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1. (Dec. 15, 1889.) 1<>. 



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CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER: 



THE SCOPE AND PRINCIPLES OF 

 THE EVOLUTION PHILOSOPHY 



BY 



LEWIS G. JANES 



AuTHOK OF "A Study of Primitive Ciiklstiaxity," "The Evolution of 

 THE Earth," "Evolution of Morals," etc., etc. 



The eye reads omens lohere it goes, 

 And speaks all languaijes the rose ; 

 And, striving to be man, the worm 

 Mounts through all the spires of form. 



— Nature, i., 7. 



The fossil strata show us that Nature began with rudimental forms, and rose 

 to the uxire ((iinjilex as fast as the earth was fit for their dwelling-place; and 

 that the lower perish as the higher ajipear. Very few of our race can be said to 

 be yet finished men. We still carry sticking to us some remains of the preced- 

 ing' inferior (]uailrupe(l nrganizatidn. . . 'I'lie age of the quadrui>e(l is to go out, 

 — the age of the lirain anil of the heart is to coine in. And it one sliall read the 

 future of the racr hinted in the organic elfi.rt of Nature to mount and melior- 

 ate, and the corresjioniling imiiulsc to the Hettcr in the liuman being, we shall 

 dare altirm that there is nothing he will not overcome and convert, \intil at last 

 <'ulture shall absorb the chaos and gehenna. He will convert the Furies into 

 Muses and the hells into benefit. — Culture. 



—Ralph Waldo Emerson. 



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