Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Naturalism and Agnosticism, Vol. 1: The Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the University of Aberdeen in the Years 1896 1898
Though the first edition of this work was exhausted more than a year ago, my engagements have prevented me till recently from completing such revision as seemed essential to the issue of a second. Besides making numerous corrections and emendations in the text, suggested by various reviewers and correspondents, I have added at the end of each volume a number of Explanatory Notes, ' dealing chie?y with controverted points. In a Supplement ary Note to Part I. I have endeavoured to reply to the defence of physical realism advanced by Sir Arthur Riicker in his Presidential Address to the British Associa tion in 1901.
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