OUTLINES OF COSMIC PHILOSOPHY
Based on the Doctrine of Evolution, with Criticisms on the Positive Philosophy. In two volumes. 8vo, $6.00.
“You must allow me to thank you for the very great interest with which I have at last slowly read the whole of your work…. I never in my life read so lucid an expositor (and therefore thinker) as you are; and I think that I understand nearly the whole, though perhaps less clearly about cosmic theism and causation than other parts. It is hopeless to attempt out of so much to specify what has interested me most, and probably you would not care to hear. It pleased me to find that here and there I had arrived, from my own crude thoughts, at some of the same conclusions with you, though I could seldom or never have given my reasons for such conclusions.”—CHARLES DARWIN.
This work of Mr. Fiske’s may be not unfairly designated the most important contribution yet made by America to philosophical literature.—The Academy (London).
DARWINISM, AND OTHER ESSAYS.
If ever there was a spirit thoroughly invigorated by the “joy of right understanding” it is that of the author of these pieces. Even the reader catches something of his intellectual buoyancy, and is thus carried almost lightly through discussions which would be hard and dry in the hands of a less animated writer…. No less confident and serene than his acceptance of the utmost logical results of recent scientific discovery is Mr. Fiske’s assurance that the foundations of spiritual truths, so called, cannot possibly be shaken thereby.—The Atlantic Monthly (Boston).
THE UNSEEN WORLD,
And Other Essays. 12mo, $2.00.
To each study the writer seems to have brought, besides an excellent quality of discriminating judgment, full and fresh special knowledge, that enables him to supply much information on the subject, whatever it may be, that is not to be found in the volume he is noticing. To the knowledge, analytical power, and faculty of clear statement, that appear in all these papers, Mr. Fiske adds a just independence of thought that conciliates respectful consideration of his views, even when they are most at variance with the commonly accepted ones.—Boston Advertiser.
EXCURSIONS OF AN EVOLUTIONIST.