Preface 



IT has been decided to publish, in booklet form, 

 Chapter IV from " In His Image." ' The com- 

 plete work contains nine religious lectures deliv- 

 ered by the author in October, 1921, at the Union 

 Theological Seminary, Richmond, Virginia, and this 

 Preface is intended to give a brief review of the book 

 from which the chapter is taken. The original title 

 of this chapter was " The Origin of Man," but as it 

 deals with Darwinism and the effect of that hypothesis 

 upon religious thought, the title is changed to '* The 

 Menace of Darwinism," in order to emphasize its 

 dominant note. 



The hypothesis to which Darwin*s name has been 

 attached was not original with him. Before the be- 

 ginning of the Christian era vague suggestions had 

 been made attributing to man a brute origin, but Dar- 

 win advanced explanations of the changes made neces- 

 sary by such an hypothesis and outlined a family tree 

 by which he attempted to connect man with all animal 

 life below him. He applied the doctrine of evolution 

 to man more definitely and defended it more elabo- 



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