Abstract
THE author of this lucid and interesting work is Director of the Geological Institute of the University of Louvain. He was deputed to convey the address from that University to the gathering that celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of “The Origin of Species “at Cambridge in 1919. The present volume leads us to look forward to one promised on “The Descent of Man,” though the lines of the argument can be sufficiently traced from these two “conferences “on the general question of evolution. “Darwinism” is here used as synonymous with the theory that species of organisms have been continuously evolved. The author combats (pp. 26 and 31) the view of Father Brucker, S.J., who has held that a certain number of species were connected with the Creation recorded in the Bible, while others, linked by chains of descent, arose later.
Darwinism and Catholic Thought.
By Canon Dorlodot. Translated by the Rev. Ernest Messenger. Vol. 1: The Origin of Species. Pp. viii+184. (London: Burns, Oates and Washbourne, Ltd., 1922.) 6s.
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Darwinism and Catholic Thought. Nature 113, 8–9 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/113008c0
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