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70 2. Preformation and Epigenesis 73 Preformation and the infinite regress 74 The Origin of Life: various theories 75 The Origin of Man as viewed from different standpoints 78 The Generatio Æquivoca 80 III. Theism and Evolution 82 The causal demand 82 Theism and the ideas of Continuity and Progress 83 Religion and scientific advance 85

CHAPTER III

The Psychology of Religion: its precursors and founders 89 I. The Psychology of Religious Experience: points emphasized in the discussion 92 1. The normality of religion 92 2. The power of religion in the individual and in society 96 3. The need of salvation 100 4. The way of salvation 102 II. The Metaphysical Implicates of Religious Experience 105 1. The Physical Explanation: religion the result of bodily conditions; religion and sex 106 2. The Psychological Explanation: religion and the subconscious 111 3. The Social Explanation: religion and society 114 4. The Theistic Inference 119 The Pragmatic Argument for Theism 119 The Mystical Argument: its strength and its weakness 120 The Evidence of Christian Experience 122

CHAPTER IV

The philosophical situation at the opening of the century 125 Leading representatives of present day philosophy 127 I. Bergson and Creative Evolution 127 Creative Evolution a drama in three acts 128 Features of Bergson's system: