THE BROOKLYN ETHICAL ASSOCIATION. 6 7 $ 



Dr. Rossiter W. Raymond, Mr. C. Staniland Wake,* Prof. George 

 Gunton, Rev. John C. Kimball,* Prof. Thomas Davidson ; Dr. E. 

 Benjamin Andrews, President of Brown University ; Dr. Charles 

 De Garmo, President of Swarthmore College ; Dr. L. A. W. 

 Alleman, Dr. Francis Ellingwood Abbott, Prof. Joseph Henry 

 Allen, Mr. Edwin D. Mead, Mr. Arthur E. Kennelly, Mr. Thaddeus 

 B. Wakeman, Rev. Samuel J. Barrows, Mr. Daniel S. Remsen, 

 Hon. Roswell G. Horr, Hon. Edward M. Shepard, Hon. William 

 J. Coombs, Prof. Amos G. Warner,* Dr. T. D. Crothers, Rev. 

 Nicholas P. Gilman, Rev. E. P. Powell,* Mr. J. W. Sullivan, 

 Miss Eliza A. Youmans,* and Mrs. Mary Treat. 



The association has been fortunate, not only in the character 

 and ability of its lecturers, but also in its publishers. The two 

 volumes on Evolution and Sociology, as well as The Evolutionist, 

 which for the past year has constituted a modest bimonthly organ 

 of the association, were published by James H. West, of Boston, 

 whose single-hearted devotion to the work has not been excelled 

 by that of the active members of the association. Since 1890 the 

 lectures have been published by Messrs. D. Appleton & Company, 

 of New York — the publishers of the works of Spencer, Huxley, 

 Darwin, and other eminent scientific teachers of our time. They 

 have met with cordial recognition from leading reviewers and 

 scientific teachers, and are having a steady and constantly in- 

 creasing sale. The aim of the association has been to combine a 

 popular mode of presentation with scientific accuracy of treat- 

 ment; and this end has been fairly achieved. Each lecture is 

 submitted to criticism by competent invited speakers when deliv- 

 ered, so that inaccuracies, if they exist, are discovered and cor- 

 rected, and both sides of all disputed topics are fairly presented. 

 A full abstract of the discussion is published with the lectures, 

 which greatly adds to their value in many instances for all who 

 desire scientific accuracy and have faith that the truth is best 

 discovered by the free use of the enlightened reason. 



The membership of the Brooklyn Ethical Association, which 

 has gradually grown from year to year with no backward steps, 

 now includes between two and three hundred ladies and gentle- 

 men, of whom more than two thirds are active members, resident 

 in Brooklyn and New York. The remainder includes a number 

 of non-resident associate members, whose homes are in different 

 portions of the United States and England, and fifty-five corre- 

 sponding members, comprising some of the best-known names of 

 those eminent in science and literature the world over. Among 

 those who have accepted membership in the association and ex- 

 pressed their cordial sympathy with its work are Mr. Herbert 



* Corresponding members. 



