(he reader is disposed to apply the same term of praise upon his 

 work as he bestowed upon Clifford: " Such scientific exposition as 

 this is as beautiful as poetry." Hartford Post. 



Mr. Fiske is the master of an extremely lucid and attractive 

 literary style, and brings to all questions which he discusses the 

 fruits of a Tery industrious reading and examination of authorities. 

 . . . Whether one agrees with him or not one cannot fail to receive 

 much instruction and definite intellectual impulse from the reading 

 of this volume. . . . While heartily dissenting from many of the 

 views advanced in this book, we commend it to all students who 

 care for the honest judgment of an honest man. Christian Union. 



THE DESTINY OF MAN, viewed in the Light of hu 

 Origin. 16mo, pp. 121, $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 Dawning of Consciousness ; 

 Lengthening of Infancy and Concomitant Increase of 

 Brain Surface ; Change in the Direction of the Working 

 of Natural Selection ; Growing Predominance of the Psy- 

 chical Life ; The Origins of Society and Morality ; Im- 

 provableness of Man; Universal Warfare of Primeval 

 Men ; First checked by the Beginnings of Industrial Civ- 

 ilization ; Methods of Political Development and Elimina- 

 tion of Warfare ; End of the Working of Natural Selec- 

 tion upon Man ; Throwing off the Brute-Inheritance ; 

 The Message of Christianity ; The Question as to a 

 Future Life. 



Mr. Fiske has long held rank as one of the most profound and ex- 

 act of Americas thinkers, and his little monograph will serve to 

 extend that deserved fame among a class of readers who are not or- 

 dinarily interested in the literature of science. Mr. Fiske's book is, 

 in a word, a plea for faith in the immortality of man, based on the 

 doctrine of evolution. With a superb command of all the knowk 

 edge bearing upon the philosophy of Darwinism, to which he has 

 himself been a noteworthy contributor, Mr. Fiske sums up in elo- 

 quent periods the process of evolutionary Creation from the origin 

 of infancy to the beginnings of industrial and political development 

 which have made human society what it is to-day ; and then, look- 

 ing into the future, he foretells how natural selection, working on 

 the lines already marked out, shall attain its perfect work. The 

 whole argument, or rather exposition, is a marvel of condensation. 

 Boston Traveller. 



