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Essays on Darwinism

Chapter 20: Transcriber’s Notes
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A series of essays and letters argues for Darwinian natural selection, outlining its evidence, clarifying misconceptions, and urging careful scientific and theological consideration. The author examines objections such as the Noachian flood and contested chronologies, explores the relation of instinct and reason and continuity between human and animal nature, and discusses geological incompleteness and hypotheses like spontaneous generation. Short replies to correspondents show engagement with specific criticisms, while technical notes treat topics from fossil oysters and the first vertebrates to mathematical tests of natural selection. The overall aim is to present complex scientific arguments clearly for educated non-specialists.

Transcriber’s Notes

The cover of this eBook was made by the Transcriber, by combining the original Title Page and the blank green cover provided with the printed book. The result remains in the Public Domain.

Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed.

Simple typographical errors were corrected; occasional unbalanced quotation marks remedied.

Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained.

Footnotes, originally at the bottoms of pages, have been collected and repositioned after the last chapter of the book, just before the Index.

Index not checked for proper alphabetization or correct page references.

Page 3: “One” was capitalized in “qualified, One, without doubt”.