Evolution
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- Its nature, its evidence, and its relation to religious thought
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1. EVOLUTION ITS NATURE, ITS EVIDENCES, AND ITS RELATION TO RELIGIOUS THOUGHT2. PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.3. PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.4. CHAPTER I. ITS SCOPE AND DEFINITION.5. CHAPTER II. THE RELATION OF LOUIS AGASSIZ TO THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION.6. CHAPTER I. GENERAL EVIDENCES OF EVOLUTION AS A UNIVERSAL LAW.7. CHAPTER II. SPECIAL PROOFS OF EVOLUTION. Introductory.8. CHAPTER III. THE GRADES OF THE FACTORS OF EVOLUTION AND THE ORDER OF THEIR APPEARANCE.9. CHAPTER IV. SPECIAL PROOFS, TAKEN FROM THE GENERAL LAWS OF ANIMAL STRUCTURE, OR FROM COMPARISON IN THE TAXONOMIC SERIES. General Principles.10. CHAPTER V. PROOFS FROM HOMOLOGIES OF THE VERTEBRATE SKELETON.11. CHAPTER VI. HOMOLOGIES OF THE ARTICULATE SKELETON.12. CHAPTER VII. PROOFS FROM EMBRYOLOGY, OR COMPARISON IN THE ONTOGENIC SERIES.13. CHAPTER VIII. PROOFS FROM GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF ORGANISMS.14. CHAPTER IX. PROOFS FROM VARIATION OF ORGANIC FORMS, ARTIFICIAL AND NATURAL.15. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY.16. CHAPTER II. THE RELATION OF EVOLUTION TO MATERIALISM.17. CHAPTER III. THE RELATION OF GOD TO NATURE.18. CHAPTER IV. THE RELATION OF MAN TO NATURE.19. CHAPTER V. THE RELATION OF GOD TO MAN.20. CHAPTER VI. THE OBJECTION, THAT THE ABOVE VIEW IMPLIES PANTHEISM, ANSWERED.21. CHAPTER VII. SOME LOGICAL CONSEQUENCES OF THE DOCTRINE OF THE DIVINE IMMANENCY.22. CHAPTER VIII. THE RELATION OF EVOLUTION TO THE IDEA OF THE CHRIST.23. CHAPTER IX. THE RELATION OF EVOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM OF EVIL.24. INDEX