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5, Real danger of Darwinism and the evolution philosophy in 

 another direction; tends to make not Matter but Chance 

 the author of all. Proof of this. Why and in what sense 

 we must believe in Purpose ... .. ... ... 337 



CHAPTER III. 



ON THE DEVELOPED CONCEPTION OF GOD. 



1. The modern conception of God. Its origin and development... 345 



2. The conception illustrated in detail. How far it coincides with 



the Ultimate Reality of Herbert Spencer, with the Infinite 

 Substance of Spinoza ... ... ... ... 347 



3. The conception of Kant and Schleiermacher ... ... 352 



4. Will the new conception offer a barrier to the new materialism 



in alliance with evolution ? ... ... ... ... 354 



5. Can theology accept it ? ... ... ... .. ... 356 



6. Theory considered that God can be known in other and human 



relations by a special religious sense ... ... ... 358 



7. True source of the supposed intuitions of the religious sense... 3(32 



8. Source of the complete conception of God so far as possible by 



our minds. Elements of the conception furnished by re- 

 ligion, philosophy, art, and science ... ... ... 3GG 



CHAPTER IV. 



OBJECTIONS TO THE EVOLUTION ETHICS. 



1. (1) That the new teaching destroys virtue by making it a 

 matter of human invention. (2) That it makes the authority 

 of conscience questionable and of no effect ... ... 369 



2. (3) That the relaxed sense of moral obligation will destroy 

 society and civilization. Parallels of history. Stages of 

 moral decay specified. This result more to be dreaded if 

 the theory of the mechanical or materialistic derivatiou of 

 all actions is accepted ... ... ... ... 378 



CHAPTER V. 



CONFLICT AND PARTIAL CONCILIATION BETWEEN THE NEW AND OLD ETHICS. 



1. Only mode of partial conciliation. Concession by evolutionist 

 to the spiritualist and moral idealist. Nature of our moral 

 impulses to be learned from the impulses themselves, not 

 from their origin. Our obligation to truth and justice. 

 Limitation to the possible ... ... ... ... 383 



2. Evolutionists may concede that men follow ideals more than 



ever. Morality will not be touched in essence ; but a new 

 valuation of the virtues may be required. Doctrine of 

 heredity 390 



3. Irreducible contradictions between real and ideal morality. The 



contradictions in our nature and in the conditions of life. 

 Tendency to further conciliation, ever short of full harmony 398 



