CONTENTS. 



i. 



PAOK 



ON THE ADVISABLENESS OP IMPROVING NATURAL KNOWLEDGE. (A 

 Lay Sermon delivered in St. Martin s Hall, on the evening of 

 Sunday, the 7th of January, 1866, and subsequently published in 

 the Fortnightly Review) 1 



II. 

 EMANCIPATION BLACK AND WHITE. (The Reader, May 20th, 1865) 17 



III. 



A LIBERAL EDUCATION : AND WHERE TO FIND IT. (An Address 

 to the South London Working Men s College, delivered on the 

 4th of January, 1868, and subsequently published in Afacmillan it 

 Magazine) 24 



IV. 



SCIENTIFIC EDUCATION : NOTES OF AN AFTER-DINNER SPEECH. (De 

 livered before the Liverpool Philoraathic Society in April, 1869, 

 and subsequently published in Macmilkm s Magazine) 47 



V. 



ON THE EDUCATIONAL VALUE OF THE NATURAL HISTORY SCIENCES. 

 (An Address delivered at St. Martin s Hall, on the 22nd July, 

 1854, and published as a pamphlet in that year) 62 



