VII. Change in the Direction of the Working of Natural Selection.
VIII. Growing Predominance of the Psychical Life.
IX. The Origins of Society and of Morality.
X. Improvableness of Man.
XI. Universal Warfare of Primeval Men.
XII. First checked by the Beginnings of Industrial Civilisation.
XIII. Methods of Political Development, and Elimination of Warfare.
XIV. End of the Working of Natural Selection upon Man. Throwing off
the Brute-Inheritance.
XV. The Message of Christianity.
XVI. The Question as to a Future Life.




THE DESTINY OF MAN.




I.

Man's Place in Nature, as affected by the Copernican Theory.


When we study the Divine Comedy of Dante--that wonderful book wherein
all the knowledge and speculation, all the sorrows and yearnings, of the
far-off Middle Ages are enshrined in the glory of imperishable verse--we
are brought face to face with a theory of the world and with ways of
reasoning about the facts of nature which seem strange to us to-day, but