PREFACE 



Ix this volume, I have undertaken discussion of the 

 problem concerning Man s Place in Nature. The 

 discussion proceeds from the standpoint of Evolution 

 of Organic Life, as maintained by Mr. Darwin, and by 

 Mr. Alfred Russel Wallace. The main objects are to 

 trace the evidence of man s relation to the continuity 

 of life on the earth, and to describe the distinctive 

 characteristics of human life itself. 



Not without misgivings and apprehensions, have I 

 undertaken this difficult task. Not without diffi 

 dence, do I now submit the outcome to criticism. 

 I fully recognise the demand which science makes 

 on the teachers of philosophy, and I here humbly 

 offer a contribution towards its satisfaction. What 

 ever of failure may appear in this attempt, I may have 

 succeeded in so far opening the way through the 

 entanglements encompassing our higher biological 

 problems. I am not without hope that these pages 

 may carry help to many who have found it difficult 

 to reconcile with acceptance of evolution, their 



