Joseph LeConte, professor at the University of California, defines evolution as a universal law, weighs his old teacher Agassiz’s opposition to it, and lays out the evidence from anatomy, embryology, the fossil record and the homologies of skeletons. He then argues at length that evolution, rightly understood, deepens rather than destroys religious belief.
An influential nineteenth-century attempt to reconcile Darwin with Christianity, for historians of science and religion. Download the free EPUB.