Biology, With Preludes On Current Events

INTRODUCTION. THE object of. the Boston Monday Lectures is to present the results of the freshest German, English, and American scholar- ship on the more important and difficult topics concerning the relation of Keligion and Science. They were begun in the Meionaon in 1875 and the audiences, gathered at noon on Mondays, were of such size as to need to be transferred to Park-street Church in October, 1876, and thence to Tremont Temple, which was often more than full during the winter of 1876-77. The audiences contained large numbers of ministers, teachers, and other educated men. The thirty-four lectures of the last season were stenographically reported in the Boston Daily Advertiser, and most of them were republished in full inNew York and London. The lectures on Biology oppose the materialistic, and not the theistic, theory of Evolution. See p. 111. The lectures on Transcendentalism contain a discussion of the views of Theodore Parker. The Committee having charge of the Boston Monday Lectures for the coming year consists of the following gentlemen His Excellency A. H. RICE, Governor of Massachusetts. Hon. ALPHEUS HARDY. Hon. WILLIAM CLAFLFN, Ex- Governor of Massachusetts. Prof. E. P. GOULD, Newton The- ological Institute. Rev. J. L. WITHROW, D.D. REUBEN CROOKE, Rev. WILLIAMM. BAKER, D.D. RUSSELL STURGIS, Jr. E. M. MCPHERSON. BOSTON, September, 1877. Prof. EDWARDS A. PARK, LL.D., Andover Theological Seminary. Eight Rev. BISHOP FOSTER. Prof. L. T. TOWNSEND, Boston University. ROBERT GILCHRIST. SAMUEL JOHNSON. Rev. Z. GRAY, D.D., Episcopal Theological School, Cambridge. WILLIAM B. MERRILL. M. R. DEMING, Secretary. HENKT F. DURANT, Chairman. PUBLISHEBS NOTE. Is the careful reports of Mr.Cooks Lectures printed in the Boston Daily Advertiser, were included by the stenographer sundry expressions applause, c. indicat- ing the immediate and varying impressions with which the Lectures were received. Though these reports have been thoroughly revised by the author, the publishers have thought it advisable to retain these expressions. Mr...