Excerpt from The University of Chicago Magazine, Vol. 1: Published by the University of Chicago Alumni Association; March, 1909 Though many forerunners of this theory may be found in former centuries, its establishment upon a scientific basis belongs to the nineteenth century. How general the feeling is that evolution is the greatest scientific principle of modern times, and how univer sally its establishment is identified with a single man and a Single book, is shown by a remarkable symposium which appeared in one of our magazines a few years ago (outlook, December I, Ten men, selected for their eminence in literature and education, were asked to give their opinions as to the most in uential books of the nineteenth century. N 0 one of these men was by training or profession a biologist; with the exception of one psychologist, no one of them was especially identified with any natural science, and yet the only book of the century upon which all ten agreed was Darwin's Origin of Species. 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."