ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses criticism on Darwin’s theory of “Natural Selection,” so strenuously advocated in his two great works “The Origin of Species” and “The Descent of Man,” by the re-awakened interest that the very numerous and very laudatory which appeared on Darwin, as a man, a naturalist, and a discoverer, on the occasion of the centenary of his birth, created and excited in the public mind. One and all, with hardly an exception, eulogized Darwin to the skies. He was at once a great man, a great naturalist, and a great discoverer. His “Law of Natural Selection,” so they asserted, in its main outlines held the field, though certain minor modifications might be necessary to bring it more thoroughly into line with discoveries and subsequent and more exhaustive speculations on the subject. Read the criticisms afterwards, and the more of them the better, especially if they proceed from all points of the intellectual compass.
