1896
Morse Lectures
1893—THE PLACE OF CHRIST IN
MODERN THEOLOGY. By Rev. A.M.
Fairbairn, D.D. 8vo, $2.50
1894—THE RELIGIONS OF JAPAN. By Rev.
William Elliot Griffis, D.D.
12mo, $2.00.
1895—THE WHENCE AND THE WHITHER OF
MAN. By Professor John M. Tyler.
12mo, $1.75.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
| [INTRODUCTION] | [ix] |
| [CHAPTER I] | |
| THE PROBLEM: THE MODE OF ITS SOLUTION | [1] |
| The question. — The two theories of man's origin. — The argumentpurely historical. — Means of tracing man's ancestry andhistory. — Classification. — Ontogenesis and Phylogenesis. | |
| [CHAPTER II] | |
| PROTOZOA TO WORMS: CELLS, TISSUES, AND ORGANS | [32] |
| Amœba: Its anatomy and physiology. — Development of the cell. — Hydra: The development of digestive and reproductive organs, and of tissues. — Forms intermediate between amœba and hydra: Magosphæra, volvox. — Embryonic development. — Turbellaria: Appearance of a body wall, of ganglion, and nerve-cords. | |
| [CHAPTER III] | |
| WORMS TO VERTEBRATES: SKELETON AND HEAD | [55] |
| Worms and the development of organs. — Mollusks: The externalprotective skeleton leads to degeneration or stagnation. — Annelidsand arthropods: The external locomotive skeleton leadsto temporary rapid advance, but fails of the goal. — Itsdisadvantages. — Vertebrates: The internal locomotive skeleton leadsto backbone and brain. — Reasons for their dominance. — The primitivevertebrate. | |
| [CHAPTER IV] | |
| VERTEBRATES: BACKBONE AND BRAIN | [81] |
| The advance of vertebrates from fish through amphibia and reptilesto mammals. — The development of skeleton, appendages, circulatoryand respiratory systems, and brain. — Mammals: The oviparousmonotremata. — Marsupials. — Placental mammals. — Development of theplacenta. — Primates. — Arboreal life and the development of thehand. — Comparison of man with the highest apes. — Recapitulation ofthe history of man's origin and development. — The sequence ofdominant functions. | |
| [CHAPTER V] | |
| THE HISTORY OF MENTAL DEVELOPMENT AND ITS SEQUENCE OF FUNCTIONS | [113] |
| Mode of investigation. — Intellect. — Sense-perceptions. — Association. — Inference and understanding. — Rational intelligence. — Modes of mentalor nervous action. — Reflex action, unconscious and comparativelymechanical. — Instinctive action: The actor is conscious, but guidedby heredity. — Intelligent action. — The actor is conscious, guided byintelligence resulting from experience or observation. — The willstimulated by motives. — Appetites. — Fear and other prudentialconsiderations. — Care for young and love of mates. — The dawn ofunselfishness. — Motives furnished by the rational intelligence:Truth, right, duty. — Recapitulation: The will, stimulated by everhigher motives, is finally to be dominated by unselfishness and loveof truth and righteousness. — These rouse the only inappeasablehunger, and are capable of indefinite development. — Strength ofthese motives. — Their complete dominance the goal of human development. | |
| [CHAPTER VI] | |
| NATURAL SELECTION AND ENVIRONMENT | [152] |
| The reversal of the sequence of functions leads to extermination,degeneration, or, rarely, to stagnation. — Natural selection becomesmore unsparing as we go higher. — Extinction. — Severity of thestruggle for life. — Environment one. — But lower animals come intovital relation with but a small part of it. — It consists of a myriadof forces, which, as acting on a given form, may be considered asone grand resultant. — Environment is thus a power making at firstfor digestion and reproduction, then for muscular strength andactivity, then for shrewdness, finally for unselfishness andrighteousness. — An ultimate "power, not ourselves, making forrighteousness," a personality. — Our knowledge of this personalitymay be valid, even though very incomplete. — Religion. — Conformity tothe spiritual in or behind environment is likeness to God. — Theconservative tendency in evolution. | |
| [CHAPTER VII] | |
| CONFORMITY TO ENVIRONMENT | [177] |
| Human environment. — The development of the family as the school ofman's training. — The family as the school of unselfishness andobedience. — The family as the basis of social life. — Society as anaid to conformity to environment by increasing intelligence andtraining conscience. — Mental and moral heredity. — Personalmagnetism. — Man's search for a king. — The essence ofChristianity. — Conformity to environment gives future supremacy, butoften at the cost of present hardship. — Conformity as obedience tothe laws of our being. — Environment best understood through thestudy of the human mind. — Productiveness and prospectiveness ofvital capital. — Faith. | |
| [CHAPTER VIII] | |
| MAN | [210] |
| Composed of atoms and molecules, hence subject to chemical andphysical laws. — As a living being. — As an animal. — As avertebrate. — As a mammal. — As a social being. — As a personal andmoral being. — The conflict between the higher and the lower inman. — As a religious being. — As hero. — He has not yetattained. — Future man. — He will utilize all his powers, dulysubordinating the lower to the higher. — The triumph of the commonpeople. | |
| [CHAPTER IX] | |
| THE TEACHINGS OF THE BIBLE | [241] |
| Subject of the Bible. — Man: Body, intellect, heart. — God:Law, sin, and penalty. — God manifested in Christ. — Salvation, the divinelife permeating man — Faith. — Prayer. — Hope. — The Church. — Thebattle. — The victory. — The crown. | |
| [CHAPTER X] | |
| PRESENT ASPECTS OF THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION | [278] |
| The struggle for existence. — Natural selection. — Correlation oforgans. — Fortuitous variation. — Origin of the fittest. — Nägeli'stheory: Initial tendency supreme. — Weismann and the Neo-Darwinians:Natural selection omnipotent. — The Neo-Lamarckians. — Comparison ofthe Neo-Darwinian and the Neo-Lamarckian views. — "Individuality" thecontrolling power throughout the life of the organism. — Transmissionof special effects of use and disuse. — Summary. | |
| CHART SHOWING SEQUENCE OF ATTAINMENTS AND OF DOMINANT FUNCTIONS | [309] |
| PHYLOGENETIC CHART OF THE ANIMAL KINGDOM | [310] |
| INDEX | [311] |