HARVARD COPYRIGHT, 1896, BY CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS TROW DIRECTORY NEW YORK TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE The question. The two theories of man's origin.—The argument purely historical.-Means of tracing man's ancestry and history.-Classification. Amoeba: Its anatomy and physiology.-Development of the cell.- Hydra: The development of digestive and reproductive organs, and of Worms and the development of organs.-Mollusks: The external protec- tive skeleton leads to degeneration or stagnation.-Annelids and arthro- pods: The external locomotive skeleton leads to temporary rapid advance, but fails of the goal.-Its disadvantages.-Vertebrates: The internal loco- motive skeleton leads to backbone and brain.-Reasons for their dominance The advance of vertebrates from fish through amphibia and reptiles to Mode of investigation.- Intellect.- Sense-perceptions.-Association.— The reversal of the sequence of functions leads to extermination, degen- given form, may be considered as one grand resultant.-Environment is thus a power making at first for digestion and reproduction, then for mus- cular strength and activity, then for shrewdness, finally for unselfishness and righteousness.-An ultimate "power, not ourselves, making for right- eousness," a personality.—Our knowledge of this personality may be valid, even though very incomplete.-Religion.-Conformity to the spiritual in or behind environment is likeness to God.-The conservative tendency in Human environment.-The development of the family as the school of Composed of atoms and molecules, hence subject to chemical and physi- cal laws. As a living being.-As an animal.-As a vertebrate.-As a mammal.—As a social being.—As a personal and moral being.—The con- flict between the higher and the lower in man.-As a religious being.—As hero. He has not yet attained.-Future man.-He will utilize all his powers, duly subordinating the lower to the higher.-The triumph of the Subject of the Bible.-Man: Body, intellect, heart.-God: Law, sin, PRESENT ASPECTS OF THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION 278 The struggle for existence.-Natural selection.-Correlation of organs.- |