FACTORS IN 



Organic Evolution. 



A Syllabus of a Course of Elementary Lectures 

 delivered in Leiand Stanford Junior University. 



By DAVID STAEE JOEDAN, 



FTesldent of Leiand Stanford Junior TJniverslty. 



CONTENTS. 



The Unrolling of the Universe. Organic 



Evolution : The Development of 



Forms of Life, 

 Evolution as a Working Hypothesis, 

 What Evolution is not, 

 Variety in Life, 

 Unity in Life, 

 Heredity: The Great Conservative Force 



in Evolution, 

 Theories of Heredity, 

 The Cell and Heredity, 

 Amphimixis, 

 The Meaning of Sex, 

 The Cell Theory, 

 The Physical Basis of Heredity, 

 The Inheritance of Acquired Characters, 

 The Inheritance of Acquired Characters, 



Continued, 

 Significance of Morphology, 

 Ontogeny and Phylogeny, 

 Contemporary Evolution of Man, 

 The Gastraea Theory of Haeckel, 

 The Origin of the Eye, 

 The Origin of the Ear, 

 The Law of Individuality, 

 The Struggle for Existence, 

 Response to External Stimulus, 

 Natural Selection, 

 Natural Selection and Ethics, 

 Law of Self-Activity, 

 Law of Mutual Help, or Altruism, 

 The Origin of Goodness, 

 Degeneration, 

 Degeneration in Man, 

 The Industrial Struggle for Existence, 

 Isolation as a Factor in Evolution, 



Are Species Real ? 



Classification, 



Application of Theory of Descent to Tax- 

 onomy, 



Application of Theory of Descent to Tax- 

 onomy. — Object and Methods of 

 Taxonomic Work, 



Application of Theory of Descent to Tax- 

 onomy. — Illustration of the Ap- 

 plication of This Method. The 

 Descent of the Lepidoptera, 



Evolution of Plants, 



Evolution of the Higher Plants, 



Spontaneous Generation, 



Man's Place in Nature, 



Evolution in Social Institutions. — Prin- 

 ciples, 



Evolution of Social Institutions. — Appli- 

 cations and Illustrations, 



History of Evolution, 



After Darwin, 



Spencer's Formula of Evolution, 



Present Battle-Grounds of Evolution, 



The Philosophy of Despair, 



The Way out of Pessimism, 



Philosophy and Science, 



Religion and Science, 



The Evolution of Religion, 



Evolution and the Bible, 



The Fool-Killer and His Mission, 



The Evolution of the Idea of God, 



The Evolution of the Family, 



Saving Time, 



The Evolution of the Common Man, 



Books recommended. 



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