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CHAPTER I.
CHAPTER I.
CHARLES DARWIN'S CONFESSIONS
REGARDING HIS THEORY
I n 1859, Charles Darwin first published
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The Origin of Species by Means of Natural
Selection Or The Preservation of Favoured
Races in the Struggle for Life. In this book, which
he described as a "long argument," he sought, in
his opinion, to explain the origin of life in terms
of evolution.
But Darwin had no means of discussing sci-
entific evidence in his book, because The Origin
of Species was the work of a time when the biro
had not yet been invented, when the cell was un-
known and when all research was carried out under primitive micro-
scopes. As a matter of fact, for that reason throughout his book, he dealt
with the subject matter very amateurishly, not based on any experiment,
relying upon conjecture and hypothesis.
Later, Darwin set out his ideas regarding human evolution at the
same scientific level in his book The Descent of Man. Yet in both books, he
admitted the weaknesses and inconsistencies in his theory and frequent-
ly reiterated his doubts concerning the truth of these hypotheses in ques-
tion.
The British physicist H.S. Lipson makes this comment about these
fears of Darwin's:
