MAN- WHENCE AND WHITHER? BY RICHARD B. WESTBROOK, D.D., LL.B., "A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon “Every undertaking is involved în its faults, as the fire in its HINDU BIBLE CHU HARTFOR No...E PHILADELPHIA: J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO. PREFACE. THE present is an age of intense mental curiosity. There is an increasing disposition to inquire into the reason of things. Men are not content with superficial appearances; they want to examine the foundations. Man is a fact in the universe. What is his nature, his constitution, and personality? Where did he come from? Where is he going? Books relating to these subjects are generally large and expensive, and, with few exceptions, are too professional; they abound with technicalties. Many cannot afford to purchase them. Few have the leisure and patience to plod through them. The average reader cannot comprehend them. This plain, cheap little book is intended for busy, active people, who have but little time to read and no taste for metaphysics. High-sounding words have been avoided or explained. Evolution, as defined by one of its most learned champions, is "a change from an indefinite and incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity through continuous differentiations and integrations." No real conception is formed by the ordi |