NEW YORK:
SCRIBNER, ARMSTRONG, AND COMPANY.

1874.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1874, by

SCRIBNER, ARMSTRONG, & COMPANY,

in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

IMPORTANCE OF THE QUESTION

Different THEORIES AS TO THE ORIGIN OF THE UNIVERSE,

AND SPECIALLY OF VEGETABLE AND ANIMAL ORGANISMS.

1. The Scriptural Theory

2. The Pantheistic Theory

3. The Epicurean Theory

4. The Doctrine of Herbert Spencer

5. Hylozoic Theory .

6. Unscriptural Forms of Theism

DARWIN'S THEORY

NATURAL SELECTION

CONTENTS.

SENSE IN WHICH DARWIN USES THE WORD NATURAL

THE THREE ELEMENTS OF DARWINISM

THE EXCLUSION OF DESIGN IN NATURE THE FORMATIVE IDEA

of DARWIN'S THEORY

PROOF OF DARWIN'S DENIAL OF TELEOLOGY, FROM HIS OWN

WRITINGS

PROOF FROM THE EXPOSITIONS OF HIS THEORY BY ITS AVOWED

ADVOCATES.

Mr. Russell Wallace

Professor Huxley

Dr. Büchner

Carl Vogt

Prof. Haeckel

Strauss

Agassiz

Professor Janet

PROOF FROM THE OBJECTIONS URGED BY THE OPPONENTS OF

MR. DARWIN'S THEORY.

Duke of Argyll

M. Flourens

Rev. Walter Mitchell

Principal Dawson

RELATION OF DARWINISM TO RELIGION

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