II. 



Man's Place in Nature, as affected by 

 Darwinism. 



JJHEN the Copernican astronomy 

 was finally established through the 

 discoveries of Kepler and Newton, 

 it might well have been pronounced the 

 greatest scientific achievement of the hu- 

 man mind ; but it was still more than that. 

 It was the greatest revolution that had 

 ever been effected in Man's views of his 

 relations to the universe in which he lives, 

 and of which he is at least during the 

 present life a part. During the nine- 

 teenth century, however, a still greater 

 revolution has been effected. Not only 

 has Lyell enlarged our mental horizon in 

 time as much as Newton enlarged it in 

 space, but it appears that throughout these 

 vast stretches of time and space with which 



