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THE judgment of foreign nations gives the best clue to that of posterity; and it is therefore with peculiar interest that the countrymen of Mr. Darwin have watched the reception of his works in France and Germany. In the latter country his theory of the origin of species has been more or less completely accepted by those best qualified to judge, including men like Gegenbaur and Haeckel; and it has produced a complete literature of arguments and facts “für Darwin,” without encountering any very serious opposition. In France, the truth of the theory is far less extensively admitted, and has been lately the subject of prolonged discussion in the Academy of Sciences. The debate on Mr. Darwin's claims has now been adjourned for three months, but so far as it was reported in our last number it furnishes much ground for reflection.
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Mr. Darwin and the French Institute. Nature 2, 309 (1870). https://doi.org/10.1038/002309a0
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