ΤΟ JOHN WILSON, ESQ., OF THE 'EDINBURGH EVENING NEWS,' WHOSE ESTIMABLE QUALITIES AS AN EMPLOYER ARE EQUALLED ONLY BY HIS STERLING VIRTUES AS A FRIEND. PREFACE. THE contents of this volume appeared originally as weekly contributions to the Edinburgh Evening News.' The reception accorded to them encourages me to hope that, in their new form, they will be of permanent value to students of the higher problems of life and thought. In dealing with the subject of evolution I have not hesitated to utilise occasional paragraphs from my book on Herbert Spencer. Readers of that work will detect in the following pages a difference of tone in the handling of the ultimate problems of philosophy. In the book on Spencer the conclusions are mainly negative. In this volume I have advanced to a more positive position along the lines of an anti-material |