Title: Essays and criticism,
Authors: Mivart, St. George Jackson, 1827-1900.
Publisher: J. R. Osgood,
Year: 1892
Contents: i. Jacobinism. - Sorel's 'Europe and the French Revolution.' - Memoirs of a royalist [1e comte de Falloux]. - State organisation. - Notes on Spain. - Monumenta ritualia ecclesiae anglicanae; by William Maskell. - A Devonshire relic [the abbey of Buckfast]. - A visit to some Austrian monasteries. - The greyfriars. - National education. - The meaning of life. - The government of life. - Laughter. - Why tastes differ. - The feelings and the intellect; or, The psychology of the emotions.--ii. The descent of man; by Charles Darwin. - Evolution and its consequences; a reply to Prof. Huxley. - Specific genesis. - Herbert Spencer. - Prehistoric and savage man. - Address to the British Association, 1879 - Force, energy, and will. - Likenesses; or, Philosophical anatomy. - Hermann Lotze and the mechanical philosophy. - A limit to evolution. - Organic nature's riddle. - What are animals and plants? - Weismann's theories: the beginning and end of life. - Eimer on growth and inheritance.