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Title: At the Deathbed of Darwinism
A Series of Papers

Author: Eberhard Dennert

Translator: Edwin V. O'Harra
John H. Peschges

Release Date: April 10, 2007 [EBook #21019]

Language: English

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_AT THE DEATHBED OF DARWINISM_

A SERIES OF PAPERS

By

E. DENNERT, Ph.D.

Authorized Translation

By E. V. O'HARRA and JOHN H. PESCHGES

1904
GERMAN LITERARY BOARD
Burlington, Iowa

Copyright 1904
By R. NEUMANN

_CONTENTS_

PREFACE 9

INTRODUCTION 27

CHAPTER I.--The Return to Wigand--The Botanist, Julius von
Sachs--The Vienna Zoologist, Dr. Schneider 35

CHAPTER II.--Professor Goethe on "The Present Status of
Darwinism"--Explains the Reluctance of certain men of
Science to Discard Darwinism 41

CHAPTER III.--Professor Korchinsky Rejects Darwinism--His
Theory of Heterogenesis--Professor Haberlandt of
Graz--Demonstration of a "Vital Force"--Its Nature--The
Sudden Origination of a New Organ--Importance of the
Experiment. 49

CHAPTER IV.--Testimony of a Palaeontologist, Professor
Steinmann--On Haeckel's Family Trees--The Principle of
Multiple Origin--Extinction of the Saurians--"Darwinism Not
the Alpha and Omega of the Doctrine of Descent"--Steinmann's
Conclusions 60

CHAPTER V.--Eimer's Theory of Organic Growth--Definite Lines
of Development--Rejects Darwin's Theory of Fluctuating
Variations--Opposes Weismann--Repudiates Darwinian
"Mimicry"--Discards the "Romantic" Hypothesis of Sexual
Selection--"Transmutation is a Physiological Process, a
Phyletic Growth" 69

CHAPTER VI.--Admission