Excerpt from Studies in Religion: Being the Destiny of Man; The Idea of God; Through Nature to God; Life Everlasting As the essay contains an epitome of my own original contributions to the doctrine of evo lution, I have added at the end a short list of references to other works of mine, where the points here briefly mentioned are more fully argued and illustrated.1 The views regarding the progress of human society, and the climi nation of warfare, are set forth at greater length in a little book now in the press, and soon to appear, entitled American Political Ideas. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.