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| Human environment. — The development of the family as the school of man's training. — The family as the school of unselfishness and obedience. — The family as the basis of social life. — Society as an aid to conformity to environment by increasing intelligence and training conscience. — Mental and moral heredity. — Personal magnetism. — Man's search for a king. — The essence of Christianity. — Conformity to environment gives future supremacy, but often at the cost of present hardship. — Conformity as obedience to the laws of our being. — Environment best understood through the study of the human mind. — Productiveness and prospectiveness of vital capital. — Faith. |
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| CHAPTER VIII |
| MAN |
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| Composed of atoms and molecules, hence subject to chemical and physical laws. — As a living being. — As an animal. — As a vertebrate. — As a mammal. — As a social being. — As a personal and moral being. — The conflict between the higher and the lower in man. — As a religious being. — As hero. — He has not yet attained. — Future man. — He will utilize all his powers, duly subordinating the lower to the higher. — The triumph of the common people. |
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| CHAPTER IX |
| THE TEACHINGS OF THE BIBLE |
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| Subject of the Bible. — Man: Body, intellect, heart. — God: Law, sin, and penalty. — God manifested in Christ. — Salvation, the divine life permeating man — Faith. — Prayer. — Hope. — The Church. — The battle. — The victory. — The crown. |
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| CHAPTER X |
| PRESENT ASPECTS OF THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION |
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| The struggle for existence. — Natural selection. — Correlation of organs. — Fortuitous variation. — Origin of the fittest. — Nägeli's theory: Initial tendency supreme. — Weismann and the Neo-Darwinians: Natural selection omnipotent. — The Neo-Lamarckians. — Comparison of the Neo-Darwinian and the Neo-Lamarckian views. — "Individuality" the controlling power throughout the life of the organism. — Transmission of special effects of use and disuse. — Summary. |
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| CHART SHOWING SEQUENCE OF ATTAINMENTS AND OF DOMINANT FUNCTIONS |
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| PHYLOGENETIC CHART OF THE ANIMAL KINGDOM |
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| INDEX |
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CHAPTERS: Introduction, I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, Index
FIGURES: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
INTRODUCTION
In the year 1865 Professor Samuel Finley Breese Morse, to whom the world is indebted for the application of the principles of electro-magnetism to telegraphy, gave the sum of ten thousand dollars to Union Theological Seminary to found a lectureship in memory of
