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A Century Of Science

by John Fiske

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Author
Fiske, John, 1842-1901
Title
A Century of Science, and Other Essays
Credits
Produced by David Garcia, Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe, Josephine Paolucci and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net. (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive.)
Language
English
LoC Class
AC: General Works: Collections, Series, Collected works, Pamphlets
Subject
Cambridge (Mass.) -- Description and travel
Category
Text
eBook-No.
40590
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40590
Release Date
August 27, 2012
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.A CENTURY OF SCIENCE
  2. 2.JOHN FISKE
  3. 3.DEDICATORY EPISTLE TO THOMAS SERGEANT PERRY, — PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LITERATURE IN THE KEIO GIJUKU, AT TOKYO.
  4. 4.CONTENTS
  5. 5.A CENTURY OF SCIENCE
  6. 6.I — A CENTURY OF SCIENCE [3]
  7. 7.II — THE DOCTRINE OF EVOLUTION: ITS SCOPE AND PURPORT [5]
  8. 8.III — EDWARD LIVINGSTON YOUMANS [13]
  9. 9.IV — THE PART PLAYED BY INFANCY IN THE EVOLUTION OF MAN [16]
  10. 10.V — THE ORIGINS OF LIBERAL THOUGHT IN AMERICA [17]
  11. 11.VI — SIR HARRY VANE [22]
  12. 12.VII — THE ARBITRATION TREATY
  13. 13.VIII — FRANCIS PARKMAN [25]
  14. 14.IX — EDWARD AUGUSTUS FREEMAN
  15. 15.X — CAMBRIDGE AS VILLAGE AND CITY [27]
  16. 16.XI — A HARVEST OF IRISH FOLK-LORE
  17. 17.XII — GUESSING AT HALF AND MULTIPLYING BY TWO
  18. 18.XIII — FORTY YEARS OF BACON-SHAKESPEARE FOLLY [36]
  19. 19.XIV — SOME CRANKS AND THEIR CROTCHETS
  20. 20.NOTE — AN ACCOUNT OF THE ADONI-SHOMO COMMUNITY
  21. 21.INDEX
  22. 22.FOOTNOTES:

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