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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: LeConte, Joseph, 1823-1901. Evolution. New York, D. Appleton and Co., 1891 (OCoLC)594715097 |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Joseph LeConte |
OCLC Number: | 1469876 |
Notes: | First ed. (1888) published under title: Evolution and its relation to religious thought. Includes index. |
Description: | xxii, 382 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm |
Contents: | Part I: What is evolution? -- Its scope and definition -- The relation of Louis Agassiz to the theory of evolution. Part II: Evidences of the truth of evolution -- General evidences of evolution as a universal law -- Special proofs of evolution -- The grades of the factors of evolution and the order of their appearance -- Special proofs from the general laws of animal structure, or comparison in the taxonomic series -- Proofs from homologies of the vertebrate skeleton -- Homologies of the articulate skeleton -- Proofs from embryology, or comparison in the ontogenic series -- Proofs from geographical distribution of organisms -- Proofs from variation of organic forms, artificial and natural. Part III: The relation of evolution to religious thought -- Introductory -- The relation of evolution to materialism -- The relation of God to nature -- The relation of man to nature -- The relation of God to man -- The objection, that the above view implies Pantheism, answered -- Some logical consequences of the doctrine of divine immanency -- Relation of evolution to the idea of the Christ -- The relation of evolution to the problem of evil. |
Responsibility: | by Joseph Le Conte. |
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