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MR. DRUMMOND is well known as a brilliant and enthusiastic writer, and his latest book will be welcomed by a wide circle of admirers. He approaches the study of nature and evolution with the sympathetic eye of a moral teacher who is possessed by a praiseworthy desire to find wholesome and ennobling lessons therein. In this he is successful. He has, however, a further purpose, that of setting biologists right in matters of biology. In this he is scarcely focus to the present hour.” The focus is adjusted in “The Ascent of Man.” We must, however, leave those of so successful. “Evolution,” he tells us in his preface, “was given to the modern world out of focus, was first seen by it out of focus, and has remained out ofour readers who can spare an hour or two for the perusal of the well-printed volume, to see how far Mr. Drummond aids them in acquiring a more definite and accurate conception of evolution. They will, we feel sure, be impressed with his eloquence and earnestness.
The Lowell Lectures on the Ascent of Man.
By Henry Drummond. (London: Hodderand Stoughton, 1894.)
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[Book Reviews]. Nature 50, 147 (1894). https://doi.org/10.1038/050147c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/050147c0