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SCIENTIFIC CA TALOG UE. 



candour, and in a clear^ and interesting manner, 



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In a long intro- 



Maurice 



justifies so77ie of his own peculiar viezvs, and touches tipon sofue of 

 the most important topics of the time. 



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Murphy.— HABIT AND INTELLIGENCE, in Connection 

 with the Laws of Matter and Force : A Series of Scientific Essays. 



By Joseph John Murphy. Two Vols. 8vo. i6j-. 



TAe mithor's chief purpose in this work has been to state and to dis- 

 cuss -what he regards as the special and characteristic principles of 

 life. The most important part of the work treats of those vital 

 principles which belong to the inner domain of life itself as dis- 

 tinguished from the principles which belong to the border-land 

 where life comes into contact with inorganic matter and force. In 

 the inner do?jiain of life we find tzuo principles, which are, the 

 author believes, coextensive zvith life and peculiar to if : these are 



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' possible of the lazvs under which habits forin, disappear, alter under 

 altered circumstances, and vary spontaneously. He discusses that 

 most important of all questions, zahether intelligence is an ultimate 

 fact, incapable of being resolved into any other, or only a resultant 

 from the lazvs of habit. The latter part of the first volume is 

 occupied zvith the discussion of the question of the Origin of Species. 

 The first part of the second volume is occupied with an inquiry 

 into the process of fnental grozvth and development, and the nature 

 ofnmttal intelligence. In the chapter that follows, the author dis- 

 cusses the science of history, and the three concluding chapters 

 contain some ideas on the classification, the history, and the logic, of 

 the sciences. The author's aim has been to make the subjects treated 

 of intelligible to any ordinary intelligent man, " We are pleased 

 to listen;' says the Saturday Review, "to a zvriter who has so firm 

 a foothold upon the ground within the scope of his immediate 

 survey, aitd zvho can enunciate with so 7nuch clearness and force 

 p7^opositio7ts zvhich come zuithin his grasp, " 



THOUGHTS ON LIFE-SCIENCE. 



Thring (E., M.A.)- 



By Edward Thring, M.A. (Benjamin Place), Head Master of 



Uppingham School. 

 Crown 8vo. 7^-. 6d, 



New Edition, enlarged and revised. 



In this volume are discussed in a familiar manner some of the most 

 interesting problems bettveen Science and Religion, Reason and 



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