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PIONEERS OF EVOLUTION, from Thales to 

 Huxley. By Edward Clodd, President of the Folk-Lore 

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 'Primitive' Man," etc. With Portraits. i2mo. Cloth, $1.50 



"The mass of interesting material which Mr. Clodd has got together and 

 woven into a symmetrical story of the progress from ignorance and theory to 

 knowledge and the intelligent recording of fact is prodigious. . . . The 

 ' goal ' to which Mr. Clodd leads us in so masterly a fashion is but the start- 

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" We are always glad to meet Mr. Clodd. He is never dull ; he is always 

 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. 

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"This is it book which was needed. . . . Altogether, the book could 

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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 

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" Can not but prove welcome to fair-minded men. . . . To read it is to 

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 survey of the growth of the most powerful idea of modern times." — Tht 

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