CONTENTS 



PART I 

 GENERAL 



CHAP. PAGE 



I. INTRODUCTORY THE MEANING OF EVOLUTION . 3^ 



II. THE PHILOSOPHIC TEMPER .... ... 16 



III. WHAT is MEANT BY PHILOSOPHY? 2 ^/ 



IV. THE FOUNDATION OF EVOLUTION 38 



V. THE EVOLUTION OF THE IDEA 55 



PART II 

 INORGANIC EVOLUTION 



VI. COSMIC EVOLUTION 69 



VII. ATOMIC EVOLUTION 83 



PART III 

 ORGANIC EVOLUTION 



VIII. GENERAL 95 



IX. THE ORIGIN OF LIFE ir 



X. HEREDITY AND VARIATION ll( &amp;gt; 



XI. THE FACTORS OF ORGANIC EVOLUTION . . . . 121 



XII. THE ORIGIN OF MAN i35 



XIII. EUGENICS THE FUTURE OF MAN .... 140 



XIV. SPENCER S CONTRIBUTIONS TO BIOLOGY . . . 154 



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