Lectures and Essays
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1. Front matter2. EDITOR'S NOTE.3. NOTICE TO THE FIRST EDITION.4. THE PRESENT CONDITION OF ORGANIC NATURE.5. THE PAST CONDITION OF ORGANIC NATURE.6. THE METHOD BY WHICH THE CAUSES OF THE PRESENT AND PAST CONDITIONS OF ORGANIC NATURE ARE TO BE DISCOVERED.—THE ORIGINATION OF LIVING BEINGS.7. THE PERPETUATION OF LIVING BEINGS, HEREDITARY TRANSMISSION AND VARIATION.8. THE CONDITIONS OF EXISTENCE AS AFFECTING THE PERPETUATION OF LIVING BEINGS.9. A CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF THE POSITION OF MR. DARWIN'S WORK, "ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES," IN RELATION TO THE COMPLETE THEORY OF THE CAUSES OF THE PHENOMENA OF ORGANIC NATURE.10. THE DARWINIAN HYPOTHESIS.*11. DARWIN ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES.12. TIME AND LIFE.*13. MR. DARWIN'S "ORIGIN OF SPECIES".14. THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES.*15. CRITICISMS ON "THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES".*16. EVIDENCE AS TO MAN'S PLACE IN NATURE17. ON THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE MAN-LIKE APES.18. ON THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE MAN-LIKE APES. (continued 2)19. ON THE RELATIONS OF MAN TO THE LOWER ANIMALS.20. ON THE RELATIONS OF MAN TO THE LOWER ANIMALS. (continued 2)21. A SUCCINCT HISTORY OF THE CONTROVERSY RESPECTING THE CEREBRAL STRUCTURE OF MAN AND THE APES.22. ON SOME FOSSIL REMAINS OF MAN.23. ON THE ADVISABLENESS OF IMPROVING NATURAL KNOWLEDGE.*24. ON THE STUDY OF ZOOLOGY.*25. GEOLOGICAL CONTEMPORANEITY AND PERSISTENT TYPES OF LIFE.*26. CORAL AND CORAL REEFS.*27. YEAST.28. WILLIAM HARVEY AND THE DISCOVERY OF THE CIRCULATION OF THE BLOOD.