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ogy or even letters holding the foremost place at the celebration, 
it was chiefly natural science that was glorified, and the scientific 
men who bore away the palm of applause and curiosity.” 
_ May this occasion be prophetic of the period, not now we 
hope far distant, when the physical and natural sciences will have 
an equality in rank and importance with letters and elementary 
mathematics in all universities and colleges; when entrance ex- 
aminations to\these institutions will demand as much preliminary 
training in the observational sciences as in language or mathema- 
tics. Then will dawn the era of a truly liberal education; an 
age of many-sidedness in contrast with the onesided “liberal” 
ucation of commencement dinner speeches. 
are 
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RECENT LITERATURE. 
“a fs were derived from authority. It will be seen at the out- 
aom the plan and treatment of the book is essentially dog- 
noel ag a priori, i, e., theological rather than inductive or 
of After illustrating the idea of the unity of nature from the point 
view of physics, astronomy and chemistry as well as bitigi 
— animal instinct in its relation to the mind of man; the 
ts and truthfulness of human knowledge; the elementary 
Constitution of matter in relation to the inorganic and organic; 
in > the representative of the supernatural ; the moral coos 
religi man; the degradation of man; the nature and origin 
On, and the corruptions of religion. 
Rew „Work on the whole may be regarded as an attempt to n 
7 wine into old bottles. We should prefer to begin with the 
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