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evolutionary; anarchism in social customs ; its economic 

 principles; involuntary poverty, its causes and cure; 

 injustice of rent, interest and profits; social parasites; 

 anarchism and the ballot; its method that of education 

 and peaceful propagandism ; its ideal that of mutualism 

 between free individuals. 



By Hugh O. Pentecost. 



Evolution and Social Keform : IV. The Scientific 



Method, 321 



The scientific method based on the uniformity of Nature ; 

 the polarity of Individualism and Socialism; the psycho- 

 logical argument; necessity for governmental limitation; 

 the scientific method as distinguished from the theolog- 

 ical, the socialistic and the anarchistic; it advocates the 

 golden mean; it cultivates individual independence; its 

 relation to education and ethical culture. 



By Daniel Greenleaf Thompson. 



Asa Gray : His Life and Work, 339 



His birth and youth; his indebtedness to Amos Eaton; his 

 relations with Dr. John Torrey; his works on botany ; the 

 " North American Flora " ; his contributions to the doc- 

 trine of Evolution; his correspondence with Darwin; his 

 personal characteristics; his genius recognized by other 

 botanists; his great industry; his unobtrusive modesty; 

 causes of his unfinished work. 



By Mrs. Mary Treat. 



Edward Livingston Youmans : The Man and His 



Work, 365 



His birth and ancestry; his education; his early interest in 

 natural science; his blindness; his interest in reforms; his 

 contributions to chemistry; his career as a scientific lec- 

 turer; his acceptance of the doctrine of Evolution; his 

 introduction of Herbert Spencer to America; his estab- 

 lishment of the "International Scientific Series" and the 

 Popular Science Monthly ; his visits to England ; his bi-oad, 

 democratic spirit and unselfish personal character. 



By Pbof. John Fiske. 



Index, 393 



