THE LEWIS LECTURES. 



This book, Evolution, Social and Organic, 



is the first volume of a series of lectures to 

 which we expect to make notable additions in 

 the future. We can at this time definitely 

 promise two volumes, which will be made up 

 from the lectures delivered by Mr. Lewis at the 

 Garrick Theater during the winter and spring 

 of 1908. 



Ten Blind Leaders of the Blind. This will 

 in all probability be the second volume of the 

 Lewis Lectures, and we expect to publish it in 

 May or June. It will consist of critical studies 

 of the theories of such reformers, philosophers 

 and moralists as Benjamin Kidd, Henry 

 George, Dr. Schaeffle, Thomas Carlyle, Au- 

 guste Comte and Immanuel Kant. 



It must not be imagined that Mr. Lewis in 

 these lectures is merely attempting to refute 

 these thinkers, nor that he would disparage the 

 service that each in his time has rendered. On 

 the contrary his aim is to give the reader as 

 clear a comprehension as possible of what each 

 of these men has achieved. And he further- 

 more shows how the outlook of each was 

 limited by the economic environment from 

 which flowed the mental atmosphere in which 



