SINCE 1848, when the" Poetry of Science" was first submitted to the public, two editions
have been exhausted. This, were proofs required, would of itself show that there is a large …

IN the following pages I have endeavoured to give, in terms as simple as the nature of the
subject will permit, a connected account of the leading principles of modern physical …

HE prominence which that complex of knowledge and ideas which is denoted by the term
Natural Science has attained in the thought and life of the modern world is undeniable, and …

HROUGHOUT the following pages it has been the Author's aim to present the subjects of
which they treat in a manner entirely compatible with the requirements of a book intended for …

The following pages contain the points of view of an individual scientist upon some of the
great problems of life which lie outside the field in which he can claim to speak with any sort …

GENTLEMEN, IN addressing so distinguished and so important a part of the community, it
becomes me to say, that I am not myself a man of experimental Science, neither, out of the …

THE present volume, which is designed to take a systematic, but popular, survey of the most
interesting features of the general SCIENCE OF NATURE, for the purpose of elucidating …

THE Essays contained in this volume represent chiefly the later phases of their writer's
thoughts on the problems concerned with the interpretation of nature and man. Some of the …

OCIENCE, like a flooding sea, has washed over many successive shore lines toward man's
intellectual horizon. Today, more than three centuries after Newton, we can still say, with …

THIS book is an attempt to expound the main ideas of physical science in non-technical
language. The scheme of the book may well seem ambitious, since I begin with the …