Abstract
DR. MIVART has collected in two portly volumes a number of essays and critical reviews which he has from time to time contributed to current monthly or quarterly literature. The ground covered is tolerably extensive; from “Jacobinism” and “The French Revolution” to “Weismann's Theories” and of “Eimer on Growth and Inheritance;” from “Austrian Monasteries” and “The Greyfriars” to “Herbert Spencer” and “Hermann Lotze.” We have read the whole, or almost the whole, with interest, and not without admiration of the author's wide knowledge, his earnest purpose, and his power of clear exposition. Here, however, we are chiefly concerned with those essays which deal with scientific problems. They are well worthy of reperusal in their present collected form, and that chiefly because Dr. Mivart holds definite and in some respects peculiar views on evolution, because he has the advantage of some training in philosophy, because he is a learned and acute critic, and because he has pre-eminently the courage of his convictions.
Essays and Criticism.
By St. George Mivart (London: Osgood, M'Ilvaine, and Co., 1892.)
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M., C. Essays and Criticism. Nature 46, 265–266 (1892). https://doi.org/10.1038/046265a0
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