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       PROLOGUE

       I

       THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF PALÆONTOLOGY

       II

       THE INTERPRETERS OF GENESIS AND THE INTERPRETERS OF NATURE

       III

       MR. GLADSTONE AND GENESIS

       IV

       THE EVOLUTION OF THEOLOGY: AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL STUDY

       V

       SCIENCE AND MORALS

       VI

       SCIENTIFIC AND PSEUDO-SCIENTIFIC REALISM

       VII

       SCIENCE AND PSEUDO-SCIENCE

       VIII

       AN EPISCOPAL TRILOGY

       IX

       AGNOSTICISM

       X

       THE VALUE OF WITNESS TO THE MIRACULOUS

       XI

       AGNOSTICISM: A REJOINDER

       XII

       AGNOSTICISM AND CHRISTIANITY

       XIII

       THE LIGHTS OF THE CHURCH AND THE LIGHT OF SCIENCE

       XIV

       THE KEEPERS OF THE HERD OF SWINE

       XV

       ILLUSTRATIONS OF MR. GLADSTONE'S CONTROVERSIAL METHODS

       XVI

       HASISADRA'S ADVENTURE

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       Notes

      I am indebted to the Editors of the Nineteenth Century and of the Fortnightly Review for permission to reprint such of the following Essays as have appeared in the pages of those periodicals: and so large a proportion of the papers has been published in the Nineteenth Century that my acknowledgments are especially due to Mr. Knowles.

      T. H. H.

      May 4, 1892.

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      Le plus grand service qu'on puisse rendre à la science est d'y faire place nette avant d'y rien construire.—Cuvier.

      Most of the Essays comprised in the present volume have been written during the last six or seven years, without premeditated purpose or intentional connection, in reply to attacks upon doctrines which I hold to be well founded; or in refutation of allegations respecting matters lying within the province of natural knowledge, which I believe to be erroneous; and they bear the mark of their origin in the controversial tone which pervades them.

      Of polemical writing, as of other kinds of warfare, I think it may be said, that it is often useful, sometimes necessary, and always more or less of an evil. It is useful, when it attracts attention to topics which might otherwise be neglected; and when, as does sometimes happen, those who come to see a contest remain to think. It is necessary, when the interests of truth and of justice are at stake. It is an evil, in so far as controversy