These lectures, etc., some of which are re-prints from journals and 

 some of which I have myself printed in my leisure moments, I now 

 offer to the public in book form, together with a number of figures, 

 maps, etc., illustrative of the subjects treated upon. ' Man Whence 

 and Whither" and " Evolution of the God-idea" are re-printed from 

 The Agnostic ; " Man's Antiquity," " Evolution of Mind," <; Zodiacal 

 Mythology," " Intellectual Progress in Europe " and " The Annals of 

 Tacitus " from the Secular Review ; and "The Special Senses" and 

 " The Bible " from The Agnostic Annual : the remainder of the text, 

 as before stated, has been printed by myself. 



1 must acknowledge with gratitude my indebtedness to Mr. John 

 Bennett, of Prince's Buildings, Dronfield, who has been kind enough 

 to assist me by drawing the zodiacal signs, the Bacchanalian insiguia, 

 the oriental and Egyptian zodiacs, Amen-Ra, Mafuca, Aidanill and the 

 negro head, the two hands, the Fuegans, the Australian (2), African and 

 Eur3pean skulls, and Bootes, Virgo, Cetus, Aquarius and Sagittarius ; 

 and also to Mr. Wm. Gill Hall, of 66 Cecil Road, Sheffield, who has 

 kindly drawn for me the single chimpanzee, the oraiig, the lemur, the 

 face 'of the proboscis monkey, the moor monkey, the hairy couple from 

 Burmah, the genealogy of man, the earth's section, and the ascent of 

 mind. The remainder of the illustrations, with the exception of the 

 two zincogTaphs of the gorillas and chimpanzees (the frontispiece), 

 have been drawn by myself ; and I must trust to the generosity of my 

 readers to overlook the amateur style of my productions, which, it is 

 hoped, will be found sufficiently well done to serve the purpose for 

 which they are intended. However amateur the illustrations may be 

 in appearance, this I can truthfully say, that every sketch in the book 

 is a iaithiUl reproduction of the original. Some of the illustrations, 

 however, have been derived from such gross originals that it has not 

 been considered advisable, for many reasons, to reproduce the figures 

 in their entirety; but wherever part of a figure has been modified by 

 the substitution of a symbolical or othjr device the fact has been noti- 

 fied to the reader at the foot of the illustration. 



In the course of the following lectures the opportunity has been 

 seized to rectify some of the mistakes inadvertently committed in my 

 " Popular Faith Unveiled;" but there are two errors in printing that 

 have not yet been set right, and to which, therefore, I should now like 



