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CHAPTER I.
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Nature and importance of the subject—Is there a relation of Creator and creature between God and man?—Rules of rational belief—Is natural theology a progressive science? 1
CHAPTER II.
The Platonic Kosmos compared with the Darwinian theory of evolution 44
CHAPTER III.
The Darwinian pedigree of man—The evolution of organisms out of other organisms, according to the theory of Darwin 87
CHAPTER IV.
The doctrine of evolution according to Herbert Spencer 131
CHAPTER V.
The doctrine of evolution according to Herbert Spencer further considered 167
CHAPTER VI.
The doctrine of evolution according to Herbert Spencer further considered 200
CHAPTER VII.
Mr. Spencer's agnosticism—His theory of the origin of religious beliefs—The mode in which mankind are to lose the consciousness of a personal God 257
CHAPTER VIII.
The existence, attributes, and methods of God deducible from the phenomena of Nature—Origin of the solar system 300
CHAPTER IX.
Does evolution account for the phenomena of society and of nature?—Necessity for a conception of a personal actor—Mr. Spencer's protoplasmic origin of all organic life—The Mosaic account of creation treated as a hypothesis which may be scientifically contrasted with evolution 334
CHAPTER X.
"Species," "races," and "varieties"—Sexual division—Causation 372
CHAPTER XI.
Origin of the human mind—Mr. Spencer's theory of the composition of mind—His system of morality 394
CHAPTER XII.
Mr. Spencer's philosophy as a whole—His psychology, and his system of ethics—The sacred origin of moral injunctions, and the secularization of morals 434
CHAPTER XIII.
Sophereus discourses on the nature and origin of the human mind 467
Glossary 547
Index 557

CREATION OR EVOLUTION?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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