INTRODUCTION. THE object of the Boston Monday Lectures is to present the results of the freshest German, English, and American scholarship on the more important and difficult topics concerning the relation of Religion 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 in New 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 CONTENTS. 73 95 II. THE CONCESSIONS OF EVOLUTIONISTS III. THE CONCESSIONS OF EVOLUTIONISTS IV. THE MICROSCOPE AND MATERIALISM V. LOTZE, BEALE, AND HUXLEY ON LIVING TISSUES IX. DOES DEATH END ALL? IS INSTINCT IMMORTAL? X. DOES Death end ALL? BAIN'S MATERIALISM XI. AUTOMATIC AND INFLUENTIAL NERVES XII. EMERSON'S VIEWS ON IMMORTALITY VII. THE GULF CURRENT IN HISTORY |