The two kinds of truth : a test of all theories with special application to those of creation, instinct, and immortality, and showing evolution to be a natural, not a universal, truth / by T.E.S.T., an old life member of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.

Date:
1890
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Credit: The two kinds of truth : a test of all theories with special application to those of creation, instinct, and immortality, and showing evolution to be a natural, not a universal, truth / by T.E.S.T., an old life member of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    LECTURE XIV. PAGE Origin of Life and Mind—Theories—Experiments at Creation—Protoplasm—The First Cause—Evolu- tion does not of Necessity Deny it r45 LECTURE XV. The Assumptions of Philosophers—Facts and Logic— Difficulties of the Evolution Theory—Dr. Dar- win’s Views—The Protoplasm Theory 155 LECTURE XVI. Plant Life and Animal Life—The Scale of Creation— The Impassable Gulf—Bridges of Smoke—Bridges of Ideas—Differences of Degree and of Kind ... 165 LECTURE XVII. Definition of Consciousness — Animal - Instinct is Unprogressive—The Test Applied again 177 LECTURE XVIII. Immortality—The Belief of the most Ancient Peoples 183 LECTURE XIX. The Origin of Reason—The Testimony of Science— Darwin, Spencer, Mill, Carpenter 193 LECTURE XX. Evidences of Design—Limitations of Natural Laws— The Husbandry in Heaven—Compensations ... ... 203