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THE subject of this work is “the significance of the evolutionary world view for man himself,” and the writer's endeavour is “to re-read the facts of scientific research in the spheres of biology, geology, anthropology, and psychology.” The task seems an ambitious one, but it has to be done over and over, again unless we are to be submerged by a continually increasing flood of uncorrelated facts. Men of science are often impatient of such attempts, partly because they themselves are interested in particular problems of research, I partly because the limitations of their own outlook are apt to be emphasised in these attempts at a synoptic view. Nevertheless, we can imagine a student of any of the natural sciences reading this book with both interest and enthusiasm. It displays not only a remarkable acquaintance with recent research and theory, but also vigorous powers of comprehension, and genuine fertility of speculative resource. The book, in a word, is original and will repay careful study.
Evolution and the Spirit of Man: being an Indication of some Paths leading to the Reconquest of the ‘Eternal Values’ through the Present Knowledge of Nature.
By Dr. J. Parton Milum. Pp. 228. (London: The Epworth Press, 1928.) 7s. 6d. net.
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H., J. Evolution and the Spirit of Man: being an Indication of some Paths leading to the Reconquest of the ‘Eternal Values’ through the Present Knowledge of Nature . Nature 122, 343 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/122343a0
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