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PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.

PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.

PART I. WHAT IS EVOLUTION?

CHAPTER I. ITS SCOPE AND DEFINITION.

Definition of Evolution.

The Above Three Laws Are Laws of Evolution.

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 ANIMAL STRUCTURE, OR FROM COMPARISON IN THE TAXONOMIC SERIES. General Principles.

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.

Continental Faunas and Floras.

Theory of the Origin of Geographical Diversity.

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.

I. Conception of God.

II. Question of First and Second Causes.

III. Question of General and Special Providence.

IV. The Natural and the Supernatural.

V. Question of Design in Nature.

VI. Question of the Mode of Creation.

CHAPTER VIII. THE RELATION OF EVOLUTION TO THE IDEA OF THE CHRIST.

CHAPTER IX. THE RELATION OF EVOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM OF EVIL.

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