Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Man: Where, Whence, and Whither?: Being a Glance at Man in His Natural History Relations
A sketch of the thoughts expressed in the following pages was given in two lectures to the Members of the Edinburgh Philosophical Institution, in November 1866. Exciting considerable interest at the time, and receiving through the newspapers a wider audience than that to which they were originally addressed, these lectures, as might have been expected, met with a somewhat varied reception. By many the views they contained were adopted without reserve; by some, though not adopted, they were received in a Spirit of candor and inquiry; while by a few the whole argument was met with the most vehement and unreasoning opposition. Had the last contented themselves with merely Opposing - every man having a right to the free utterance of his opinions - the argu.
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