6o SCIENTIFIC CATALOGUE. 



most important of all questions, whether intelligence is an ultimate 

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

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

 occupied with 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 mental growth and development, and the nature 

 of menial 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 m^n. ^^ We are pleased 

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

 a foothold upon the ground within the scope of his imm.ediate 

 survey, and who can enunciate with so much clearness a?id force 

 propositions which come within his grasp. " 



Thring (E., M. A.)— THOUGHTS ON LIFE-SCIENCE. 

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

 Uppingham School. New Edition, enlarged and revised. 

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

 interesting problems between Science and Religion, Reason and 

 Feeling. " Learning and Science," says the author, "are claiming 

 the right of building up and pulling down everything, especially 

 the latter. It has seemed to me no useless task to look steadily at 

 what has happened, to take stock as it were of men's gains, and to 

 endeavour amidst new circu-mstances to arrive at some rational 

 estimate of the bearings of things, so that the limits of what is 

 possible at all events may be clearly marked out for ordinary 



readers This book is an endeavour to bring out some of the 



main facts of the world." 



Venn.— THE logic of chance : An Essay on the Founda- 

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 reference to its application to Moral and Social Science. By John 

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This Essay is in no sense mathematical. Probability, the author 

 thinks, may be considered to be a portion of the provinc: of Log c 



