CONTENTS. 



LECTURES. 



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I. HEREDITARY DESCENT IN ANCIENT GREECE . . 10 



II. MAUDSLEY ON HEREDITARY DESCENT 36 



III. NECESSARY BELIEFS INHERENT IN THE PLAN OF 



THE SOUL 63 



IV. DARWIN'S THEORY OF PANGENESIS 95 



V. DARWIN ON THE ORIGIN OF CONSCIENCE .... 127 



VI. WHAT CAUSES UNLIKENESS IN ORGANISMS? . . 148 



VII. LOTZE ON THE UNION OF SOUL AND BODY ... 178 



VIII. THE TWOFOLD IDENTITY OF PARENT AND OFF- 

 SPRING 203 



IX. SEVEN PRINCIPAL LAWS OF HEREDITY .... 230 



X. THE DESCENT OF BAD TRAITS AND GOOD . . . 254 



PRELUDES. 



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I. SCHOOLS FOR THE AMERICAN INDIAN 3 



II. THE FUTURE OF AMERICAN POETRY 29 



HE. AN AMERICAN-ANGLICAN ALLIANCE 55 



IV. Is DEATH DISEMBODIMENT? 85 



V. SCHOBERLEIN ON IMMORTALITY 113 



VI. FINANCIAL HERESIES IN THE UNITED STATES . . 141 

 VH. AGRICULTURAL COLONIZATION OF THE UNEM- 

 PLOYED 169 



VIII. SCEPTICISM IN COLLEGES 193 



IX. THE ELBERFELD PLAN OF POOR-RELIEF .... 219 

 X. THE LESSER AND THE GREATER EASTERN QUES- 

 TION . , 24T 



