Three lectures which reiterate Professor Haeckel’s views of human life and destiny as affected by the doctrine of evolution. They are as follows: The controversy about creation, The struggle over our genealogical tree and The controversy over the soul.
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Hagar, Frank Nichols. American family: a sociological problem. $1.50 Univ. pub. soc.
“The author brings to his task the special training of a lawyer and considerable reading in the history of institutions. He discusses sex, theories of primitive and historical forms of domestic life, the decadence of the Yankees, occupations of women, matrimonial law, divorce, free love, education, industrial influences, democracy.... The volume illustrates the fact that men with legal training can render a valuable service to sociology by calling attention to the obstacles which the law itself presents when it is no longer fitted to contemporary conditions.”—Am. J. Soc.
“It is a serious work with a conservative purpose. Perhaps the most useful and instructive parts are the discussions of the decadence in the Yankee stock, the danger of foreign inundation, and the law of property affecting husband and wife.” C. R. Henderson.
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“Dispatching many of the grave questions connected with the family in sweeping generalizations, the author is too generally loose, vague, and incoherent. His wide discursiveness has resulted in a work lacking in due proportion and unity.”
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“It is a decidedly interesting and by no means contemptible argument.”