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Start of eBook	1
The Infidel Half Century	1
THE ADVENT OF THE NEO-DARWINIANS	2
POLITICAL INADEQUACY OF THE HUMAN ANIMAL	2
COWARDICE OF THE IRRELIGIOUS	3
IS THERE ANY HOPE IN EDUCATION?	4
HOMEOPATHIC EDUCATION	4
THE DIABOLICAL EFFICIENCY OF TECHNICAL EDUCATION	5
FLIMSINESS OF CIVILIZATION	7
CREATIVE EVOLUTION	7
VOLUNTARY LONGEVITY	7
THE EARLY EVOLUTIONISTS	8
THE ADVENT OF THE NEO-LAMARCKIANS	10
HOW ACQUIREMENTS ARE INHERITED	11
THE MIRACLE OF CONDENSED RECAPITULATION	13
HEREDITY AN OLD STORY	16
DISCOVERY ANTICIPATED BY DIVINATION	17
CORRECTED DATES FOR THE DISCOVERY OF EVOLUTION	17
DEFYING THE LIGHTNING: A FRUSTRATED EXPERIMENT	19
IN QUEST OF THE FIRST CAUSE	20
PALEY’S WATCH	21
THE IRRESISTIBLE CRY OF ORDER, ORDER!	22
THE MOMENT AND THE MAN	23
THE BRINK OF THE BOTTOMLESS PIT	25
WHY DARWIN CONVERTED THE CROWD	27
HOW WE RUSHED DOWN A STEEP PLACE	28
DARWINISM NOT FINALLY REFUTABLE	30
THREE BLIND MICE	31
THE GREATEST OF THESE IS SELF-CONTROL	33
A SAMPLE OF LAMARCKO-SHAVIAN INVECTIVE	34
THE HUMANITARIANS AND THE PROBLEM OF EVIL	35
HOW ONE TOUCH OF DARWIN MAKES THE WHOLE WORLD KIN	36
WHY DARWIN PLEASED THE SOCIALISTS	37
DARWIN AND KARL MARX	38
WHY DARWIN PLEASED THE PROFITEERS ALSO	39
THE POETRY AND PURITY OF MATERIALISM	41
THE VICEROYS OF THE KING OF KINGS	42
POLITICAL OPPORTUNISM IN EXCELSIS	43
THE BETRAYAL OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION	44
CIRCUMSTANTIAL SELECTION IN FINANCE	46
THE HOMEOPATHIC REACTION AGAINST DARWINISM	46
RELIGION AND ROMANCE	48
THE DANGER OF REACTION	49
A TOUCHSTONE FOR DOGMA	50
WHAT TO DO WITH THE LEGENDS	51
A LESSON FROM SCIENCE TO THE CHURCHES	52
THE RELIGIOUS ART OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY	52
THE ARTIST-PROPHETS	54
EVOLUTION IN THE THEATRE	55
MY OWN PART IN THE MATTER	57
BACK TO METHUSELAH.	59
PART I	59
ACT I	59
ACT II	70
PART II	80
PART III	115
PART IV	144
ACT I	144
ACT II	167
ACT III	180
PART V.	185

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