TABLE OF CONTENTS PART I CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION Dr. Thomson on the necessary Laws of human thought and the discovery of Truth and Reality PAGE 1 CHAPTER II THE NEED FOR A FIRST CAUSE OR PRIUS The difference between Evolution by Emergence and Creative 5 CHAPTER III OUR MATERIALS Section I: Ourselves Section II: Our Environment. Section I, Ourselves-Man as we know him; his faculties of three kinds: (a) Conative and Acquisitive Faculties; (b) Cognitive or Knowledge and Mental Faculties; (c) Moral and Spiritual Faculties Inferences and conclusions. Section II, Our Environment-Definition of the term— Points of correspondence between ourselves and our Environment-Common origin-Adaptation, ResponseNature and Consciousness-The Universe-The Living Body of the Living God-Plato-Dr. Jacks on A Living Universe will be found useful and suggestive 8 Consciousness compared to a ladder-What does it mean?- Its implications-The constant accompaniment and ex- PAGE The process of Creative Evolution not played out-Via hominis CHAPTER III The Thesis to be maintained-The Bible record of Creation PAGE 39 CHAPTER IV Introduction-The Claims and Teaching of Jesus considered CHAPTER V Subjects" The Kingdom of Heaven, Eternal Life, and the Goal of Humanity"-Introductory Remarks-The Evangelium fulfilled-Two lessons taught by Creative Evolution in Theory and Practice: (1) How the Human Race has been raised through the successive steps of an ever-increasing consciousness to a high degree of physical, moral and spiritual development; (2) How by the Incarnation and work of Christ Jesus mankind has been brought within sight of the Goal of Humanity-The Promises of Jesus, and the condition of their attainment-My closing wish and prayer ADDENDUM On the doctrine of the Incarnation as held and taught by the Catholic Church of Christ in the Athanasian Creed INDEX 43 94 99 101 THROUGH CREATIVE EVOLUTION TO INCARNATION AND THE GOAL OF HUMANITY PART I THE THEORY OF CREATIVE EVOLUTION CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION Dr. Thomson on the necessary Laws of human thought and the discovery of Truth and Reality. MAN differs from the rest of the animal world in that he thinks. And what is, or ought to be, the end and object of thinking? Surely it is the discovery and attainment of Truth and Reality. The late Dr. Thomson, Archbishop of York, in his treatise on Pure and Applied Logic, has given us an outline of the necessary laws of thought. He tells us, that applied logic teaches the application of the forms of thinking to those objects about which men do think. These objects arrange themselves under three great divisions or categories: Man, the Universe, and Absolute Being. When the view we take of objects is substantially correct; when our thoughts correspond with facts, we are said to be in possession |