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- E-text prepared by Turgut Dincer, John Campbell, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (https://archive.org)
- THE KINGDOM OF MAN
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- PREFACE
- ERRATUM.
- CHAPTER I NATURE’S INSURGENT SON
- 1. The Outlook.
- 2. The word ‘Nature.’
- 3. Nature-searchers.
- 4. The Doctrine of Evolution.
- 5. Unwarranted inferences from the Evolution of Man.
- 6. Nature’s Mode of Producing Organic Forms.
- 7. The Limited Variety of Nature’s Products.
- 8. The Emergence of Man.
- 9. The Enlarged Brain.
- 10. The Progress of Man.
- 11. The Attainment by Man of the Knowledge of his Relations to Nature.
- 12. The Regnum Hominis.
- 13. Man’s Destiny.
- 14. Man and Disease.
- 15. The Increase of Human Population.
- 16. An Untouched Source of Energy.
- 17. Speculations as to the Martians.
- 18. The Investigation of the Human Mind.
- 19. Man’s Delay: its Cause and Remedy.
- 20. The Influence of Oxford.
- APPENDIX.
- CHAPTER II THE ADVANCE OF SCIENCE, 1881–1906
- 1. The Increase of Knowledge in the Several Branches of Science.
- 2. The Advancement of Science as Measured by the Support given to it by Public Funds, and the Respect Accorded to Scientific Work by the British Government and the Community at Large.
- CHAPTER III. NATURE’S REVENGES: THE SLEEPING SICKNESS.
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