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Fiske John. A Century of Science, and Other Essays
A Century of Science, and Other Essays
Table of Contents
A CENTURY OF SCIENCE
I
II
III
EDWARD LIVINGSTON YOUMANS[13]
IV
THE PART PLAYED BY INFANCY IN THE EVOLUTION OF MAN[16]
V
THE ORIGINS OF LIBERAL THOUGHT IN AMERICA[17]
VI
SIR HARRY VANE[22]
VII
THE ARBITRATION TREATY
VIII
FRANCIS PARKMAN[25]
IX
EDWARD AUGUSTUS FREEMAN
X
CAMBRIDGE AS VILLAGE AND CITY[27]
XI
A HARVEST OF IRISH FOLK-LORE
XII
GUESSING AT HALF AND MULTIPLYING BY TWO
XIII
FORTY YEARS OF BACON-SHAKESPEARE FOLLY[36]
XIV
SOME CRANKS AND THEIR CROTCHETS
NOTE
AN ACCOUNT OF THE ADONI-SHOMO COMMUNITY
INDEX
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THE DOCTRINE OF EVOLUTION: ITS SCOPE AND PURPORT[5]
It was not strange that among the younger men whose opinions were moulded between 1830 and 1840 there should have been one of organizing genius, with a mind inexhaustibly fertile in suggestions, who should undertake to elaborate a general doctrine of evolution, to embrace in one grand coherent system of generalizations all the minor generalizations which workers in different departments of science were establishing. It is this prodigious work of construction that we owe to Herbert Spencer. He is the originator and author of what we know to-day as the doctrine of evolution, the doctrine which undertakes to formulate and put into scientific shape the conception of evolution toward which scientific investigation had so long been tending. In the mind of the general public there seems to be dire confusion with regard to Mr. Spencer and his relations to evolution and to Darwinism. Sometimes, I believe, he is even supposed to be chiefly a follower and expounder of Mr. Darwin! No doubt this is because so many people mix up Darwinism with the doctrine of evolution, and have but the vaguest and haziest notions as to what it is all about. As I explained above, Mr. Darwin's great work was the discovery of natural selection, and the demonstration of its agency in effecting specific changes in plants and animals; and in that work he was completely original. But plants and animals are only a part of the universe, though an important part, and with regard to universal evolution or any universal formula for evolution Darwinism had nothing to say. Such problems were beyond its scope.
