ABSTRACT
AMONG the various criticisms that have appeared on Mr. Darwin’s celebrated “Origin of Species,” there is, perhaps, none that will appeal to so large a number of well educated and intelligent persons, as that contained in the Duke of Argyll’s “Reign of Law.” The noble author represents the feelings and expresses the ideas of that large class, who take a keen interest in the progress of Science in general, and especially that of Natural History, but have never themselves studied nature in detail, or acquired that personal knowledge of the structure of closely allied forms,—the wonderful gradations from species to species and from group to group, and the infinite variety of the phenomena of “variation” in organic beings,—which are absolutely necessary for a full appreciation of the facts and reasonings contained in Mr. Darwin’s great work.
