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and adaptive structures — Instincts and number of eggs — In- 

 stincts and peculiarities of structure of the water spider — In- 

 stincts of spiders and adaptive structures — Evolution fails to 

 account for the simultaneous production of instincts and the 

 structures that " render them useful — Instincts of a scavenger 

 beetle — Instincts of the beaver. . . . 204-229 



XV. THE ORIGIN OF MAN. 



Length of time he has been here — Some of the oldest known skulls — 

 Difficulties as to evolving man's body — The sizes of the brains of 

 men and apes — Mental powers of savages greater than would be 

 expected — No low race of man serving as a connecting link — The 

 greatest differences between man and animals are psychic — 

 Enumeration of mental powers of animals as given by Darwin — 

 Darwin's admissions as to deficiency of certain powers in ani- 

 mals—Low moral standing of savages does not favor evolution- 

 Darwin's theory as to the origin of the moral sense — The general 

 good of the community the test — "Ought" employs "the con- 

 sciousness of a persistent instinct" — Habits probably not in- 

 herited — Spencer's theory as to the origin of instincts — Darwin's 

 definition of a moral being — Evolution assumes that all psychic 

 phenomena are essentially alike — " Experiences of utility " cannot 

 create, but only improve faculties — The faculties of the mind are 

 essentially different — Spencer's theory that all the faculties are 

 composed of units of feeling that are fundamentally alike — One 

 feeling cannot be derived from another — Spencer's theory that 

 "mind is resolvable into nervous shocks " — The authority of con- 

 science — Animals are destitute of conscience — Instincts do not 

 speak with the authority of conscience — Mind as a controlling 

 power in nature— Mind not resolvable into matter plus motion — 

 Our knowledge of mind is immediate — Relations of mind to other 

 things — Mind is ever conscious of its supremacy — How explain 

 the act of remembering? It is not sensation — Reason, will, and 

 other faculties are not sensations — Dana's belief in a Divine 

 Being. ........ 230-265 



XVI. A FUTURE LIFE. 



Ether a universal medium and God a Universal Spirit — The general 

 hope of the human race as to the future — Means in nature for 

 satisfying every natural desire — Indestructibility of matter and 

 energy and mind — The mystery of inheritance — A future life 

 necessary to fulfill the possibilities of mind — Faith, hope, love, 

 reason, conscience and imagination look to the future — Life and 

 death both parts of the universal plan — The upward progress 

 through the ages points to the future. . . . 266-271 



