CONTENTS. 



I. Man's Place in Nature as affected by the 

 Copernican Theory .... 

 II. As affected by Darwinism . . . 18 



III. On the Earth there will never be a Higher 



__ Creature than Man . . . .26 



IV. The Origin of Infancy ... ^5 

 V. The Dawning of Consciousness . . 42 



VI. Lengthening of Infancy and Concomitant 



Increase of Brain-Surface . . ^/ 



VII. Change in the Direction of the Working 



of Natural Selection . . . . 58 

 VIII. Growing Predominance of the Psychical 



Life 62 



IX. The Origins of Society and of Morality . 66 

 X. Improvableness of Man ... 77 

 XI. Universal Warfare of Primeval Men . 77 

 XII. First checked by the Beginnings of Indus- 

 trial Civilisation 81 



XIII. Methods of Political Development, and 



Elimination of Warfare . . . 8$ 



