Produced by Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe, Keith Edkins and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was made using scans of public domain works from the University of Michigan Digital Libraries.) Transcriber's note: A few typographical errors have been corrected: they are listed at the end of the text. THE THEORIES OF DARWIN. HALL, STUTTGART, April 5, 1880. We hereby authorize the Rev. Dr. G. A. Zimmermann to translate into English the book entitled _Die Darwin'schen Theorien und ihre Stellung zur Philosophie, Religion und Moral von Rudolf Schmid_. We declare that we know of no other translation of the said book and that Dr. Zimmermann's translation will be the only one authorized by us for the United States as well as for the British Empire and its Dominions. (_The Author_) RUDOLF SCHMID. (_The Publisher_) PAUL MOSER. * * * * * THE THEORIES OF DARWIN AND THEIR RELATION TO PHILOSOPHY, RELIGION AND MORALITY. By RUDOLF SCHMID, President of the Theological Seminary at Schoenthal, Wuertemberg. TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN BY G. A. ZIMMERMANN, PH.D. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THE DUKE OF ARGYLL CHICAGO: JANSEN McCLURG. & COMPANY 1883. * * * * * COPYRIGHT BY JANSEN, MCCLURG & CO. A.D. 1882. R. R. DONNELLEY & SONS, PRINTERS. * * * * * {1} AUTHOR'S PREFACE * * * * * The movement which received its impulse as well as its name from Darwin, seems to have recently passed its distinctest phase; but the more prominent points of opposition, religious, ethical, and scientific, which have been revealed through it, remain as sharply contrasted as before. The author of this book desires, in the first place, to be of service to such readers as feel the need of setting themselves right upon these questions, which touch the highest interests of mankind, but who lack time and opportunity to investigate independently a realm in which so many and so heterogeneous sciences come into mutual contact. The illogical and confused manner in which some noisy leaders confound these sciences and their problems and consequences, renders it still more difficult to arrive at a satisfactory result; and thus perhaps many readers will look with interest upon an investigation designed to simplify the different problems and the different attempts at their solution, and to treat them not only in their relations to each other, but also separately. But with this primary object, the author combines another: to render a service to some among the many who perceive the harmony between their scientific conviction and their religious need threatened or shaken by the results of science, and who are unwilling to lose this harmony, or, having lost it, desire to regain it. Those voices are indeed becoming louder, and more generally and willingly