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Excerpt from The Mammalia in Their Relation to Primeval Times In the Preface to the Third Edition of my 'Doctrine of Descent and Darwinism' which appeared in 1883, 1 quoted the opinion of a famous lawyer as to the worthlessness of science, not with the intention of refuting it, but gave it as an example of the incredible naïveté with which eminent representatives of certain pronounced religious tendencies confront the work and results of natural science. Not long afterwards I was asked by a well-known man whether my lectures on zoology, at the university, treated of Darwinism as well. What my answer was is known to all those who have taken any interest in the 'theory of descent.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.