CONTENTS
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I. A Century of Science [1]
II. The Doctrine of Evolution: its Scope and Purport [39]
III. Edward Livingston Youmans [64]
IV. The Part played by Infancy in the Evolution of Man [100]
V. The Origins of Liberal Thought in America [122]
VI. Sir Harry Vane [154]
VII. The Arbitration Treaty [166]
VIII. Francis Parkman [194]
IX. Edward Augustus Freeman [265]
X. Cambridge as Village and City [286]
XI. A Harvest of Irish Folk-Lore [319]
XII. Guessing at Half and Multiplying by Two [333]
XIII. Forty Years of Bacon-Shakespeare Folly [350]
XIV. Some Cranks and their Crotchets [405]
Note [461]
Index [467]