Sinopsis

PREFACE The discourse on "Evolution and Ethics," re- printed in the first half of the present volume, was delivered before the University of Oxford, as the second of the annual lectures founded by Mr. Romanes : whose name I may not write without deploring the untimely death, in the flower of his age, of a friend endeared to me, as to so many others, by his kindly nature ; and justly valued by all his colleagues for his powers of investigation and his zeal for the advancement of knowledge. I well , when Mr. Romanes' early work came into my hands, as one of the secretaries of the Royal Society, how much I rejoiced in the accession to the ranks of the Uttle army of workers in science of a recruit so well qualified to take a high place among us.