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Excerpt from The Doctrine of Descent and Darwinism The important chapter which closes this work was included. In a public lecture which I delivered at the meeting Of Naturalists and Physicians held this year at Wiesbaden my purpose being, as I am willing to con fess, to ascertain, by experience, Whether on this signifi cant subject I had struck the right note to suit a circle Of hearers and readers not hampered by prejudice. 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.