{"product_id":"2940015153880","title":"A Century of Science and Other Essays","description":"A Century of Science and Other Essays by John Fiske\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCOPYRIGHT, 1899\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCONTENTS\u003cbr\u003eDedication\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. A Century of Science\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. The Doctrine of Evolution: Its Scope and Purport\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. Edward Livingston Youmans\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. The Part Played by Infancy in the Evolution of Man\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5. The Origins of Liberal Thought in America\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6. Sir Harry Vane\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7. The Arbitration Treaty\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8. Francis Parkman\u003cbr\u003eChapter 9. Edward Augustus Freeman\u003cbr\u003eChapter 10. Cambridge as Village and City\u003cbr\u003eChapter 11. A Harvest of Irish Folk-Lore\u003cbr\u003eChapter 12. Guessing at Half and Multiplying by Two\u003cbr\u003eChapter 13. Forty Years of Bacon-Shakespeare Folly\u003cbr\u003eChapter 14. Some Cranks and Their Crotchets\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDedication\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDEDICATORY EPISTLE TO THOMAS SERGEANT PERRY,\u003cbr\u003ePROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LITERATURE IN THE KEIO GIJUKU, AT TOKYO.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDEAR TOM,--It has long been my wish to make you the patron saint or tutelar divinity of some book of mine, and it has lately occurred to me that it ought to be a book of the desultory and chatty sort that would remind you, in your present exile at the world’s eastern rim, of the many quiet evenings of old, when, over a tankard of mellow October and pipe of fragrant Virginia, while Yule logs crackled blithely and the music of pattering sleet was upon the window-pane, we used to roam in fancy through the universe and give free utterance to such thoughts, sedate or frivolous, as seemed to us good. I dare say the present volume may serve as an epitome of many such old-time sessions of sweet discourse, which I trust we shall by and by repeat and renew.\u003cbr\u003eBut there is one link of association which in my mind especially connects you with the present occasion. My theory of the causes and effects of the prolongation of human infancy, with reference to the evolution of man, was first published in the “North American Review” for October, 1873, when you were the editor of that periodical. The article, which was entitled “The Progress from Brute to Man,” was made up of two chapters of my “Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy” (part ii. chaps, xxi., xxii.), which was published a year later, in October, 1874. The value of the theory therein set forth was at once recognized by many leading naturalists. In the address of Vice-President Edward Morse, before the American Association, at its meeting at Buffalo in 1876, my theory receives extended notice as one of the most important contributions yet made to the Doctrine of Evolution; and it is declared that I have given “for the first time a rational explanation of the origin and persistence of family relations, and thence communal [_i. e._, clan] relations, and, finally, of society.”[1]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUncontrollable circumstances have prevented my giving to the further elaboration of this infancy theory the time and attention which it deserves and demands; but in my little book, “The Destiny of Man,” published in 1884, I gave a popular exposition of it which has made it widely known in all English-speaking countries and on the continent of Europe, as well as among your worthy Japanese neighbours, Tom, who have done me the honour to translate some of my books into their vernacular. The theory has become still further popularized through having furnished the starting-point for some of the most characteristic speculations of the late Henry Drummond. In these and other ways my infancy theory has so far entered into the current thoughts of the present age that people have (naturally enough) begun to forget with whom it ...continuned...","brand":"Denise Henry","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47080576188656,"sku":"2940015153880","price":1.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940015153880","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}