The vigor, the earnestness, the honesty, and the freedom from cant and subtlety 

 in his writing are exceedingly refreshing. He is a scholar, a critic, and a thinker 

 of the first order. Christian Register. 



The book has a unity and charm in the clearness of the thought and the beauty 

 of such a style as was perhaps never before brought to the illustration of the 

 topics with which Mr. Fiske habitually deals. There is something better still in 

 the admirable spirit of his writing ; it is of all writing of its sort, probably, the 

 most humane. . . . He has already achieved a place as wholly his own as it is em 

 inent. Atlantic Monthly. 



EXCURSIONS OF AN EVOLUTIONIST. 



12mo, gilt top, $2.00. 



CONTENTS : Europe before the Arrival of Man ; The Arrival oi 

 Man in Europe ; Our Aryan Forefathers ; What we learn from Old 

 Aryan Words ; Was there a Primeval Mother-Tongue ? Sociology 

 and Hero- Worship ; Heroes of Industry ; The Causes of Persecution ; 

 The Origins of Protestantism ; The True Lesson of Protestantism ; 

 Evolution and Religion ; The Meaning of Infancy ; A Universe of 

 Mind-Stuff; InMemoriam: Charles Darwin. 



Among our thoughtful essayists there are none more brilliant than Mr. John 

 Fiske. His pure style suits his clear thought. He does not write unless he has 

 something to say ; and when he does write he shows not only that he has thor 

 oughly acquainted himself with the subject, but that he has to a rare degree the 

 art of so massing his matter as to bring out the true value of the leading points in 

 artistic relief. It is this perspective which makes his work such agreeable reading 

 even on abtruse subjects, and has enabled him to play the same part in populariz 

 ing Spencer in this country that Littre performed for Comte in France, and Dumont 

 for Bentham in England. The same qualities appear to good advantage in his 

 new volume, which contains his later essays on his favorite subject of evolution. 

 . . . They are well worth reperusal. The Nation (New York). 



These essays are all full of thought and worthy of preservation, while several of 

 them are entitled to rank among the very best essays of American writers. For 

 depth of thought, scholarship, literary taste, critical ability, and the power of 

 clear and vigorous exposition combined, Mr. Fiske has no equal in this country 

 and but few equals among European writers. Index (Boston). 



THE DESTINY OF MAN, 



Viewed in the Light of his Origin. IGmo, gilt top, $1.00. 

 CONTENTS : Man s Place in Nature as affected by the Copernican 

 Theory ; As affected by Darwinism ; On the Earth there will never 

 be a Higher Creature than Man ; The Origin of Infancy ; The Dawn 

 ing of Consciousness ; Lengthening of Infancy and Concomitant In 

 crease of Brain Surface ; Change in the Direction of the Working of 

 Natural Selection; Growing Predominance of the Psychical Life; 

 The Origins of Society and Morality ; Improveableness of Man ; Uni 

 versal Warfare of Primeval Men ; First checked by the Beginnings 

 of Industrial Civilization; Methods of Political Development and 

 Elimination of Warfare ; End of the Working of Natural Selection 

 upon Man; Throwing off the Brute-Inheritance; The Message of 

 Christianity ; The Question as to a Future Life. 



