A CENTURY OF SCIENCE

And Other Essays

BY

JOHN FISKE

Out of the shadows of night
The world rolls into light:
It is daybreak everywhere.
Longfellow.

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
1899
COPYRIGHT, 1899, BY JOHN FISKE
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED


DEDICATORY EPISTLE TO THOMAS SERGEANT PERRY,