Joseph Dalton Hooker (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Joseph Dalton Hooker Sir Joseph Hooker was by general consent held to be the leading botanist of his age. That age witnessed the greatest revolution of all time in biological thought. It was the period when evolution was born, and Hooker assisted at the birth. It was then that the belief in fixity of species was shaken, and finally overthrown: in its place came a belief in the mutability of species, and the genesis of new forms. The change touched religious and philosophical thought profoundly, and has led to a wholly altered outlook on life. By right therefore Sir Joseph Hooker takes his place among the "Pioneers of Progress". He should stand in history at the right hand of Darwin, as he actually did in fact throughout the period while the Origin of Species was in preparation. But before the story of his life is told, a brief historical sketch may help the reader to understand the part which he played in the great drama. The ancient science of botany concerned itself in the first instance with the recognition and description of different kinds of plants. Naturally precedence was given to those which were of use to man. Consequently from classical times up to the middle of the seventeenth century books on the subject were largely of the nature of herbals, or catalogues of the plants described, with their uses. They were often elaborately illustrated, as is seen in the best examples of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. 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.
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