THE ORIGIN OF STRUCTURAL VARIATIONS.

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The inadequacy of natural selection. Bathmogenesis. Use
as affecting structure and function. The heredity of ac-
quired characters. The functions of consciousness.

By PROFESSOR EDWARD D. COPE, Ph. D.

LOCOMOTION AND ITS RELATION TO SURVIVAL.... 189

Evolution of muscle-fiber. Locomotion in birds, animals

and man. Physical culture as related to health and sur-

vival. Evils of athleticism.

By DR. MARTIN L. HOLBROOK.

LABOR AS A FACTOR IN EVOLUTION...........

Defects in our educational methods. Labor the best edu-

cation. Value of manual and intellectual pursuits. The

life-saving influence of pains taking work.

By DR. DAVID Allyn Gorton.

PROTECTIVE CoverinG....

Its evolutionary history and meaning, plants, animals and

men. Evolution of clothing. Modesty. The relation

of clothing to health and survival.

By MRS. Lizzie CHENEY-WARD.

SHELTER, AS RELATED TO THE EVOLUTION OF

LIFE........

Advantages and disadvantages of shelter. Geographical

distribution and climate as affecting its evolution. Its in-

dividual and æsthetic aspects. Spiritual shelters. Home,

and the social aspect.

HABIT....

By Z. SIDNEY SAMPSON.

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277

The evolution of habit. Its psychological and ethical as-

pects. Its relation to instinct. The cultivation of habits

as related to survival.

By REV. JOHN WHITE CHADWICK.

FROM NATURAL TO CHRISTIAN Selection.......

How moral fitness is evolved, and made the ultimate goal

of human evolution. Wisdom of the "survival of the

fittest." How the unfit are made to help the evolution of

the fit. Altruism the flower of egoism. The real unity

of nature's evolutionary process.

By REV. JOHN C. KIMBALL,

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SANITATION.......

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Larger and narrower views of sanitation. The former seeks

to prevent disease and death-the latter to cure existing

evils by specific remedies. The former the evolutionary

view. Obedience to cosmic law the essential principle

of true sanitation. Ethical and religious aspects of the

problem.

By JAMES AVERY SKILTON.

RELIGION AS A FACTOR IN SOCIAL EVOLUTION.

The parallel lines of religious and governmental evolution,

From animism to cosmic theism. Religion as a cement

to society. Failure of cults based on efforts at dogmatic

unity. The church of the future-a federation, not a

negation of sects.

By REV. EDWARD P. POWELL.

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COSMIC EVOLUTION, AS RELATED TO ETHICS

BY

DR. LEWIS G. JANES

COLLATERAL READINGS SUGGESTED.

Spencer's First Principles, Principles of Psychology, and Principles of Ethics; Fiske's Cosmic Philosophy; Powell's Our Heredity from God; Bain's Mind and Body; Picton's The Mystery of Matter, and The Philosophy of Ignorance; Clifford's Body and Mind, Seeing and Thinking, and The Scientific Basis of Morals; Wake's Evolution of Morality; Lankester's Degeneration: A Chapter in Darwinism; Hinton's Life in Nature, and Mystery of Pain, Arabella Buckley's The Moral Teachings of Science; Huxley's Evolution and Ethics (Oxford Address).