Age and Size of Sequoia.--Isolation.--Decadence.--Related Genera.-- Former
Distribution.--Similarity between the Flora of Japan and that of the United
States, especially on the Atlantic Side.--Former Glaciation as explaining
the Present Dispersion of Species.--This confirmed by the Arctic Fossil
Flora of the Tertiary Period.--Tertiary Flora derived from the Preceding
Cretaceous.--Order and Adaptation in Organic Nature likened to a
Flow.--Order implies an Ordainer
ARTICLE VI
THE ATTITUDE OF WORKING
NATURALISTS TOWARD DARWINISM
General Tendency to Acceptance of the Derivative Hypothesis noted.--Lyell,
Owen, Alphonse De Candolle, Bentham, Flower, Ailman.-- Dr. Dawson's "Story
of the Earth and Man" examined.--Difference between Scientific Men and
General Speculators or Amateurs in the
Use of Hypotheses
ARTICLE VII
EVOLUTION AND THEOLOGY
Writings of Henslow, Hodges, and Le Conte examined.--Evolution 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
them, perhaps, more freely and loosely than Naturalists.--Theologians risk
too much in the Defense of Untenable Outposts
ARTICLE VIII
"WHAT IS DARWINISM?"
Dr. Hodges Book with this Title criticised.--He declares that Darwinism is
Atheism, yet its Founder a Theist.--Darwinism founded, however, upon
Orthodox Conceptions, and opposed, not to Theism, but only to Intervention
in Nature, while the Key-note of Dr. Hedge's System is Interference.--Views
and Writings of St. Clair, Winchell, and Kingsley adverted to
ARTICLE IX
CHARLES DARWIN:
SKETCH ACCOMPANYING A PORTRAIT IN "NATURE"
Darwin's Characteristics and Work as a Naturalist compared with those of
Robert Brown.--His Illustration of the Principle that "Nature abhors Close
Fertilization. "--His Impression upon Natural History exceeded only by
Linnaeus.--His Service in restoring Teleology to Natural History
ARTICLE X
INSECTIVOROUS PLANTS
Classification marks Distinctions where Nature exhibits Gradations.--
Recovery of Forgotten Knowledge and History of what was known of Dionzea,
Drosera, and Sarracenia.
ARTICLE XI
INSECTIVOROUS AND CLIMBING PLANTS
Review of Darwin's Two Works upon these Subjects--No Absolute Marks for
distinguishing between Vegetables and Animals.--New observations upon the
Sundews or Droseras.--Their Sensitiveness, Movements, Discernment of the
Presence and Appropriation of Animal Matter.--Dionaea, 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 Automatic Movement.--Capacities
inherent in Plants generally, and apparently of no Service to them,
developed and utilized by those which climb.--Natural Selection not a
Complete Explanation
ARTICLE XII
DURATION AND ORIGINATION OF
RACE AND SPECIES
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