PREFACE. TABLE OF CONTENTS. Lecture First Series. CHRISTIANITY AND PHYSICAL SCIENCE. I. THE ARGUMENT FROM DESIGN AS AFFECTED BY MODERN DISCOVERIES IN SCIENCE. CONSER- III. LIMITS TO THE LAW OF NATURAL SELECTION. THIS WORLD A SCENE OF STRUGggle. AP- PEARANCE OF SPIRITUAL LIFE. - FINAL Cause. -NEW LIFE.-UNITY AND GROWTH IN THE CHRISTIANITY AND MENTAL SCIENCE. IV. PROOF OF THE EXISTENCE OF MIND AND OF ITS 97 V. MENTAL PRINCIPLES INVOLVED IN THE THEISTIC ARGUMENT. - OUR IDEAS LEAD US TO BELIEVE IN GOD, AND CLOTHE HIM WITH POWER, PER- SONALITY, GOODNESS, AND INFINITY. GOD So VII. MATERIALISM. - CIRCUMSTANCES FAVORING IT. - PARTS OF THE BODY MOST INTIMATELY CONNECTED WITH MENTAL ACTION. GROSS- ER AND MORE REFINED FORMS OF MATE- RIALISM. BUCHNER, MAUDESLEY, BAIN, HUXLEY, TYNDAL, SPENCER. OBJECTIONS Third Series. CHRISTIANITY AND HISTORICAL INVESTI- GATION. CONTENTS. vii Lecture X. THE PLANTING OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. — LEGENDARY AND MYTHIC THEORIES. - Ac Page CORDANCE OF THE BOOK OF ACTS WITH 297 Article Appendix. 1. GAPS IN THE THEORY OF DEVELOPMENT II. DARWIN'S DESCENT OF MAN . III. PRINCIPLES OF HERBERT SPENCER'S PHILOSOPHY 362 LECTURES TO THE TIMES ON NATURAL THEOLOGY AND APOLOGETICS. I. THE ARGUMENT FROM DESIGN AS AFFECTED BY MODERN DISCOVERIES IN SCIENCE. CONSERVATION OF FORCE. - STAR DUST. — PROTOPLASM. ORIGIN OF Life. MR. R. J. S. MILL recommends those who would establish the existence of God to stick to the argument from design. As it is lawful to learn wisdom from an opponent, I take his counsel; and I stand by the evidence furnished by the order and adaptation in the universe. The a priori proof, so proudly advanced by the rationalists of the age now passing away, is not likely to meet with much acceptance in the time now present, when rationalism is being devoured by sensationalism, and the transcendental philosophy, with its much admired crystals, is melting away,—to give us, may I hope, something better, as much so as the buds and blossoms of spring are superior to the frost-work of winter.. The argument from design is that there are evidences everywhere, in heaven and earth, in plant and animal, of natural agents being so fitted to each other, and so combining to produce a beneficent end, as to show that intelligence must have been employed in co-ordinating and arranging |