Evolution and Ethics and Other Essays
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THE discourse on “Evolution and Ethics,” reprinted
in the first half of
the present volume, was delivered before the University of Oxford,
as
the second of the annual lectures founded by Mr. Romanes:
whose name I
may not write without deploring the untimely death, in the flower
of
his age, of a friend endeared to me, as to so many others, by
his
kindly nature; and justly valued by all his colleagues for his
powers
of investigation and his zeal for the advancement of
knowledge. I well
remember, when Mr. Romanes’ early work came into my hands, as
one of
the secretaries of the Royal Society, how much I rejoiced in
the
accession to the ranks of the little army of workers in science of
a
recruit so well qualified to take a high place among us.
