Evolution : Its Nature, its Evidences and its Relation to Religious Thought (Paperback)

Preface to the second edition; Preface to the first edition; Part I. What is Evolution?: 1. Its scope and definition; 2. The relation of Louis Agassiz to the theory of evolution; Part II. Evidences of the Truth of Evolution: 1. General evidences of evolution as a universal law; 2. Special proofs of evolution; 3. The grades of the factors of evolution and the order of their appearance; 4. Special proofs from the general laws of animal structure; 5. Proofs from the homologies of the vertebrate skeleton; 6. Homologies of the articulate skeleton; 7. Proofs from embryology; 8. Proofs from geographical distribution of organisms; 9. Proofs from variation of organic forms, artificial and natural; Part III. The Relation of Evolution to Religious Thought: 1. Introductory; 2. The relation of evolution to materialism; 3. The relation of God to nature; 4. The relation of man to nature; 5. The relation of God to man; 6. The objection, that the above implies pantheism, answered; 7. Some logical consequences of the doctrine of the divine immanency; 8. Relation of evolution to the idea of the Christ; 9. The relation of evolution to the problem of evil; Index.