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partisanship. Each chief actor is sympathetically treated,
and friendship is seldom or never allowed to overweight
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."--_London Literary
World_.
"Can not but prove welcome to fair-minded men.... To read it
is to have an object-lesson in the meaning of evolution....
There is no better book on the subject for the general
reader.... No one could go through the book without being
both refreshed and newly instructed by its masterly survey
of the growth of the most powerful idea of modern
times."--_The Scotsman_.
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, NEW YORK.
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EVOLUTION OF MAN AND CHRISTIANITY.
New edition. By the Rev. HOWARD MACQUEARY.
With a new Preface, in which the Author answers his Critics,
and with some important Additions. 12mo. Cloth, $1.75.
"This is a revised and enlarged edition of a book published
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edition, denies that he rejects the doctrine of the
incarnation, admits his doubts of the physical resurrection
of Christ, and his belief in evolution. The volume is to be
marked as one of the most profound expressions of the modern
movement toward broader theological positions."--_Brooklyn
Times_.
"He does not write with the animus of the destructive
school; he intends to be, and honestly believes he is, doing
a work of construction, or at least of reconstruction.... He
writes with manifest earnestness and conviction, and in a
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HISTORY OF THE CONFLICT BETWEEN RELIGION AND SCIENCE.
By Dr. JOHN WILLIAM DRAPER.
12mo. Cloth, $1.75.
"The key-note to this volume is found in the antagonism
between the progressive tendencies of the human mind and the
pretensions of ecclesiastical authority, as developed in the
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