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MR. DARWIN, in his recent work, very truly observes that “false facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often long endure; but that false theories are comparatively innocuous.” Mr. Stebbing's work can then do little harm, as it supplies us with no new “facts” whatever, whether true or false. The author is an advocate who serves Mr. Darwin with more zeal than discretion, and who seems but little, if at all, able to appreciate the arguments and objections adduced on the other side. Some who are already convinced of the truth of Darwinism will read with pleasure a series of eloquent and interesting essays in its favour; but, though calculated to confirm a disciple, they are singularly ill-calculated to convert an opponent. Before Mr. Stebbing again writes upon this subject we strongly recommend him to peruse carefully Mr. Grote's “Examination of the Utilitarian Philosophy.”
Essays on Darwinism.
By J. R. R. Stebbing. (Longmans and Co., 1871.)
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Essays on Darwinism . Nature 3, 444 (1871). https://doi.org/10.1038/003444b0
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