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? CHAPTER I. 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? Man finds himself in the universe a conscious and thinking being. He has to account to himself for his own existence. He is impelled to this by an irresistible propensity, which is constantly leading him to look both inward and outward for an answer to the questions: What am I? How came I to be? What is the limit of my existence? Is there any other being in the universe between whom and myself there exists the relation of Creator and creature?