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LAUGEL' S PROBLEMS OF NATURE AND 

 LIFE. 1 



[CONTBIBTJTED TO THE ' EDINBURGH KEVIEW' IN 1871.] 



In this Revieio will be found several extracts from the Papers published 

 in the earlier part of this volume. The Editor has thought it best to retain 

 the duplicate passages rather than to recast or omit the essays in question. 



THE volumes we have placed at the head of this article 

 are connected, not solely as works of the same author, 

 but as containing, in their series and several subjects, a 

 general view of the physical science of our time, in the 

 most advanced stages of its progress. The position of 

 M. Laugel as private secretary to the Due d'Aumale 

 a prince whose learning and many accomplishments, 

 even more than his birth, have given him merited repu- 

 tation in the country of his exile may be recognised 

 as favourable in various ways to a work of this nature. 

 A Frenchman, and intimate with all that is best in the 

 science and literature of France, his quiet residence 

 at Eichmond and familiarity with English institutions 

 have afforded M. Laugel facilities for portraying modern 

 science in its largest aspects, and under those connexions 



1 Science et Philosophic. Par M. AUG. LAUGEL, ancien 61eve de 

 1'Ecole Polytechnique, ex-Ingenieur des Mines. 12mo. Paris : 1863. 



Les Problemes de la Nature. Par AUGUSTE LAUGEL. 12mo. Paris : 

 1864. 



Les Problemes de la Vie. Par AUGUSTE LAUGEL. 12mo. Paris : 

 J867. 



