The Works of the Duke of Argyll: Containing the Reign of Law; the Unity of Nature; Primeval Man 1884 - Softcover

Argyll, George Douglas Campbell

9780548599112: The Works of the Duke of Argyll: Containing the Reign of Law; the Unity of Nature; Primeval Man 1884

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ISBN 10: 0548599114 ISBN 13: 9780548599112

Verlag: Kessinger Pub Co, 2007

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Fifth Edition of this work, I have to ac knowledge the favor far greater than I expected with which it has been received. The argument which it maintains is at variance with the philosophy of some of the most active and popular thinkers of the time ;and on a few important points it deviates from the view commonly adopted by men with whom I am more generally agreed. Some adverse comment was there fore not only to be expected but desired. Most sincerely do I thank those who, in numerous Journals and Reviews, have undertaken this duty, for the uniformly courteous and even kindly spirit in which their criticisms have been expressed. In this Edition no alteration has been made involving any change of principle or opinion. Here and there words have been added or removed according as individual passages appear to have been misunderstood. Throughout some of the chapters substantial additions have been made in reply, direct or indirect, to my principal opponents, whilst discussions, more detailed than were suitable for the text, have been committed to Notes at the end of the volume. These additions and Notes have reference chiefly to the following articles which appeared in review of the Reign of Law :i st. An A rticle, by Mr. Alfred R. Wallace, in the Quarterly Journal of Science, for October, 1867. This article is in defence and illustration of Mr. Darwin s Theory on the Origin of Spe cies. The eminence of Mr. Wallace as a Naturalist, the ex tent of his researches in some of the most remarkable Faunas of the world, and the fact that, before the publication of Mr.
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