Modern Physical Fatalism and the Doctrine of Evolution: Including an Examination of H. Spencer's First Principles

"Modern Physical Fatalism" is an able examination of the groundwork of H. Spencer's "Negative Philosophy" from a mathematical and physical standpoint. Though dealing with abstruse problems it is characterized throughout by unusual perspicuity of thought and logical acumen. Mr. Birks displays much skill in demonstrating the numerous contradictions and startling paradoxes which underlie the verbose definitions and imperfect reasoning of the "First Principles" of this philosophy, a philosophy ...