Evolution Old and New

Evolution Old and New

SamuelButler Butler, iconoclastic Victorian-era English author (1835-1902)


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Table of Contents

-01- About this book

-02- NOTE

-03- PREFACES

-04- STATEMENT OF THE QUESTION. CURRENT OPINION ADVERSE TO TELEOLOGY

-05- THE TELEOLOGY OF PALEY AND THE THEOLOGIANS

-06- IMPOTENCE OF PALEY'S CONCLUSION

-07- FAILURE OF THE FIRST EVOLUTIONISTS TO SEE THEIR POSITION AS TELEOLOGICAL

-08- THE TELEOLOGICAL EVOLUTION OF ORGANISM

-09- SCHEME OF THE REMAINDER OF THE WORK

-10- PRE BUFFONIAN EVOLUTION AND SOME GERMAN WRITERS

-11- BUFFON MEMOIR

-12- BUFFON'S METHOD THE IRONICAL CHARACTER OF HIS WORK

-13- SUPPOSED FLUCTUATIONS OF OPINION

-14- BUFFON FULLER QUOTATIONS

-15- SKETCH OF DR ERASMUS DARWIN'S LIFE

-16- PHILOSOPHY OF DR ERASMUS DARWIN

-17- FULLER QUOTATIONS FROM THE ZOONOMIA

-18- MEMOIR OF LAMARCK

-19- GENERAL MISCONCEPTION CONCERNING LAMARCK HIS PHILOSOPHICAL POSITION

-20- SUMMARY OF THE PHILOSOPHIE ZOOLOGIQUE

-21- MR PATRICK MATTHEW MM ÉTIENNE AND ISIDORE GEOFFROY ST HILAIRE AND MR HERBERT SPENCER

-22- MAIN POINTS OF AGREEMENT AND OF DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE OLD AND NEW THEORIES OF EVOLUTION

-23- NATURAL SELECTION CONSIDERED AS A MEANS OF MODIFICATION. THE CONFUSION WHICH THIS EXPRESSION OCCASIONS

-24- MR DARWIN'S DEFENCE OF THE EXPRESSION NATURAL SELECTION

-25- THE CASE OF THE MADEIRA BEETLES AS ILLUSTRATING THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE EVOLUTION OF LAMARCK AND OF MR CHARLES DARWIN CONCLUSION

-26- APPENDIX