These essays, ten in number, treat of evolution and the criticisms which followed the publication of 'The Origin of Species', and endeavor to sum up Mr. Darwin's work and indicate its enduring influence on the course of scientific thought.
William Makepeace Thackeray, Golden Deer Classics, John Henry Newman, Matthew Arnold, John Ruskin, Walter Bagehot, Thomas Henry Huxley, Edward Augustus Freeman, Robert Louis Stevenson, William Ellery Channing, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry David Thoreau & James Russell Lowell