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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1899. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... chapter ii. the great atheistic petitio principh. Logical Cobwebs to be cleared away.--The Real Question: Is there a Personal Deity?--Anthropomorphism not Chargeable under New Psychology.--The Service rendered by Evolutionists.--Refuted Doctrine of Special Creations, and then said in their Hearts, "There is no God."--Mr. Darwin's Great Labor directed toward Atheism.--Entitled to Credit for proving Evolution.--Natural Selection as the Origin of Species not sustained by Facts.--Artificial Selection produces New Morphological Species, not Physiological.--Examples.--Huxley takes this View.--Proof of Natural Selection lacking.--The Theory clung to by Atheism, because it disguises the Theory that Physical Organism antedates Intelligence.--This is the Stronghold of Atheism.--It is assumed without Proof, which is begging the Question.--Theory of Spontaneous Generation without One Fact to support it.--All Known Facts against it.--Haeckel assumes it confessedly without Facts.--Begs the Question.--Tyndall's Experiments failed to produce Organic Life from Inorganic Matter.--The Crucial Point at the Beginning of Organic Life.--Natural Selection the Theory of Chance.--Lamarck's Theory of Appetency.--Darwin's Contempt for Lamarck because his Theory presupposed Intelligence as the Cause of Organism.--" It implies Necessary Progression."--"A Wretched Book."--Darwin's Private Religious Views.--Lamarck's Theory complementary to Darwin's.--Huxley's Latest Views.--They indorse Lamarck's Theory.--Haeckel vs. Haeckel.--The Scientist vs. the Atheist--The Moneron demonstrates Mind as Antecedent to Physical Organism.--The Monera are Structureless, and yet they are endowed with Mind and Life.--A Wonderful Intelligence.--His Theory itself a Case of" Spontaneous Generation."--The Moneron as...