| CHAPTER I. | ||
| PAGE | ||
| Nature and importance of the subject—Is there a relation of Creator and creature between God and man?—Rules of rational belief—Is natural theology a progressive science? | 1 | |
| CHAPTER II. | ||
| The Platonic Kosmos compared with the Darwinian theory of evolution | 44 | |
| CHAPTER III. | ||
| The Darwinian pedigree of man—The evolution of organisms out of other organisms, according to the theory of Darwin | 87 | |
| CHAPTER IV. | ||
| The doctrine of evolution according to Herbert Spencer | 131 | |
| CHAPTER V. | ||
| The doctrine of evolution according to Herbert Spencer further considered | 167 | |
| CHAPTER VI. | ||
| The doctrine of evolution according to Herbert Spencer further considered | 200 | |
| CHAPTER VII. | ||
| Mr. Spencer's agnosticism—His theory of the origin of religious beliefs—The mode in which mankind are to lose the consciousness of a personal God | 257 | |
| CHAPTER VIII. | ||
| The existence, attributes, and methods of God deducible from the phenomena of Nature—Origin of the solar system | 300 | |
| CHAPTER IX. | ||
| Does evolution account for the phenomena of society and of nature?—Necessity for a conception of a personal actor—Mr. Spencer's protoplasmic origin of all organic life—The Mosaic account of creation treated as a hypothesis which may be scientifically contrasted with evolution | 334 | |
| CHAPTER X. | ||
| "Species," "races," and "varieties"—Sexual division—Causation | 372 | |
| CHAPTER XI. | ||
| Origin of the human mind—Mr. Spencer's theory of the composition of mind—His system of morality | 394 | |
| CHAPTER XII. | ||
| Mr. Spencer's philosophy as a whole—His psychology, and his system of ethics—The sacred origin of moral injunctions, and the secularization of morals | 434 | |
| CHAPTER XIII. | ||
| Sophereus discourses on the nature and origin of the human mind | 467 | |
| Glossary | 547 | |
| Index | 557 |
CREATION OR EVOLUTION?