PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.
PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.
CONTENTS.
PART I. WHAT IS EVOLUTION?
CHAPTER I. ITS SCOPE AND DEFINITION.
CHAPTER II. THE RELATION OF LOUIS AGASSIZ TO THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION.
PART II. EVIDENCES OF THE TRUTH OF EVOLUTION.
CHAPTER I. GENERAL EVIDENCES OF EVOLUTION AS A UNIVERSAL LAW.
CHAPTER II. SPECIAL PROOFS OF EVOLUTION. Introductory.
CHAPTER III. THE GRADES OF THE FACTORS OF EVOLUTION AND THE ORDER OF THEIR APPEARANCE.
CHAPTER IV. SPECIAL PROOFS, TAKEN FROM THE GENERAL LAWS OF
CHAPTER V. PROOFS FROM HOMOLOGIES OF THE VERTEBRATE SKELETON.
CHAPTER VI. HOMOLOGIES OF THE ARTICULATE SKELETON.
CHAPTER VII. PROOFS FROM EMBRYOLOGY, OR COMPARISON IN THE ONTOGENIC SERIES.
CHAPTER VIII. PROOFS FROM GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF ORGANISMS.
CHAPTER IX. PROOFS FROM VARIATION OF ORGANIC FORMS, ARTIFICIAL AND NATURAL.
PART III. THE RELATION OF EVOLUTION TO RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY.
CHAPTER II. THE RELATION OF EVOLUTION TO MATERIALISM.
CHAPTER III. THE RELATION OF GOD TO NATURE.
CHAPTER IV. THE RELATION OF MAN TO NATURE.
CHAPTER V. THE RELATION OF GOD TO MAN.
CHAPTER VI. THE OBJECTION, THAT THE ABOVE VIEW IMPLIES PANTHEISM, ANSWERED.
CHAPTER VII. SOME LOGICAL CONSEQUENCES OF THE DOCTRINE OF THE DIVINE IMMANENCY.
CHAPTER VIII. THE RELATION OF EVOLUTION TO THE IDEA OF THE CHRIST.
CHAPTER IX. THE RELATION OF EVOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM OF EVIL.
FOOTNOTES
INDEX
Transcribers' Notes
BY
JOSEPH LE CONTE
AUTHOR OF “RELIGION AND SCIENCE,” ETC.
AND PROFESSOR OF GEOLOGY AND NATURAL HISTORY IN THE
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
SECOND EDITION, REVISED
NEW YORK:
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY,
72 FIFTH AVENUE.
1897.
Copyright, 1888, 1891,
By D. APPLETON AND COMPANY.
