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F THE PRESENT AND PAST CONDITIONS OF ORGANIC NATURE ARE TO BE DISCOVERED.--THE ORIGINATION OF LIVING BEINGS. THE PERPETUATION OF LIVING BEINGS, HEREDITARY TRANSMISSION AND VARIATION. THE CONDITIONS OF EXISTENCE AS AFFECTING THE PERPETUATION OF LIVING BEINGS. A CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF THE POSITION OF MR. DARWIN'S WORK, "ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES," IN RELATION TO THE COMPLETE THEORY OF THE CAUSES OF THE PHENOMENA OF ORGANIC NATURE. ESSAYS ON DARWIN'S "ORIGIN OF SPECIES": THE DARWINIAN HYPOTHESIS. TIME AND LIFE. THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES. CRITICISMS ON "THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES". EVIDENCE AS TO MAN'S PLACE IN NATURE: ON THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE MAN-LIKE APES. ON THE RELATIONS OF MAN TO THE LOWER ANIMALS. ON SOME FOSSIL REMAINS OF MAN. ON THE ADVISABLENESS OF IMPROVING NATURAL KNOWLEDGE. ON THE STUDY OF ZOOLOGY. GEOLOGICAL CONTEMPORANEITY AND PERSISTENT TYPES OF LIFE. CORAL AND CORAL REEFS. YEAST. THE CIRCULATION OF THE BLOOD. ***** ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE CAUSES OF THE PHENOMENA OF ORGANIC NATURE. NOTICE TO THE FIRST EDITION. The Publisher of these interesting Lectures, having made an arrangement for their publication with Mr. J.A. Mays, the Reporter, begs to append the following note from Professor Huxley:-- "Mr. J. Aldous Mays, who is taking shorthand notes of my 'Lectures to Working Men,' has asked me to allow him, on his own account, to print those Notes for the use of my audience. I willingly accede to this request, on the understanding that a notice is prefixed to the effect that I have no leisure to revise the Lectures, or to make alterations in them, beyond the correction of any important error in a matter of fact." ***** ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE CAUSES OF THE PHENOMENA OF ORGANIC NATURE: THE PRESENT CONDITION OF ORGANIC NATURE. When it was my duty to consider what subject I would select for the six lectures* ([Footnote] *To Working Men, at the Museum of Practical Geology, 1863.) which I shall now have the pleasure of delivering to you, it occurred to me that I could not do better than endeavour to put before you in a true light, or in what I might perhaps with more modesty call, that which I conceive myself to be the true light, the position of a book which has been more praised and more abused, perhaps, than any book which has appeared for some years;--I mean Mr. Darwin's work on the "Origin of Species".
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