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Analyses of Books. 
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The Story of the Earth and Man . By J. W. Dawson, LL.D., 
F.R.S., F.G.S. Sixth Edition. London : Hodder and 
Stoughton. 
When a work has, like the one before us, reached its sixth edi- 
tion, the task of the reviewer is greatly simplified. To give an 
analysis of the book, to expound the author’s views, and to point 
out what in our judgment is deserving of approval or of censure, 
is no longer needful. We can merely say that to us it is painful 
in the extreme to find a man whose abilities are indisputable, 
and whose services to science we are happy to recognise, so led 
away as to offer a protracted and disingenuous opposition to the 
greatest reform in Science which has been effected since the 
overthrow of the Ptolemean astronomy. How anyone with the 
remotest claims to candour can still look upon Evolution as op- 
posed to creation is a problem we are unable to solve. No 
less painful are the personalities directed against opponents. 
Thus Prof. St. George Mivart, being a Catholic, is encountered 
in “ No Popery ” style, almost worthy of Lord George Gordon 
and his followers. If Darwinism is wholly or in part a 
mistake, if Evolutionism is altogether a delusion, let this be 
shown in a scientific manner and by arguments analogous in 
their spirit to those used when chemical and physical theories 
are under discussion. Principal Dawson, by his constant appeal 
to the odium theologicum , puts himself completely out of court. 
Some Teachings of Development. Being the Substance of the 
last two of a Series of Twelve LeCtures on Animal Deve- 
lopment, delivered at the Royal Institution during the 
months of January, February, and March, 1879. By E. A. 
Schafer, F.R.S., Fullerian Professor of Physiology. Lon- 
don : H. K. Lewis. 
We have here, in the brief compass of three-and-thirty pages, a 
sound and valuable antidote to the reckless and passionate as- 
sertions of such men as Prof. Swallow and Principal J. W. 
Dawson. The author shows clearly and convincingly that the 
successive phases in the development of the individual represent 
similar phases in the process of formation or development of the 
race to which the individual belongs. Development, therefore, 
represents descent. The ancestors of every animal have suc- 
cessively exhibited structural conditions which in an abridged 
form are represented by the successive stages of development of 
the individual. This, the author justly says, is “ the only logical 
conclusion to which the study of animal development leads.” 
