The Destiny of Man - Viewed in the Light of His Origin by John Fiske
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effective beyond measure.... It is a statement that every child can
comprehend, but that only a man of consummate genius could have written.--Mrs. CAROLINE H. DALL, _in the Springfield Republican_. The story of the Revolution, as Mr. Fiske tells it, is one of surpassing interest. His treatment is a marvel of clearness and comprehensiveness; discarding non-essential details, he selects with a fine historic instinct the main currents of history, traces them with the utmost precision, and tells the whole story in a masterly fashion. His little volume will be a text-book for older quite as much as for young readers.--_Christian Union_ (New York). OUTLINES OF COSMIC PHILOSOPHY _Based on the Doctrine of Evolution, with Criticisms on the Positive Philosophy. In two volumes. 8vo, $6.00._ "You must allow me to thank you for the very great interest with which I have at last slowly read the whole of your work.... I never in my life read so lucid an expositor (and therefore thinker) as you are; and I think that I understand nearly the whole, though perhaps less clearly about cosmic theism and causation than other parts. It is hopeless to attempt out of so much to specify what has interested me most, and probably you would not care to hear. It pleased me to find that here and there I had arrived, from my own crude thoughts, at some of the same conclusions with you, though I could seldom or never have given my reasons for such conclusions."--CHARLES DARWIN. This work of Mr. Fiske's may be not unfairly designated the most |
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