ADVERTISEMENT. 



THE FOLLOWING PAGES comprise two Lectures 

 originally delivered to audiences of Ladies and 

 Gentlemen in the Botanical Theatre of University 

 College, London : the first on the evening of 

 October 29, 1874, and the second on the evening 

 of October 12, 1875. 



I now publish them, in the hope that they may 

 serve as a means of counteracting efforts made 

 throughout the country by half-informed persons to 

 propagate the Doctrine of Evolution. Those efforts, 

 it may be observed, are manifested under two 

 different characters. Thus, while the more logical of 

 the Propagandists referred to do not shrink from 

 the conclusions which necessarily flow from the 

 doctrine, a weak-minded class commit the absurdity 

 of trying to reconcile the doctrine with Belief in a 

 personal FIRST CAUSE. 



Perhaps, the explanations herein offered will 

 help to disabuse the minds of some, at least, of those 



