“The book is in all respects a worthy member of the ‘Columbia university biological series,’ of which it is the eighth volume. I could not give it higher praise.” E. T. Brewster.
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“The lectures are readable and instructive, and they are especially commended to the attention of plant physiologists, who are too apt to pass over literature not strictly pertaining to plants.”
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“The present volume, containing a survey of recent work in biology, may be commended, not to the specialist, for he knows of it already, but to the sociologist or the theologian—to any scholar, in fact, who is interested in the fundamental questions of life, and not afraid of meeting many words that he does not know and cannot find in the dictionary.”
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“Think what we may of such questions of logic, it is undeniable that the book is full of the most instructive and extraordinarily interesting matter, in large part new to all but the most fully informed, which is presented with great perspicuity, and put in as simple a form as possible.”
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“We may regard the work as a useful counterblast to those who term themselves neovitalists.”