Contents. ix 



THE EVOLUTION OF SCULPTURE, 345 



Characteristics of different periods; Egyptian and Assyrian 

 types; Greek and Roman sculpture; place of the art in the 

 evolution of man's psychic nature. 



BY THOMAS DAVIDSON. 



THE EVOLUTION OF PAINTING, 363 



Its earlier and later phases ; history of the art ; its leading repre- 

 sentatives ; its growth hampered and encouraged by religion ; 

 its relation to culture and morality. 



BY FOEEEST P. RUNDELL. 



THE EVOLUTION OF Music, 385 



Subjective nature of the art; development of melody; ethnic 

 contributions to the art; development of harmony and poly- 

 phony ; the melodic-polyphonic stage ; music's wonderful dem- 

 onstration of the law of evolution. 



BY Z. SIDNEY SAMPSON. 



LIFE AS A FINE ART, 407 



The art of right living ; empirical, scientific, and artistic or phi- 

 losophical ideals in the government of life ; these ideals tested 

 by the principles of evolution ; their true ethical significance. 

 BY DE. LEWIS G. JANES. 



THE DOCTRINE OF EVOLUTION : ITS SCOPE AND IN- 

 FLUENCE, 435 



New method of writing history; modern conceptions of space 

 and time relations ; the new astronomy and geology ; zoology 

 and embryology ; contributions of Darwin and Spencer to the 

 doctrine ; Herbert Spencer its true father ; growth of the con- 

 ception in his mind; alleged materialism of his philosophy 

 refuted. ' 



BY JOHN FISKE, M. A. 



Index, . 467 



