This edition features

• illustration

• a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and Index

CONTENTS

Author’s Preface

Translator’s Preface

CHAPTER I The Nature of the Problem

CHAPTER II Our Bodily Frame

CHAPTER III Our Life

CHAPTER IV Our Embryonic Development

CHAPTER V The History of Our Species

CHAPTER VI The Nature of the Soul

CHAPTER VII Psychic Gradations

CHAPTER VIII The Embryology of the Soul

CHAPTER IX The Phylogeny of the Soul

CHAPTER X Consciousness

CHAPTER XI The Immortality of the Soul

CHAPTER XII The Law of Substance

CHAPTER XIII The Evolution of the World

CHAPTER XIV The Unity of Nature

CHAPTER XV God and the World

CHAPTER XVI Knowledge and Belief

CHAPTER XVII Science and Christianity

CHAPTER XVIII Our Monistic Religion

CHAPTER XIX Our Monistic Ethics

CHAPTER XX Solution of the World-Problems

Conclusion

Index

About the Author

"Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1834 – 1919), was a German biologist, naturalist, philosopher, physician, professor and artist who discovered, described and named thousands of new species, mapped a genealogical tree relating all life forms, and coined many terms in biology, including anthropogeny, ecology, phylum, phylogeny, stem cell, and the kingdom Protista. Haeckel promoted and popularized Charles Darwin's work in Germany and developed the controversial recapitulation theory ("ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny") claiming that an individual organism's biological development, or ontogeny, parallels and summarizes its species' evolutionary development, or phylogeny."--Wikipedia