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Title: What is Darwinism?

Author: Charles Hodge

Release Date: September 6, 2006 [EBook #19192]

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WHAT IS DARWINISM?

BY
CHARLES HODGE,
PRINCETON, N. J.

NEW YORK:
SCRIBNER, ARMSTRONG, AND COMPANY.
1874.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1874, by
SCRIBNER, ARMSTRONG, & COMPANY,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

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CONTENTS.

PAGE
IMPORTANCE OF THE QUESTION 1

DIFFERENT THEORIES AS TO THE ORIGIN OF THE UNIVERSE,
AND SPECIALLY OF VEGETABLE AND ANIMAL ORGANISMS.
1. The Scriptural Theory 3
2. The Pantheistic Theory 7
3. The Epicurean Theory 10
4. The Doctrine of Herbert Spencer 11
5. Hylozoic Theory 21
6. Unscriptural Forms of Theism 22

DARWIN'S THEORY 26

NATURAL SELECTION 31

SENSE IN WHICH DARWIN USES THE WORD NATURAL 40

THE THREE ELEMENTS OR DARWINISM 48

THE EXCLUSION OF DESIGN IN NATURE THE FORMATIVE IDEA
OF DARWIN'S THEORY 49

PROOF OF DARWIN'S DENIAL OF TELEOLOGY, FROM HIS OWN
WRITINGS 53

PROOF FROM THE EXPOSITIONS OF HIS THEORY BY ITS AVOWED
ADVOCATES.
Mr. Russell Wallace 64
Professor Huxley