On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection, or, the Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life. When on board H.M.S. ‘Beagle,’ as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the inhabitants of South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past […]

The same volume I published an essay on Scientific Humanism (a close approximation to P£re Teilhard’s Neo-Humanism) f in which I independently anticipated the tide of Pere Teilhard’s great book by describing humanity as a phenomenon, to be studied and analysed by scientific methods. Soon after the first World War, in Essays of a Biologist, […]

Two aspects of animal life impressed me most during the journeys which I made in my youth in Eastern Siberia and Northern Manchuria. One of them was the extreme severity of the struggle for existence which most species of animals have to carry on against an inclement Nature; the enormous destruction of life which periodically […]