CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER 



I. — Birth and Childhood .... 

 II. — Youth and Education .... 



III. — Years of Blindness 



IV. — Years of Blindness {continued). — The Class 



Chemistry 



V. — The Scientific Lecturer .... 



VI. — Household Science 



VII. — First Acquaintance with Herbert Spencer 

 VIII. — Marriage and First Visit to England 

 IX. — The Apostle of Evolution 

 X. — Second and Third Visits to England . 

 XI. — Popular Education, and other Matters 



XII. — Appletons' Journal 



XIII.— The International Scientific Series . 

 XIV. — The Popular Science Monthly 



XV. — Various Affairs 



XVI. — Winter in the Riviera .... 

 XVIL— Last Years 



Book of 



PAGE 



I 



35 



56 



71 

 92 



102 

 116 

 141 

 185 

 221 



255 

 266 



295 

 317 

 345 

 366 



Select Writings. 



I. — Mental Discipline in Education 399 



II. — On the Scientific Study of Human Nature . .451 



III. — What we mean by Science 4S6 



IV. — The Religious Work of Science 49' 



v.— PIerbert Spencer and the Doctrine of Evolution . 502 



