BY THE SAME AUTHOR. A SKETCH OF A PHILOSOPHY. In Four Parts. Sold separately. Williams & Norgate. PART I. Mind: Its Powers and Capacities, and its Relation to Matter II. Matter and Molecular Morphology. The Elemental Synthesis. III. The Chemistry of Natural Substances. Illustrated by 2 Plates IV. Biology and Theodicy. A Prelude to the Biology of the Future. THE FIRST LINES OF SCIENCE SIMPLIFIED AND THE STRUCTURE OF MOLECULES ATTEMPTED. Sutherland & Knox (1860). ELEMENTS OF THE ECONOMY OF NATURE. (A Fragment.) Second Edition. Chapman & Hall (1856). THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE BEAUTIFUL. trations. Edmonstone & Douglas (1855). With Illus AN ENQUIRY INTO HUMAN NATURE. Sutherland & Knox (1853). THE CATHOLIC SPIRIT OF TRUE RELIGION. Not an uniformity over all and everywhere, as attempted in the Church of Rome, &c. But unity in variety, as realised in the Creation, and in the Beautiful, is a constitution of the Church as a whole, answerable to the Present Epoch. Scott, Webster, & Geary (1840). ON THE BEAUTIFUL, THE PICTURESQUE, AND THE SUBLIME. Scott, Webster, & Geary (1837). PREFACE. THE primers, class-books, and text-books on all branches of science now publishing are, I think, calculated to do a great deal of good. They show how compendiously the most part of what is ascertained to be real and important in science may be intelligibly stated, and how interesting to minds of general culture an acquaintance with nature is when the statement of it is freed from the laboured scaffolding which usually surrounds it, and is deemed necessary to support it, in systematic treatises. It may, indeed, be alleged that these primers present to their readers merely a smattering of science. But may it not with truth be replied, in similar terms, that the actual science of the day, in all its details, when viewed in reference to a satisfactory view of nature and its economy, is itself merely a smattering? The following pages, which, to perpetuate a |