THE NATURE AND RELATIONS OF MAN.
Position of Man according to the Heliocentric and Geocentric Theories.
Of Animal Life.—The transitory Nature of living Forms.—Relations of Plants and Animals.—Animals are Aggregates of Matter expending Force originally derived from the Sun.
The Organic Series.—Man a Member of it.—His Position determined by Anatomical and Physiological Investigation of his Nervous System.—Its triple Form: Automatic, Instinctive, Intellectual.
The same progressive Development is seen in individual Man, in the entire animal Series, and in the Life of the Globe.—They are all under the Control of an eternal, universal, irresistible Law.
The Aim of Nature is intellectual Development, and human Institutions must conform thereto.
Summary of the Investigation of the Position of Man.—Production of Inorganic and Organic Forms by the Sun.—Nature of Animals and their Series.—Analogies and Differences between them and Man.—The Soul—The World.
THE EUROPEAN AGE OF REASON—(Continued).
THE UNION OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.