CONTENTS 



PART I 



Nature 

 Chapter I 



PAGE 



The Old Secularism of the " Seventies " 3 



Chapter II 

 The New Secularism of To-day 11 



Chapter III 



Rationalism and Materialistic Monism professedly based on 



Darwinism . . . . . . . . . • 17 



Chapter IV 



Materialistic and Theistic Views of the Evolution of the Inorganic 



World 28 



Chapter V 

 Haeckel's Materialistic Theory of the Origin of Living Beings . 38 



Chapter VI 

 Life and its Phenomena 49 



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