CONTENTS 



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I. A CENTURY OF SCIENCE 1 



II. THE DOCTRINE OF EVOLUTION: ITS SCOPE AND 



PURPORT 39 



III. EDWARD LIVINGSTON YOUMANS 64T"" 



IV. THE PART PLAYED BY INFANCY IN THE EVOLU- 



TION OF MAN 100 



V. THE ORIGINS OF LIBERAL THOUGHT IN AMERICA . 122 



VI. SIR HARRY VANE 154 



VII. THE ARBITRATION TREATY 166 



VIII. FRANCIS PARKMAN 194 



IX. EDWARD AUGUSTUS FREEMAN 265 



X. CAMBRIDGE AS VILLAGE AND CITY 286 



XL A HARVEST OF IRISH FOLK-LORE 319 



XII. GUESSING AT HALF AND MULTIPLYING BY Two . 333 



XIII. FORTY YEARS OF BACON-SHAKESPEARE FOLLY . 350 



XIV. SOME CRANKS AND THEIR CROTCHETS .... 405 



NOTE 461 



INDE* . . 467 



