SAMUEL LAING'S WOEKS. 



HUMAN ORIGINS : Evidence from History and Science. 



By Samuel Laing. With Illustrations. Demy 8vo, 3s. 6d. 



Fourteenth Thousand. 

 The Times says : — "Mr. Laing's present purpose is to use recent researches into 

 the history of the ancient nations of the world as a rough 'measuring-rod' for 

 gauging the duration of the pre-historic periods of human existence. . . . Tliis is 

 Mr. Laing's plan, and its execution is divided into two parts ; in the first Mr. Laing 

 recapitulates the results, carried up to the latest date, of the lahours of Egyptologists 

 and Assyriologists, with a glance at civilization which, like the Chinese, cannot be 

 traced back to such a remote era. In the second he reviews once more the 

 evidence for the Neolithic and Palsaolithic ages, and the Quaternary and Tertiary 

 periods. . . . Mr. Laing performs an operation of great utility to the general 

 reader." 



PROBLEMS OF THE FUTURE, and Essays. By 



Samuel Laing. Demy 8vo, 3s. Qd. Fifteentli Thousand. 



The Daily News says : — "The versatile and accomplished author of these thought- 

 ful and often suggestive contributions in aid of younger seekers after knowledge, is 

 himself a good example of that indefatigable and insatiable intellectual curiosity 

 which is the motive and secret of true science. 



"All, or nearly all, the questions which are at present occupying the foremost 

 men of science are here discussed in the clear, simple, and untechnical language of 

 one who has mastered the subjects sufficiently to make his deepest thoughts run 

 clear in words." 



MODERN SCIENCE AND MODERN THOUGHT. By 



Samuel Laing. Containing a Supplemental Chapter on Gladstone's 

 Davni of Creation, and Proem of Genesis, and on Drummond's 

 Natural Law in the Spiritual World. Demy 8vo, 3s. 6d. Twenty- 

 first Thousand. 

 The Pall Mall Gazette says :— " It is the expression of a sensible, well-read, com- 

 promise-loving Briton's final conclusions upon religious matters. The first part 

 is a rapid and clearly written resume of all tliat modem science and modem 

 criticism have done to sap the foundation of current theologies and the current 

 dogmas. This riiu-nti is admirably done. Mr. Laing manages to condense into a 

 few short chapters an amount of salient information on matters astronomical, 

 geological, archseological, and historical ; and withal he condenses it cleverly. Tlie 

 anxious but unlearned inquirer who really wishes to know how much recent 

 researches have effected towards undermining the ground-work of the existing 

 creeds, cannot do better than turn to Mr. Laing's pleasantly written pages." 



A MODERN ZOROASTRIAN. By Samuel Laing. Demy 



8vo, 3s. 6d. Tenth Thousand. 

 The Westminster Review says :— " In the strictly scientific part of the work the 

 exposition is admirable, such as any great teacher might be glad to have written, 

 marked by breadth of grasp and clearness. . . . From its clearly written, able, and 

 .sympathetic discussion of so many of the great problems of existence, the book 

 cannot fail to exercise a great influence on a large number of readers." 



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