THE

PHILOSOPHY OF EVOLUTION

TOGETHER WITH A PRELIMINARY ESSAY ON

THE METAPHYSICAL BASIS OF SCIENCE.


TWO PAPERS

Read before The Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters at the Annual
Meetings of February, 1873 and February, 1874.

BY

STEPHEN H. CARPENTER, LL. D.,

Professor of Logic, etc., in the University of Wisconsin, and President of the
Department of Speculative Philosophy in the Wisconsin
Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters.