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A Century of Science, and Other Essays

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A Century of Science, and Other Essays

John Fiske

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Darwin's century needed a scorekeeper, and John Fiske volunteered. These essays open with a hundred years of science and press into the doctrine of evolution, its scope and purpose, written for readers who wanted the big argument without the laboratory. Fiske was America's great popularizer of the new ideas, genial and clear. Watch the nineteenth century take stock of itself.

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39 chapters

  1. 1A CENTURY OF SCIENCE
  2. 2And Other Essays
  3. 3JOHN FISKE
  4. 4DEDICATORY EPISTLE TO THOMAS SERGEANT PERRY,
  5. 5PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LITERATURE IN THE KEIO GIJUKU, AT TOKYO.
  6. 6CONTENTS
  7. 7A CENTURY OF SCIENCE
  8. 8I
  9. 9A CENTURY OF SCIENCE[3]
  10. 10II
  11. 11THE DOCTRINE OF EVOLUTION: ITS SCOPE AND PURPORT[5]
  12. 12III
  13. 13EDWARD LIVINGSTON YOUMANS[13]
  14. 14IV
  15. 15THE PART PLAYED BY INFANCY IN THE EVOLUTION OF MAN[16]
  16. 16V
  17. 17THE ORIGINS OF LIBERAL THOUGHT IN AMERICA[17]
  18. 18VI

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