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CONTENTS OF THIS NU3IBEK: 



THE SCOPE AND PRINCIPLES OF 

 THE EVOLUTION PHILOSOPHY 



BY 



LEWIS G. JANES 



Author of "A Sttdy of Prijiitive Christianity," "The Evolution of 

 THE Earth," '-E volition of Morals," etc., etc. 



The. eye recuh omens inhere it yoes, 

 And si^eaks all languages 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 Xature began with rudimental forms, and rose 

 to the more complex as fast as the earth was tit for their dwelling-place ; and 

 that the lower perish as the higher appear. Very few of our race can 1)6 said to 

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

 ing' inferior quadruped organization. . . The age of the quadruped is to go out, 

 — the age of the hrain and of the heart is to come in. And if one shall read the 

 future of the race hinted in the organic effort of Xature to mount and melior- 

 ate, and the corresjionding impulse to the Better in the human lieing, we shall 

 dare attirm that there is nothing he will not overcome and convert, until at last 

 culture 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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