PREFACE.

CONTENTS.

NOTES to pp. 13 and 34.

DARWINISM.

DARWINISM. (2)

THE NOACHIAN FLOOD. 17

INSTINCT AND REASON.

HUMAN NATURE AND BRUTE NATURE. 42

THE LAPSE OF TIME.

NOTE ON THE HYPOTHESIS OF SPONTANEOUS GENERATION.

THE IMPERFECTION OF THE GEOLOGICAL RECORD.

DARWINISM. THE NOACHIAN FLOOD.

SCIENCE AND RELIGION.

DARWINISM, AND THE FIRST VERTEBRATE.

THE FIRST VERTEBRATE, AND THE BEGINNING OF REASON.

OYSTERS OF THE CHALK, AND THE THEORY OF DEVELOPMENT. 65

THE MATHEMATICAL TEST OF NATURAL SELECTION. 66

THE GENESIS OF SPECIES.

FOOTNOTES.

INDEX.

Transcriber's Notes

BY
THOMAS R. R. STEBBING, M.A.

Late Fellow and Tutor of Worcester College, Oxford.

LONDON: LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. 1871.

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