The University of Chicago Magazine, Vol. 1: Published by the University of Chicago Alumni Association; March, 1909 (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Hansen, Harry Arthur

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0656759909 ISBN 13: 9780656759903

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

Excerpt from The University of Chicago Magazine, Vol. 1: Published by the University of Chicago Alumni Association; March, 1909

Though many forerunners Of this theory may be found in former centuries, its establishment upon a scientific basis belongs to the nineteenth century. How general the feeling is that evolution is the greatest scientific principle of modern times, and how univer sally its establishment is identified with a single man and a single book, is shown by a remarkable symposium which appeared in one of our magazines a few years ago (outlook, December I, Ten men, selected for their eminence in literature and education, were asked to give their opinions as to the most influential books of the nineteenth century. N 0 one Of these men was by training or profession a biologist; with the exception of one psychologist, no one of them was especially identified with any natural science, and yet the only book of the century upon which all ten agreed was Darwin's Origin of Species.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0656759909
• ISBN 13: 9780656759903
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• Anzahl der Seiten: 100
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