Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-11-20
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4 volume With this title has just been
published containing the lectures and dis
cussions before the Brooklyn Ethical Asso-
citation. being . companion volume to that
entitled "Evoiuton" which YES issued by
the same pnblisher abouss year ago. This
volume comprises seventeen essays BY
different hands on such subjects - /; Scope
and Principles Of the Evolution Philoso-
ply; Primitive Man; Growth Of the Mar
rage Relation Evolution Of the State, Of
Laws, Of the Medical Sciences, Of Arms
and Armor, Of the Mechanic Arts.
Of the Wages System; Education ~ fac.
tor 10 civilization; Evolution and Social
Reform: /. the theological method. 2. the
socialisfic method, 3, the Anarchistic
method, 4, the scientific method; Asa Gray,
his life and work; Edward Livingston
Youmans. his life and work. Among the
writer's Of these essays or lectures are Dr..
Lewis @. Jones, Rev. John w. Chadwick,
Hugh o. Pentecost, Mrs. Mary Treat and
Prof. John Fiske. There are many views
and opinions in the work to which we cannot
assent, bu: from q somewhat careful exam
inatioa Of the several lectures are inclined
to place much higher value upon it than
was possessed by the previous volume Of
the series to which we have just alluded
The memorial sketches Of the late Prof.
Gray, and the late Prof. Youmans are
amsng the most valuable contents Of the
volume. Boston: James II. West, 1876
Summer Street; Post 8vo., PIP, 1903; price
81. postage paid.
The great value of the American Nat
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communication between scientific invesii-
gators and societies. and permanent
repository for the early and regular publ
cation of the results OF scientific inves;iga-
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The Naturalist 10 now near the close of Its
twenty fourth volume, and the interest and
value of Its pages has constantly grown
throughout the course of its existence.
1t 10 ably edited by Prof. E. d.
Cope and Prof. J. s. Kingsley, embraces
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every branch and division of semitic in
quiry The work 10 well printed and
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The Christmas (December) number of
FRANK Leslie TOpuidr Mohtniy IL uouuu
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"Dr. Talmsge in the Holy Land" describ-
ing the Palestine Of today as seen by the
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"One Christmas in Egypt" by Colonel ].
Milliken. and "Chins painting" BY Lily
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