CONTENTS. XI 



Inferences as to Man's Antiquity from the paoe 

 known rate of Progress in Civilisation and Re- 

 finement. 



Our Fifth Proposition. 



His Geological Relations ... 118 



Relative Chronology of Geology. 

 Nature of Geological Evidence. 

 Ages of stone, bronze, and iron. 

 High Antiquity of Man in "Western Europe, as 



evidenced by his Pre-historic Remains. 

 Higher Inferential Antiquity in Asia and the 



East. 

 Our Sixth Proposition. 



His Genetic Relations . 139 



Order and Succession of Life in Time. 

 Hypothesis of Development or Derivative 



Descent. 

 Its Proofs and Probabilities. 

 As applicable to the Human Race. 

 Not necessarily Degrading. 

 Manner in which it should be received. 

 Our Seventh Proposition. 



Man : Whither ? 



His Progkbssive Relations ... 163 



Natural Tendency to be interested in the Future. 

 Incessant Change and Progress in Nature. 

 Extinction and Creation ever coincident. 

 Higher Physical Developments. 

 No Abatement of Cosmical Forces. 

 Intellectual and Moral Ascension. 



