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Lecture I. What claim for consideration has 

 the doctrine of development (or evolution) 

 regarded as a scientific hypothesis and 

 theory ? How far is it firmly based on 

 facts ? Is it, or is it not, in opposition to 

 the Christian view of creation ? 



Lecture II. Is the Monistic assertion true, 

 that a scientific doctrine of evolution har- 

 monises only with Monism, and not with 

 Theism, as regards the view taken of 

 creation ? Which of the two views is pre- 

 ferable in the case of a scientist who is 

 capable also of philosophic thought ? What 

 account can be given of the popular identi- 

 fication of Darwinism with the Theory of 

 Evolution ? Is it scientific or not, and to 

 what results does it lead ? 



Lecture III. What is the position of man in 

 the problem of evolution ? Is it permissible 

 to consider this question from a purely 

 zoological point of view, or are we bound 

 to bring other and higher considerations 

 to bear upon it ? What are the zoological 

 and palseontological proofs of the descent 

 of man from brutes ? 



The object of devoting an evening to discussion, 

 after the delivery of the lectures, was to elicit 

 a practical statement of the scientific divergencies 

 in opinion between myself and my opponents, for 



