Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFATORY NOTE TO SECOND EDITION
- PREFACE
- Contents
- CHAPTER I THE STATE OF THE QUESTION
- CHAPTER II THE ORGANIC HISTORY
- CHAPTER III POWERS MODIFYING EVOLUTION
- CHAPTER IV BENEFICENCE IN THE METHOD OF EVOLUTION
- CHAPTER V FINAL CAUSE IN EVOLUTION
- CHAPTER VI GEOLOGY AND SCRIPTURE
- CHAPTER VII THE AGE OF MAN
CHAPTER VII - THE AGE OF MAN
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2012
- Frontmatter
- PREFATORY NOTE TO SECOND EDITION
- PREFACE
- Contents
- CHAPTER I THE STATE OF THE QUESTION
- CHAPTER II THE ORGANIC HISTORY
- CHAPTER III POWERS MODIFYING EVOLUTION
- CHAPTER IV BENEFICENCE IN THE METHOD OF EVOLUTION
- CHAPTER V FINAL CAUSE IN EVOLUTION
- CHAPTER VI GEOLOGY AND SCRIPTURE
- CHAPTER VII THE AGE OF MAN
Summary
FIRST EPOCH, THAT OF STRUGGLE.
The Coming Time.—In all the geological ages we find in any one age the anticipation of the following. This may also be the case with the age in which we now live, the Age of Man. We see everywhere preparations made for further progress: seeds sown which have not yet sprung up; embryos not yet developed; life which has not yet grown to maturity. In particular we find that in this Age of Man, man has not yet completed his work.
In an age there is often more than one Epoch; thus, we have the Lower and Upper Silurian; in the Mesozoic, the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous. So in this Human Age we find two very marked Epochs, that of labor and that of rest, that of battle and of victory. The evening and the morning constitute the seventh as they do the other days.
Man's Descent.—We have to answer the question so often put: Did man come into the world by ordinary generation? Of course, from the lower animals? To this I answer that at first sight there is something special in the forthcoming of man, and this conviction is deepened the deeper we explore his nature, his intellectual, moral, and spiritual faculties, his reason, his conscience, his free-will, which raise him far above the brutes. Your one-eyed evolutionists see only one side, and not the whole solid truth.
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- The Religious Aspect of Evolution , pp. 101 - 119Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009