CONTENTS 



i 



SCIENTIFIC PAPERS (1869-1873) 



CHAP. PAGE 



I. THEORY OF GEOMETRICAL REASONING (February i, 



1869) . . 3 



II. HEGEL AND THE METAPHYSICS OF THE FLUXIONAL 



CALCULUS (May 17, 1869) . . . .13 



III. ON THE FLOW OF ELECTRICITY IN CONDUCTING SUR 



FACES (February 21, 1870) . . . 44 



IV. NOTE ON PROFESSOR BAIN S THEORY OF EUCLID I. 4 



(June 6, 1870) . . . . .67 



V. DR. STIRLING, HEGEL, AND THE MATHEMATICIANS 



(April 1873) ... .71 



II 

 EARLY THEOLOGICAL ESSAYS (1868-1870) 



I. PROPHECY AND PERSONALITY : A FRAGMENT (January 



1868) ... . ... . . 97 



II. CHRISTIANITY AND THE SUPERNATURAL (Jan. 1869) . 109 



III. THE WORK OF A THEOLOGICAL SOCIETY (Nov. 1869) 137 



IV. THE QUESTION OF PROPHECY IN THE CRITICAL SCHOOLS 



OF THE CONTINENT (April 1870) . . . 163 



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