Author : John Burdon Sanderson Haldane
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781391607023
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (7 download)
Book Synopsis The Causes of Evolution (Classic Reprint) by : John Burdon Sanderson Haldane
Download or read book The Causes of Evolution (Classic Reprint) written by John Burdon Sanderson Haldane and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-10-07 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Causes of Evolution So close a correlation is rather rare in the history of human thought. For example, men had been aware for ages of the existence of a past history of the human race before Daniel (or the author of the Book of Daniel) made the first attempt to View that history as a whole, and give a summary account of it. If Daniel had been the first person to persuade thinking men that the past had differed appreciably from the present, it is clear that his particular account of the historical process would have had a greater intellectual influence than it has actually had} We must therefore carefully distinguish between two quite different doctrines which Darwin popularised, the doctrine of evolution, and that of natural selection. It is quite possible to hold the first and not the second. Similarly with regard to the doctrines of Darwin's great contemporary Marx, it is possible to adopt socialism but not historical materialism. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.