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When the history of the Nineteenth Century--'the Wonderful Century,' as it has, not inaptly, been called--comes to be written, a foremost place must be assigned to that great movement by which evolution has become the dominant factor in scientific progress, while its influence has been felt in every sphere of human speculation and effort. At the beginning of the Century, the few who ventured to entertain evolutionary ideas were regarded by their scientific contemporaries, as wild visionaries or harmless 'cranks'--by the world at large, as ignorant 'quacks' or 'designing atheists.' At the end of the Century, evolution had not only become the guiding principle of naturalists,. | The Coming of Evolution by John W. John 1 The Coming of Evolution by John W. John The Project Gutenberg eBook The Coming of Evolution by John W. John Wesley Judd This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title The Coming of Evolution The Story of a Great Revolution in Science Author John W. John Wesley Judd Release Date February 18 2010 eBook 31316 Language English The Coming of Evolution by John W. John 2 Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE COMING OF EVOLUTION E-text prepared by Brownfox and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team http www.pgdp.net Note Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 31316-h.htm or 31316-h.zip http www.gutenberg.org files 31316 31316-h 31316-h.htm or http www.gutenberg.org files 31316 31316-h.zip The Cambridge Manuals of Science and Literature THE COMING OF EVOLUTION Cambridge University Press London Fetter Lane E.C. C. F. Clay Manager Illustration Edinburgh 100 Princes Street London H. K. Lewis 136 Gower Street W.C. Berlin A. Asher and Co. Leipzig F. A. Brockhaus New York G. P. Putnam s Sons Bombay and Calcutta Macmillan and Co. Ltd. All rights reserved Illustration Charles Darwin THE COMING OF EVOLUTION The Story of a Great Revolution in Science by JOHN W. JUDD C.B. LL.D. F.R.S. Formerly Professor of Geology and Dean of the Royal College of Science Cambridge at the University Press 1910 Cambridge Printed by John Clay M.A. At the University Press With the exception of the coat of arms at the foot the design on the title page is a reproduction of one used by the earliest known Cambridge printer John Siberch 1521 CONTENTS CHAP. PAGE I. Introductory 1 II. Origin of the Idea of Evolution 5 The Coming of Evolution by John