Tales of Men and Ghosts/The Debt
THÔNG TIN TRUYỆN

Tales of Men and Ghosts/The Debt

Tác giảEdith Wharton
Trạng tháiHoàn thành
Cập nhật10/10/2026 23:05
Lượt đọc2

Giới thiệu truyện

THE DEBTYOU remember—it's not so long ago—the talk there was about Dredge's “Arrival of the Fittest”? The talk has subsided, but the book of course remains: stands up, in fact, as the tallest thing of its kind since—well, I'd almost said since “The Origin of Species.”
I'm not wrong, at any rate, in calling it the most important contribution yet made to the development of the Darwinian theory, or rather to the solution of the awkward problem about which that theory has had to make such a circuit. Dredge's hypothesis will be contested, may one day be disproved; but at least it has swept out of the way all previous conjectures, including of course Lanfear's magnificent attempt; and for our generation of scientific investigators it will serve as the first safe bridge across a murderous black whirlpool.
It's all very interesting—there are few things more stirring to the imagination than that sudden projection of the new hypothesis, light as a cobweb and strong as steel, across the intellectual abyss; but, for an idle observer of human motives, the other, the personal, side of Dredge's case is even more interesting and arresting.
Personal side? You didn't know there was one? Pictured him

Latest English chapters on MangaDex

Metadata provided by MangaDex. Read chapters at the original source.

Đọc bản gốc tại Wikisource tiếng Anh

Chương truyện (1)