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. CHAPTER IX THE TEACHINGS OF THE BIBLE 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. CHAPTER X PRESENT ASPECTS OF THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION 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. CHART SHOWING SEQUENCE OF ATTAINMENTS AND OF DOMINANT FUNCTIONS PHYLOGENETIC CHART OF THE ANIMAL KINGDOM INDEX 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 his father, the Rev. Jedediah Morse, D.D., theologian, geographer, and gazetteer. The subject of the lectures was to have to do with "The relations of the Bible to any of the sciences." The ten chapters of this book correspond to ten lectures, eight of which were delivered as Morse Lectures at Union Theological Seminary during the early spring of 1895. The first nine chapters appear in form and substance as they were given in the lectures, except that Chapters VI. and VII. were condensed in one lecture. Chapter X. is new, and I have not hesitated to add a few paragraphs wherever the argument seemed especially to demand further evidence or illustration. One of my friends, reading the title of these lectures, said: "Of man's origin you know nothing, of his future you know less." I fear that many share his opinion, although they might not express it so emphatically.