BOSTON MONDAY LECTURES. 



VI. Final Permanence of Moral Character. 



VII. Can a Perfect Being permit Evil ? 



VIII. The Religion required by the Nature of Things. 



IX. Theodore Parker on Communion with God as Personal 



X. The Trinity and Tritheism. 



XI. FRA 3MENTARINESS OF OUTLOOK UPON THE DlVINE NATUKB. 



PRELUDES. 



I. The Children of the Perishing Poor. 



II. The Failure of Strauss's Mythical Theory. 



IH. Chalmers's Remedy for the Evils of Cities. 



IV. Mexicanized Politics. 



V. Yale, Harvard, and Boston. 



VI. The Right Direction of the Religiously Irresolute. 



VII. Religious Conversation. 



VIII. George Whitefleld in Boston. 



IX. Circe's Cup in Cities. 



X. Civil-Service Reform. 



XI. Plymouth Rock as the Corner-Stone of a Factory. 



CRITICAL ESTIMATES (AMERICAN). 



Rev. Prof. A. P. Peabody of Barnard University, in The Independent. 



Joseph Cook is a phenomenon to he accounted for. No other 

 American orator has done what he has done, or any thine; like it, 

 and, prior to the experiment, no voice would have been bold enough 

 to predict its success. 



We reviewed Mr. Cook's " Lectures on Biology " with unqualified 

 praise. In the present volume we find tokens of the same genius, 

 the same intensity of feeling, the same lightning flashes of impas- 

 sioned eloquence, the same viselike hold on the rapt attention and 

 absorbing interest of his hearers and readers. We are sure that we 

 are unbiassed by the change of subject; for, though we dissent from 

 some of the dogmas which the author recognizes in passing, there 

 is hardly one of his consecutive trains of thought in which we are 

 not in harmony with him, or one of his skirmishes in wlrich our 

 sympathies are not wholly on his side. 



Rev. Dr. Thomas Hill, Ex-President of LTarvard University, in the Christian 



Register. 



The attempt of sundry critics to depreciate Mr. Cook's science, 

 because he is a minister, is very ill judged. These Lectures are 

 crowded so full of knowledge, of thought, of argument, illumined 

 with such passages of eloquence and power, spiced so frequently 

 with deep-cutting though good-natured irony, that I could make no 

 abstract from them, without utterly mutilating them. 



The Princeton Review. 



Mr. Cook has already become famous; and these Lectures arc 

 among the chief works that have, and we may say justly, made him 

 60. Then celebrity is due partly to the place and circumstances of 



