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ture. Subjected to modern intelligence 

 tests by the professor of psychiatry in 

 Columbia University, it was determined — 

 such power have intelligence tests — that 

 he thought as a man, and probably spoke as 

 a man, though with limited vocabulary. 

 During the long period of time that has 

 elapsed since the extinction of this type, 

 man has moved steadily upward in the 

 development of spirit. That, indeed, is 

 the moral of Evolution. And if we heed 

 the teachings of eugenics, his continued 

 progress is assured, i.e., "if our under- 

 standing of the spiritual, intellectual, as 

 well as physical values of races becomes 

 more widespread." Thus will he rise to 

 Parnassus. 



The book is generously illustrated, and 

 contains a bibliography and an index. 



STRENGTH OF RELIGION AS SHOWN 

 BY SCIENCE. Facilitating also Harmony 

 Within, and Unity Among, Various Faiths. 

 By Charles E. deM. Sajous. 



F. A. Davis Co. 

 $x_5o 5 x -j\; "L<yL Philadelphia 



This book is another attempt at recon- 

 ciliation. We cannot say that it has 

 converted us; the author's religion and his 

 science seem to us about equally dubious. 

 His cosmogony includes a God, as "a 

 primary, coordinative, and dominating 

 intelligence" (p. 131), and the ether, 

 which is "autonomous or self-acting, and 

 is thus independent functionally of God 

 after having been bestowed by him upon 

 nature at large" (p. 139). The ether is a 

 somewhat unruly agent, and is apt to 

 misbehave, to the damage of humanity; 

 this, however, is not God's fault, and it is 

 "both wrong and unjust" to blame Him 

 for earthquakes and volcanoes. Besides, 

 it is a man's own fault if he goes to live in a 



volcanic country; there are plenty of other 

 safer spots (pp. 140-145). 



As regards evolution, the author holds 

 that living forms are descended from 

 primordial one-celled ancestors, through a 

 process of evolution, but that each living 

 form has an entirely separate ancestry. In 

 the case of animals, the original ancestors 

 were created by the ether; in the case of 

 man, there was apparently a special act 

 of God, who planted a soul in the original 

 germ-cell (Ch. VI). 



The author holds that the fundamentals 

 of religion, as expounded by him, must be 

 taught in the public schools if the rising 

 tide of immorality is not to overwhelm us. 



CONCERNING MAN'S ORIGIN. Being 



the Presidential Address given at the Meeting 

 of the British Association held in Leeds on 

 August 31, 1 92 j, together with recent Essays on 

 Darwinian Subjects. 



By Sir Arthur Keith. G. P. Putnam's Sons 

 %-l.oo 5i x 8i; xi + 188 New York 



A collection of some of Sir Arthur's 

 essays on Darwinism. The first three 

 chapters contain his famous Presidential 

 Address before the British Association 

 delivered in August, 19x7, that came as a 

 challenge to Bryanism. In it is reviewed 

 the support given to evolution by the 

 paleontological discoveries made since 

 Darwin's day. Following are a lecture 

 about Darwin's life at Down, and several 

 on various aspects of evolution permeated 

 with the notion that it implies progress. 



There is nothing profound in the book, 

 and not a little that is dubious, e.g., "The 

 rage for cross-word puzzles is but one of 

 the modern symptoms of our hunger for 

 intellectual exercises." But it is never 

 dull. 



The treatment is not comprehensive 



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