The Destiny of Man : Viewed in the Light of his Origin (Paperback)

Preface; 1. Man's place in nature as affected by the Copernican theory; 2. As affected by Darwinism; 3. On the earth there will never be a higher creature than man; 4. The origin of infancy; 5. The dawning of consciousness; 6. Lengthening of infancy and concomitant increase of brain-surface; 7. Change in the direction of the working of natural selection; 8. Growing predominance of the psychical life; 9. The origins of society and of morality; 10. Improvableness of man; 11. Universal warfare of primeval men; 12. First checked by the beginnings of industrial civilisation; 13. Methods of political development, and elimination of warfare; 14. End of the working of natural selection upon man; 15. The message of Christianity; 16. The question as to a future life.