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Organic Evolution

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FOR some time I have much desired to direct the attention of your readers all over the world to the two very remarkable articles on Organic Evolution, by Mr. Herbert Spencer, which appeared in the April and May numbers of the Nineteenth Century. I hope they will be separately published. They mark in my opinion a new departure in the Philosophy which has been built up by a certain school of writers on the Darwinian Theory. Let me explain what I mean.

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ARGYLL Organic Evolution. Nature 34, 335–336 (1886). https://doi.org/10.1038/034335c0

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