more, in the ' Present Evolution of Man,' a book full of learning 

 and suggestiveness. . . . The mantle of the late Professor 

 Romanes seems to have descended on worthy shoulders." — 

 World. 



" Distinctly an original and practical contribution of high 

 importance. . . . The whole argument of the volume is 

 extremely suggestive and valuable." — Daily Telegraph. 



" A keen and original thinker. . . . This extremely difficult 

 subject is handled with real lucidity and originaHty. ... A true 

 and discriminating sketch of what it is, at the present day, 

 reasonable to hold in regard to the development of mind . . . 

 highly interesting and suggestive." — Prof. E. Ray Lankester, 

 in The Fortnightly Review. 



"This volume of Mr Reid's is of a far different quality to 

 those which are too familiar to us. It is a very remarkable work, 

 and one which deserves careful study. ... An accurate and 

 powerful thinker." — British Medical Journal. 



" A monograph which is crowded with illustrative data and 

 well-reasoned arguments. ... A work which, as we have said 

 above, requires to be read again and again, for it teems with 

 suggestive, if at times daring, ideas." — Lancet. 



"A very excellent discussion of the broad principles of 

 evolution. . . The argument against the transmission of 

 acquired characters, as ordinarily understood, appears to the 

 writer conclusive. . . . There is no doubt that Mr Reid's dis- 



