CONTENTS OF VOL. I. 



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List of Plates ... «.. *.• ..» ••• ••• 3av 



List of Woodcuts ... ... ... ... ... xv 



List ot Genetic Tables .. . ... ... ... ... xviii 



Preface to the First Edition ... ... ... xix 



Preface to the Third Edition ... ... ... ... xxvii 



Prometheus ... ... ... ... ... xxxvii 



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CHAPTER I. ' 



THE FUNDAMENTAL LAW OF THE EVOLUTION OF OEGANISMS. '■ 



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GencTal Significance of the History of the Evolution of Man. — Ignor- \ 

 ance of it among the so-called Educated Classes. — The Two i 

 Branches of the History of Evolution. — Ontogeny, or the History ! 

 of Germs (Embryos), and Phylogeny, or the History of Descent (or ' \ 

 of the Tribes). — Causal Connection betAveen the Two Series of \ 

 Evolution. — The Evolution of the Tribe determines the Evolution , 

 of the Germ. — Ontogeny as an Epitome or Recapitulation of Phy. j 

 logeny. The Incompleteness of this Epitome. — The Fundamental 

 Law of Bicgeny. — Heredity and Adaptation are the two Formative j 

 Functions, or the two Mechanical Causes, of Evolution, — Absence I 

 of Purposive Causes. — Validity of Me"chanical Causes only. — Sub- 

 stitution of the Monistic or Unitary for the Dualistic or Binary i 

 Cosmology. — Radical Importance of the Facts of Embryology to I 

 Monistic Philosophy. — Palingenesis, or Derived History, and Keno- I 

 genesis, or Vitiated History. — History of the Evolution of Forms j 

 and Functions. — Necessary Connection between Physiogeny and j 



