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Beastliness of Modern Civilization—Evolution the Only Remedy, Miss 
Mary A. Dodge (“Gail Hamilton”), Maine. Evolution and the Fair, 
John H. Copeland, Texas. The Evolutionary Basis of Social Econ- 
omies, Professor George Gunton, New York. The Relation of Evolu- 
tion to Political Economy, Charles S. Ashley, New York. Some 
American Problems of Evolutionary Economics, James A. Skilton, 
New York. Universal Economic Progress, as Related to Ethical 
Economy, Alfred W. Smith. 
A Symposium of Brief Papers on the following Questions: I. Does 
the doctrine of evolution, in its sociological aspects, in your opinion, 
offer wise suggestion for the solution of the grave social and economic 
problems of our time. II. What, in your judgment, in accordance with 
such suggestion, should be the next step taken, in our own country, 
looking toward the solution of these problems? Professor John Fiske, 
Massachusetts; Edmund Montgomery, M. D., Texas; R. W. Shufeldt, 
Washington, D. C.; Rev. Myron.Adams, New York ; Star Hoyt Nich- 
ols, New York ; F. M. Holland, Massachusetts; Benj. B. Kingsbury, 
Ohio; T. B. Wakeman, New York; Robert Matthews, New York; 
L. R. Klemm, Ph. D., Washington, D. C., Bayard Holmes, Illinois, and 
Others. 
September 29th.—Involution and Evolution, Professor Elliott Coues, 
Washington, D. C. Abstract of Paper on Monism (translated), Pro- 
fessor Ernst Haeckel, Jena, Germany. Evolution of Cosmic Matter, 
R. G. Eccles, M. A., New York. The Law of Evolution in the 
Spiritual Realm, Wm. Emmette Coleman, California. The Knowable 
and the Unknowable, Sylvan Gray, New York. Philosophy and the 
Aoctrine of Evolution, Raymond S. Perrin, New York. Evolution 
Optimistic, W. Alfred Cluett, New York. Influence of the Doctrine 
of Evolution on Ethical Sanctions, Rev. Minot J. Savage, Massachusetts. 
Intellectual Relations of Morality, C. Staniland Wake, England. Her- 
bert Spencer as a Teacher of Ethics, Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones, Illinois. 
Professor Huxley’s Surrender, Dr. Lewis G. Janes, New York. The 
Evolution of Morality, Rev. H. A. Simmons, Minnesota. The Morals 
of Evolution, James T. Bixby, Ph. D., New York. The Relations of 
Evolutionary Thought to the Belief in Immortality, Dr. Charles T. 
Stockwell, Massachusetts. The Evolution of the Old Testament 
Religion, Rabbi Emil G. Hirsch, Illinois. The Evolution of Apostolic 
Christianity, Rev. Howard MacQueary, Michigan. Christianity, in the 
Evolution of Religious Thought, Rev. Frank N. Riale, Ph. D., New 
York. The Future of Religious Evolution, Edward P. Powell, New 
York. The Higher Evolution, Celestia Root Lang, Ohio. 
