CONTENTS

Prologue Page [1]
I
THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF PALÆONTOLOGY
An Address delivered at the York Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1881 [55]
II
THE INTERPRETERS OF GENESIS AND THE INTERPRETERS OF NATURE
Nineteenth Century, December 1885 [75]
III
MR GLADSTONE AND GENESIS
Nineteenth Century, February 1886 [98]
Note on the proper sense of the "Mosaic" narrative of the Creation [126]
IV
THE EVOLUTION OF THEOLOGY: AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL STUDY
Nineteenth Century, March and April 1886 [131]
V
SCIENCE AND MORALS
Fortnightly Review, November 1886 [209]
VI
SCIENTIFIC AND PSEUDO-SCIENTIFIC REALISM
Nineteenth Century, February 1887 [237]
VII
SCIENCE AND PSEUDO-SCIENCE
Nineteenth Century, April 1887 [265]
VIII
AN EPISCOPAL TRILOGY
Nineteenth Century, November 1887 [298]
IX
AGNOSTICISM
Nineteenth Century, February 1889 [329]
X
THE VALUE OF WITNESS TO THE MIRACULOUS
Nineteenth Century, March 1889 [378]
XI
AGNOSTICISM: A REJOINDER
Nineteenth Century, April 1889 [407]
XII
AGNOSTICISM AND CHRISTIANITY
Nineteenth Century, June 1889 [449]
XIII
THE LIGHTS OF THE CHURCH AND THE LIGHT OF SCIENCE
Nineteenth Century, July 1890 [501]
XIV
THE KEEPERS OF THE HERD OF SWINE
Nineteenth Century, December 1890 [535]
XV
ILLUSTRATIONS OF MR. GLADSTONE'S CONTROVERSIAL METHODS
Nineteenth Century, March 1891 [559]
XVI
HASISADRA'S ADVENTURE
Nineteenth Century, June 1891 [583]

I am indebted to the Editors of the Nineteenth Century and of the Fortnightly Review for permission to reprint such of the following Essays as have appeared in the pages of those periodicals: and so large a proportion of the papers has been published in the Nineteenth Century that my acknowledgments are especially due to Mr. Knowles.

T. H. H.

May 4, 1892.


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