Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative; Vol. 3 of 3 Library Edition (1891), Containing Seven Essays not before Republished, and Various other Additions.

PART III.—THE EVOLUTION OF LIFE.

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1. Preliminary. 2. General Aspects of the Special-Creation-Hypothesis. 3. General Aspects of the Evolution-Hypothesis. 4. The Arguments from Classification. 5. The Arguments from Embryology. 6. The Arguments from Morphology. 7. The Arguments from Distribution. 8. How is Organic Evolution caused? 9. External Factors. 10. Internal Factors. 11. Direct Equilibration. 12. Indirect Equilibration. 13. The Co-operation of the Factors. 14. The Convergence of the Evidences.

APPENDIX.

The Spontaneous-Generation Question.

CONTENTS OF VOL. II.