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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: great deal of discussion, and excited much commendation as well as animadversion. The tendency, however, appears more and more decided on the part of naturalists to adopt this doctrine, and there are now few naturalists of eminence who have not given in their adhesion to the proposition that all organisms are the more or less modified derivatives from antecedent forms. One of the most notable works in this field published in 1871 was On the Genesis of Species, by Mr. Mivart. While Mr. Mivart opposes Darwinism proper, or Mr. Darwin's explanation of the textit{modus operandi of evolution by natural selection, or rather contends that the operation of natural selection is much more limited than Mr. Darwin believed, he accepts fully the doctrine of evolution per se. While acknowledging, however, that man's body has been developed from a simian form, he believes that his intellectual and spiritual pre-eminence are due to direct creative intervention. The tendency of the German naturalists, on the other hand, is toward a more full acceptance of the views of Mr. Darwin, some undertaking to carry them to conclusions beyond what was contemplated by the author. Among the points of special interest may also be mentioned the discovery, by Dr. Greef, of a gigantic fresh-water Rhizo- pod of very low organization, allied in some respects to textit{Ba- thybius, and named textit{Pelobius by its discoverer. An announcement by Mr. Crace Calve'rt that the temperature of boiling water does not kill many forms of microscopic organization, and that it sometimes requires a heat of over 400 to accomplish this, has a very important bearing upon the question of spontaneous generation and sanitary precaution. Other communications worthy of mention are those of Dr. Gilnther on textit{Ceratodus, the ...
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