First Edition printed 1881
Reprinted 1882, 1888.
PREFACE.
The Addresses, Lectures, and Essays gathered together in this volume have appeared at intervals during the past seven years, and I can give no better reason for republishing them in their present form, than the fact that three earlier collections of a similar nature have been received with favour, and, indeed, have not yet ceased to be in request.
I beg leave to offer my best thanks to the Editors and Publishers of the various publications in which these pieces have appeared, for their kindly accorded permission to reprint them.
London. October 1881.
CONTENTS.
| I. SCIENCE AND CULTURE. |
| An Address delivered at the Opening of Sir Josiah Mason’s Science College, at Birmingham, on the 1st of October 1880Pages1 to 23Pages[1] to 23 |
| II. UNIVERSITIES: ACTUAL AND IDEAL. |
| The Inaugural Address of the Lord Rector of the University of Aberdeen, 27th February 1874.—Contemporary Review, 1874Pages1 to 23[24] to 64 |
| III. TECHNICAL EDUCATION. |
| An Address delivered to the Working Men’s Club and Institute, 1st December 1877.—Nineteenth Century, 1878Pages1 to 23[65] to 85 |
| IV. ELEMENTARY INSTRUCTION IN PHYSIOLOGY. |
| Read at the Meeting of the Domestic Economy Congress at Birmingham, 1877Pages1 to 23[86] to 93 [viii] |
| V. JOSEPH PRIESTLEY. |
| An Address delivered on the occasion of the Presentation of a Statue of Priestley to the Town of Birmingham, on the 1st of August 1874.—Macmillan’s Magazine, 1874Pages1 to 23[94] to 127 |
| VI. ON THE METHOD OF ZADIG. |
| A Lecture delivered at the Working Men’s College, Great Ormond Street, 1880.—Nineteenth Century, 1880Pages1 to 23[128] to 148 |
| VII. ON THE BORDER TERRITORY BETWEEN THE ANIMAL AND THE VEGETABLE KINGDOMS. |
| An Evening Lecture at the Royal Institution, Friday, January 28, 1876.—Macmillan’s Magazine, 1874Pages1 to 23[149] to 179 |
| VIII. ON CERTAIN ERRORS RESPECTING THE STRUCTURE OF THE HEART ATTRIBUTED TO ARISTOTLE. |
| Nature, 6th November 1879Pages1 to 23[180] to 198 |
| IX. ON THE HYPOTHESIS THAT ANIMALS ARE AUTOMATA, AND ITS HISTORY. |
| An Address delivered at the Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, at Belfast, 1874.—Fortnightly Review, 1874Pages1 to 23[199] to 245 [ix] |
| X. ON SENSATION AND THE UNITY OF STRUCTURE OF THE SENSIFEROUS ORGANS. |
| An Evening Lecture at the Royal Institution, Friday, March 7, 1879.—Nineteenth Century, 1879Pages1 to 23[246] to 273 |
| XI. EVOLUTION IN BIOLOGY. |
| The Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition, vol. viii. 1878Pages1 to 23[274] to 309 |
| XII. THE COMING OF AGE OF “THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES.” |
| An evening Lecture at the Royal Institution, Friday, 9th April 1880.—Nature, 1880Pages1 to 23[310] to 324 |
| XIII. THE CONNECTION OF THE BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES WITH MEDICINE. |
| An Address delivered at the Meeting of the International Medical Congress in London, 9th August 1881Pages1 to 23[325] to 349 |