These few examples suffice. They enable us to estimate the extent of the field of influence of Darwinism. It affects sociology not only through the agency of its advocates but through that of its opponents. The questions to which it has given rise have proved no less fruitful than the solutions it has suggested. In short, few doctrines, in the history of social philosophy, will have produced on their passage a finer crop of ideas.
FOOTNOTES:
[246] P. Flourens, Examen du Livre de M. Darwin sur l'Origine des Espèces, p. 53, Paris, 1864. See also Huxley, "Criticisms on the Origin of Species," Collected Essays, Vol. II, p. 102, London, 1902.
[247] Inquiries into Human Faculty, pp. 1, 2, 3 sq., London, 1883.
[248] Darwinism and Politics, pp. 9, 22, London, 1889.
[249] Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, II. p. 385.
[250] V. de Lapouge, Les Sélections sociales, p. 259, Paris, 1896.
[251] Die natärliche Auslese beim Menschen, Jena, 1893; Du Gesellschaftsordnung und ihre natürlichen Grundlagen. Entwurf einer Sozialanthropologie, Jena, 1896.
[252] Etudes sur la Sélection dans ses rapports avec l'hérédité chez l'homme, Paris, p. 481, 1881.
[253] Die drei Bevölkerungsstufen, Munich, 1889.