CERTAINTIES OF THE SOUL

AND

SPECULATIONS OF SCIENCE.

COOK'S BOSTON MONDAY LECTURES.

UNIFORM WITH THIS VOLUME.

I. BIOLOGY AND TRANSCENDENTALISM.

2. GOD AND THE CONSCIENCE; LOVE AND MARRIAGE.

3. SCEPTICISM AND RATIONALISM.

LONDON: WARD, LOCK, & CO., SALISBURY SQUARE, E.C.

"All men must think for themselves; and so all men must be taught how to think.
It is, therefore, worth while for public educated discussion to put in the foreground
axioms, self-evident truths, intuitions, instincts, or the nature of things, and to let men
see that, after all, the great truths we cannot help believing are the things of most
importance to us."—Lecture on "The Soul in Harmony with its Environment."

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PREFACE.

IN most of these Lectures the gifted author appears more expressly in the character of a teacher of personal religion than in those in which he deals more exclusively with scientific theories. The second title, however, shows that he analyses some of the speculations of materialistic writers with his wonted power. His belief in the extended mission of a preacher of the Gospel as a student and revealer of all the truth attainable by the human intellect, is strongly expressed, and this new volume of Lectures displays all his old skill in subtle investigation, and all his wealth of appropriate illustration. The Lecture on “Certitudes in Religion" has recently been delivered by Mr. Cook in this country, and excited considerable interest. "Solar Self-culture" is a very remarkable Lecture, touching upon a subject-the light revealed in the faces of persons inspired by religious fervour and purity of nature-which the greatest painters have endeavoured to indicate, and which is so prominently referred to in many passages of Scripture.