CONTENTS. 



. ORDER AND SUCCESSION OF LIFE. 



LIFE, ITS NATURE AND FUNCTION INTERDEPENDENCE OF 

 PLANTS AND ANIMALS HARMONY OF THEIR RELATIONS 

 THEIR EXISTING ASPECTS AND DISTRIBUTIONS ASPECTS 

 AND DISTRIBUTIONS OF THE PAST ADVANCE IN TIME FROM 

 LOWER TO HIGHER FORMS ORDER OF THIS PROGRESSION- 

 THEORIES OF LIFE-DEVELOPMENT HOW FAR PROBABLE 

 LAW OF CREATIONAL PROGRESS PROOFS OF ITS EXISTENCE 

 UNIVERSALITY OF ITS OPERATIONS ALIKE IN THE PHYSI- 

 CAL, VITAL, AND INTELLECTUAL ITS ENDURANCE, . 293 



XIX. WHAT OF THE FUTURE ? 



POSSIBILITY OF INDICATING THE FUTURE OF OUR PLANET 

 OPINION OF DR BUTTON EVERYTHING IN NATURE, PHYSI- 

 CAL AND VITAL, PASSING ON TO NEWER FORMS AND CON- 

 DITIONSNEW DISTRIBUTIONS OF SEA AND LAND NEW 

 CLIMATES AND PHYSICAL SURROUNDINGS NEW ARRANGE- 

 MENTS OF PLANTS AND ANIMALS NEW DEVELOPMENTS, 

 OR HIGHER AND HIGHER LIFE- FORMS MAN SUBJECT TO 

 THE SAME LAW OF PROGRESSION INFLUENCE OF MAN ON 

 THE FUTURE SLOW AND GRADUAL RATE OF NATURE'S OPE- 

 RATIONS EXALTED CONCEPTIONS OF THE UNIVERSE IN- 

 SPIRED BY THE BELIEF IN A LAW OF INCESSANT DEVELOP- 

 MENT AND PROGRESS, ..... 309 



