CONTENTS OF VOL. L 



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CHAPTER I. 



NATURE AND IMPORTANCE OF THE DOCTRINE OP FILIATION, 

 -cr OR DESCENT.THEORY. 



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General Importance and Essential Nature of the Theory of Descent as 

 reformed by Darwin, — Its Special Importance to Biology (Zoology 

 and Botany). — Its Special Importance to the History of the Natural 

 Development of the Human Race. — The Theory of Descent as the 

 Non-Miraculous History of Creation. — Idea of Creation. — Know, 

 ledge and Belief. — History of Creation and History of Development. 

 — The Connection between the History of Individual and Paloeonto- 

 logical Development. — The Theory of Purposelessness, or the 

 Science of Rudimentary Organs. — Useless and Superfluous Ar- 

 rangements in Organisms. — Contrast between the two entirely 

 Opposed Views of Nature : the Monistic (mechanical, causal) and 

 the Dualistic (teleological, vital). — Proof of the former by the 

 Theory of Descent. — Unity of Organic an4 Inorganic Nature, and 

 the Identity of the Active Causes in both. — The Importance of 

 the Theory of Descent to the Monistic Conception of all Nature ... 1 



CHAPTER II. 



SCIENTIFIC JUSTIFICATION OF THE THEORY OF DESCENT. 

 HISTORY OP CREATION ACCORDING TO LINN.^US. 



The Theory of Descent, or Doctrine of Filiation, as the Monistic Ex- 

 planation of Organic Natural Phenomena. — Its Comparison with 

 Newton's Theory of Gravitation. — Limits of Scientific Explanation 

 and of Human Knowledge in general. — All Knowledge founded 

 originally on Sensuous Experience, a posteriori. — Transition of d 

 posteriori knowledge, by inheritance, into a priori knowledge. — 

 Contrast between the Supernatural Hypotheses of the Creation ac- 



