Contents

• PROLOGUE
• I. THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF PALÆONTOLOGY
  • An Address delivered at the York Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1881
• II. THE INTERPRETERS OF GENESIS AND THE INTERPRETERS OF NATURE
  • Nineteenth Century, December 1885
• III. MR GLADSTONE AND GENESIS
  • Nineteenth Century, February 1886
  • Note on the proper sense of the "Mosaic" narrative of the Creation
• IV. THE EVOLUTION OF THEOLOGY: AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL STUDY
  • Nineteenth Century, March and April 1886
• V. SCIENCE AND MORALS
  • Fortnightly Review, November 1886
• VI. SCIENTIFIC AND PSEUDO-SCIENTIFIC REALISM
  • Nineteenth Century, February 1887
• VII. SCIENCE AND PSEUDO-SCIENCE
  • Nineteenth Century, April 1887
• VIII. AN EPISCOPAL TRILOGY
  • Nineteenth Century, November 1887
• IX. AGNOSTICISM
  • Nineteenth Century, February 1889
• X. THE VALUE OF WITNESS TO THE MIRACULOUS
  • Nineteenth Century, March 1889
• XI. AGNOSTICISM: A REJOINDER
  • Nineteenth Century, April 1889
• XII. AGNOSTICISM AND CHRISTIANITY
  • Nineteenth Century, June 1889
• XIII. THE LIGHTS OF THE CHURCH AND THE LIGHT OF SCIENCE
  • Nineteenth Century, July 1890
• XIV. THE KEEPERS OF THE HERD OF SWINE
  • Nineteenth Century, December 1890
• XV. ILLUSTRATIONS OF MR. GLADSTONE'S CONTROVERSIAL METHODS
  • Nineteenth Century, March 1891
• XVI. HASISADRA'S ADVENTURE
  • Nineteenth Century, June 1891

I am indebted to the Editors of the Nineteenth Century and of the Fortnightly Review for permission to reprint such of the following Essays as have appeared in the pages of those periodicals: and so large a proportion of the papers has been published in the Nineteenth Century that my acknowledgments are especially due to Mr. Knowles.

T. H. H.

May 4, 1892.