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representative governments; constitutions written and 

 unwritten; the American Republic its success and its 

 dangers; evils of municipal government; what final form 

 will the State assume ? 



By John A. Taylor. 



Evolution of Law, Ill 



How law begins; statute law and judge-made law; the con- 

 version of customs into law; religious sanctions; legal 

 fictions; the development of equity jurisprudence; the 

 common law; legislation; the codification of laws; laws 

 for the collection of debts; personal rights under the law. 



By Prof. Rufus Sheldon. 



Evolution' of Medical Science, 133 



Supernatural ideas of disease; fetishism in medicine; the 

 beginnings of medical science; Pythagoras and Hippoc- 

 rates, Celsus and Galen; Christianity and medical science; 

 the Mohammedan influence; homeopathy and allopathy; 

 foods and poisons; the development of surgery, anatomy, 

 physiology, chemistry and pharmacy; bacteriology; the 

 growth of sanitary science. 



By Robert G. Eccles, M.D. 



Evolution of Arms and Armor, 159 



Tlie necessity for arms and armor under the struggle for 

 existence; Nature's two methods among animals, plants, 

 men, nations; how arms and armor have led to the indus- 

 trial arts; to a higher manhood; to co-operative effort; to 

 individualism; the weapons of thought; our National 

 policy as regards defenses; the two methods in religion, 

 morals, law, social safety; on this rude stalk the flower 

 at last of universal peace. 



By Rev. John C. Kimball. 



Evolution of the Mechanic Arts, 191 



Development of the human hand; the earliest use of imple- 

 ments and tools; man's mechanical structure and adap- 

 tation for work; the psychology of the mechanic arts; the 

 relation of mechanics to mental evolution; the genesis of 

 invention; patents and patent-laws; inventions in agricul- 

 ture and manufactures; have they benefited the laboring 

 classes ? 



By Jaaies a. Skilton. 



Evolution of the Wages System, 217 



The definition of wages; economic characteristics of the 

 wages system; wages the outgrowth of slavery; origin 

 and development of the wages system; its relation to 



