PREFACE 



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Lecture I. What claim for consideration has 

 the doctrine of development (or evolution) 

 regarded as a scientific hypothesis and 

 theory ? How far is it firmly based on 

 facts ? Is it, or is it not, in opposition 

 the Christian view of creation ? 



Lecture II. Is the Monistic assertion 

 that a scientific doctrine of evolutio 

 monises only with Monism, and no 

 Theism, as regards the view 

 creation ? Which of the two view 

 ferable in the case of a scientis 

 capable also of philosophic though 

 account can be given of the popujfti 

 fication of Darwinism with the Th 

 Evolution ? Is it scientific or not, 

 what results does it lead 



Lecture III. What is the 

 the problem of evolutio 

 to consider this 

 zoological 



m 



sible 

 purely 

 we bound 

 r considerations 



bring 



t are the zoological 

 proofs of the descent 



of devoting an evening to discussion, 

 ielivery of the lectures, was to elicit 

 i statement of the scientific divergencies 

 n between myself and my opponents, for 



