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1878 Boston Monday Lectures, US by Rev Joseph Cook CHARLES DARWIN / HUXLEY etc

1878 Boston Monday Lectures, US by Rev Joseph Cook CHARLES DARWIN / HUXLEY etc

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Boston Monday Lectures, US ; Monday Lectures in Tremont Hall, Boston, US.

Also bound in the book is 'Familiar Talks'.

Both titles by Rev. Joesph Cook.

Published London, R D Dickinson, 1878. First Edition.

CHAPTERS FOR MONDAY LECTURES:
Decline of Rationalism in the German Universities -  Darwin's Theory of Pangenesis, or Hereditary Descent - Herbert Spencer on Hereditary Descent - Darwin on the Origin of Conscience) - Marraige and Hereditary Descent - The Descent of Bad Traits and Good - Infedel Attack on the Family - Marraige Without Love - Love Without Marraige - Goethe and Shakespeare on Marraige - Inherited Educational Forces - Hereditary Taints in Blood

CHAPTERS FOR FAMILIAR TALKS:
Personal Visitation - If Everyone Would Mend One then all Would be Ammended - Teperance and the Theatre - After Meetings - The Evils of Turkish Rule - Sir Harry Vane - The Evils of the Papacy - Chirch-Work in Great Cities - In the Name of God, Amen - The Efficacy of Prayer - Books for the Christain Life - The American Revival - The Guilt of Sin - The Victory of Christainity - Mr. Huxley's Theory of Evolutaion - The Origin of Christianity - The Victory of Christianity - Capital of Labour - Family Wages and Bachelor Wages -  Forgeign Missions - Infedelity in Boston - The Silver Bill - College Scholarship - A Litereary Conference at the Paris Exposition

CONDITION:
Good ex-library, once belonging to the Free Church of Scotland's library in Edinburgh, Scotland. Binding good with some scuffing to corners and to spine edges - la few library stamps but pages very good througout.

(Loc: Shop; Below Folio Society; Misc shelf )
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