IMPORTANT BOOKS 



BY 



JOHN FISKE. 



OUTLINES OF COSMIC PHILOSOPHY. 



Based on the Doctrine of Evolution. With Criticisms on the Positive 

 Philosophy. In two volumes, 8vo, gilt top, $6.00. 



You must allow me to thank you for the very great interest with which I have 

 at last slowly read the whole of your \> ork. ... I never in my life read so lucid 

 an expositor (and therefore thinker) as you are; and I think that 1 understand 

 nearly the whole, though perhaps less clearly about cosmic theism and causation 

 than other parts. It is hopeless to attempt out of so much to specify what has in- 

 terested me most, and probably you would not care to hear. It pleased me to find 

 that here and there I had arrived, from my own crude thoughts, at some of the 

 Bame conclusions with you, though I could seldom or never have given my reasons 

 for such conclusions. — Charles Darwin. 



This work of Mr. Fiske's may not be unfairly designated the most important 

 contribution yet made by America to philo,sophical literature. . . . His theory of 

 the influence of prolonged infancy upon social development (Part II., chap, xxii.) 

 entitles Mr. Fiske's work to be considered a distinctly important contribution -to 

 the theory of the origin of species, and of the origin of man in particular. — 

 Academy (London). 



His most important suggestion, that of the influence of the long period of feeble 

 adolescence upon man's social development, is, we think, a permanent contribu- 

 tion to the development theory. — Nation (New York). 



He recognizes Mr. Spencer as his teacher and guide ; but he has moulded the 

 doctrines of his master into a popular form, surrounded them with fresh and vivid 

 illustrations, pointed out their bearing upon groat practical questions of the day, 

 and amply supplied the reader with materials for forming an intelligent judgment 

 with respect to their merits. Mr. Fiske is himself a thinker of rare acuteness and 

 depth ; his affluent store of knowledge is exhibited on every page ; and his mas- 

 tery of expression is equal to his subtlety of speculation. — George IIipley, in 

 Tribune (New York). 



Mr. Fiske's work ... is the first important contribution made by America to 

 the evolution philosophy, . . . and is well worth the study of all who wish to see 

 at once the entire scope and purport of the scientific dogmatism of the day. — iSoi- 

 urday Review (London). 



DARWINISM AND OTHER ESSAYS. 



New Edition, enlarged. 12mo, gilt top, $2.00. 



Contents: Darwinism Verified; Mr. Mivart on Darwinism; Dr. 

 Bateman on Dai-winism ; Dr. Biiclincr on Darwinism ; A Crumb for 

 the "Modern Symposium;" Chauncey Wright; What is Inspira- 

 tion? Modem Witchcraft ; Comte's Po.siiive Philosophy : Mr. Buckle's 

 Fallacies ; Postscript on Mr. Buckle ; The Races of the Danube; Lib- 

 eral Education ; University Reform ; A Librarian's Work. 



