Then as to the natural theological questions which (owing to circumstances needless now to bo recalled or explained) are here throughout brought into what most naturalists, and some other readers, may deem undue prominence, there are many who may be interested to know how these increasingly prevalent views and their tendencies are regarded by one who is scientifically, and in his own fashion, a Darwinian, philosophically a convinced theist, and religiously an acceptor of the "creed commonly called the Nicene," as the exponent of the Christian faith. "Truth emerges sooner from error than from confusion," says Bacon; and clearer views than commonly prevail upon the points at issue regarding "religion and science" are still sufficiently needed to justify these endeavors. BOTANIC GARDEN, CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June, 1876. CONTENTS. This Table of Contents, and the coplous Index to the volume, we ARTICLE I. THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION. PAGS ARTICLE II. DESIGN versus NECESSITY-A DISCUSSION. How Design in Nature can be shown.-Design not inconsistent NATURAL SELECTION NOT INCONSISTENT WITH NATURAL theology, PART I.-Premonitions of Darwinism.-A Proper Subject for PART II.-Limitations of Theory conceded by Darwin.—What Dar- PART III.-Theoriés contrasted. —Early Arguments against Darwin- Minor Objections.—Conclusion 87 SPECIES AS TO VARIATION, Geographical DISTRIBUTION, AND SUCCESSION. Alphonse De Candolle's Study of the Oak Genus,—Variability of the Species.-Antiquity.-A Common Origin probable.-Dr. Falconer on the Common Origin of Elephants,➡Variation and Natural Selection distinguished.—Saporta on the Gradation be- tween the Vegetable Forms of the Cretaceous and the Tertiary, -Hypothesis of Derivation more likely to be favored by Bot- anists than by Zoülogists.-Views of Agassiz respecting the Origin, Dispersion, Variation, Characteristics, and Successivo Creation of Species contrasted with those of De Candolle and others.-Definition of Species,-Whether its Essence is in the Likeness or in the Genealogical Connection of the Individuals ARTICLE Y. BEQUOIA AND ITS HISTORY: THE RELATIONS OF NORTH AMERICAN TO NORTH- KANTERN ASIAN and to TERTIARY VEGETATION. Age and Size of Sequoia.—Isolation.—Decadence.-Related Go General Tendency to Acceptance of the Derivative Hypothesis noted.-Lyell, Owen, Alphonse De Candolle, Bentham, Flower, Allman.—Dr. Dawson's “Story of the Earth and Man ” exam- PAGE Writings of Henslow, Hodges, and Le Conte examined.—Evolu- tion and Design compatible.—The Admission of a System of Nature, with Fixed Laws, concedes in Principle all that the Doctrine of Evolution requires.-Hypotheses, Probabilities, and Surmises, not to be decried by Theologians, who use thein, perhaps, more freely and loosely than Naturalists.-Theolo glans risk too much in the Defense of Untenable Outposts 252 ARTICLE VIIL Dr. Hodge's Book with this Title criticised.-He declares that Dar founded, however, upon Orthodox Conceptions, and opposed, not to Theism, but only to Intervention in Nature, while the Key-note of Dr. Hodge's System is Interference.-Views and Writings of St. Clair, Winchell, and Kingsley adverted to 206 CHARLES DARWIN: SKETCH ACCOMPANYING A PORTRAIT IN NATURE." Darwin's Characteristics and Work as a Naturalist compared with those of Robert Brown.-Ilis Illustration of the Principlo that Nature abhors Close Fertilization."-Ilis Impression upon ARTICLE X. INSECTIVOROUS PLANTS. Classification marks Distinctions where Nature exhibits Grada- INSECTIVOROUS AND CLIMBING PLANTS. Review of Darwin's Two Works upon these Subjects,-No Absoluto Marks for distinguishing between Vegetables and Animals,-- New Observations upon the Sundews or Droseras.-Their Sen. sitiveness, Movements, Discernment of the Presence and Ap. propriation of Animal Matter.-Dionæa, and other Plants of the same Order.-Utricularia and Pinguicula.—Sarracenia and Nepenthes.-Climbing Plants; the Climbing effected through Sensitiveness or Response to External Impression and Auto- matic Movement.-Capacities Inherent in Plants generally, and apparently of no Service to them, developed and utilized. |