CONTENTS. 



Intboductoet 15 



Nature and Importance of tlie Inquiry. 

 Greneral Unwillingness to approach it. 

 Theological Opposition and Misrepresentation. 

 Its Treatment as a Question of Natural History. 

 Ultimate Object, Truth and Rational Beliefs. 

 Bearing of the Inquiry on other Subjects of Re- 

 search. 



Man : Wheee ? 



His Zoological Relations .... 35 



Community of Life-Conditions. 

 Structural Affinity to other Animals. 

 Ascent through Adaptive Modiiication. 

 Principle of Variation ever Operative. 

 Mental Affinity to other Animals. 

 Man Improvable and Progressive. 

 Theory of Spiritual Community of Life. 

 Our First Proposition. 



His Geogkaphioal Relations .... 60 



Influence of External Conditions on Life. 

 Their Influence on Civilisation. 



