BOSTON MONDAY LECTURES. BY JOSEPH COOK. Three BIOLOGY. With Preludes on Current Events. $1.50 1.50 1.50 1.50 1.50 1.50 CONSCIENCE. With Preludes on Current Events. "Joseph Cook is a phenomenon to be accounted for. No other American orator has done what he has done, or any thing like it; and. prior to the experiment, no voice would have been bold enough to predict its success."-Rev. Professor A. P. Peabody of Harvard University. "These Lectures are crowded so full of knowledge, of thought, of argument, illumined with such passages of eloquence and power, spiced so frequently with deep-cutting though good-natured irony, that I could make no abstract from them without utterly mutilating them."- Rev. Dr. Thomas Hill, ex-President of Harvard University, in the Christian Register. "Mr. Cook is a specialist. His work, as it now stands, represents fairly the very latest and best researches. George M. Beard, M.D., of New York. 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"These wonderful Lectures stand forth alone amidst the contemporary literature of the class to which they belong."- London Quarterly Review. "Traversing a very wide field, cutting right across the territories of rival specialists, the work on Biology contains not one important scientific misstatement, either of fact or theory."- Bibliotheca Sacra. "Vigorous and suggestive. Interesting from the glimpses they give of the present phases of speculation in what is emphatically the most thoughtful community in the United States."- London Spectator. "I admired the rhetorical power with which, before a large mixed audience, the speaker knew how to handle the difficult topic of biology, and to cause the teaching of German philosophers and theologians to be respected."-Professor Schoberlein of Gottingen University. HOUGHTON, OSGOOD & CO., Publishers. CONSCIENCE, WITH PRELUDES ON CURRENT EVENTS. BY JOSEPH COOK. "Ethical science now teaches not so much that man has conscience, HOUGHTON, OSGOOD AND COMPANY. The Riverside Press, Cambridge. 1879. 218 C1166.30 (4) 1878. Nov. 18, infl-f of Borten. COPYRIGHT, 1878, BY JOSEPH COOK. Franklin Press: Rand, Avery, & Co., INTRODUCTION. THE object of the Boston Monday Lectures is to present the results of the freshest German, English, and American scholarship on the more important and difficult topics concerning the relation of Religion and Science. They were begun in the Meionaon in 1875; and the audiences, gathered at noon on Mondays, were of such size as to need to be transferred to Park-street Church in October, 1876, and thence to Tremont Temple, which was often more than full during the winter of 1876-77, and in that of 1877-78. The audiences contained large numbers of ministers, teachers, and other educated men. The thirty-five lectures given in 1876-77 were reported in the Boston Daily Advertiser, by Mr. J. E. Bacon, stenographer; and most of them were republished in full in New York and London. They are contained in the first, second, and third volumes of Boston Monday Lectures," entitled "Biology," ""Transcendentalism," and "Orthodoxy." 66 The lectures on Biology oppose the materialistic, and not the theistic, theory of evolution. The lectures on Transcendentalism and Orthodoxy contain a discussion of the views of Theodore Parker. The thirty lectures given in 1877-78 were reported by Mr. Bacon, for the Advertiser, and republished in full in New York and London. They are contained in the fourth, fifth, and sixth volumes of "Boston Monday Lectures," entitled "Conscience," "Heredity," and "Marriage." In the present volume some of the salient points are: 1. The definition of conscience as that which perceives and feels rightness and obligatoriness in choices" (p. 17). 2. A fuller definition (p. 25), together with a distinction between what conscience includes and what it implies (pp. 25-28). 3. A study (in Lectures II. and III.) of the relations of ethical and biological science, or of the effect of the approval and disapproval of conscience upon the countenance and gesture. 4. A reply (in Lectures IV., V., and VI.) to the agnosticism of Matthew Arnold. 5. A criticism (in Lecture VI.) of the positions of Mansel as to the definitions of the infinite and absolute. 6. A consideration (in Lectures VII. and VIII.) of conscience as the foundation of the religion of science. 7. A series (in Lectures IX. and X.) of literary illustrations of conscience from Victor Hugo and Shakspeare. The theory as to conscience advanced in these lectures is in general accord with the ethical school represented by Kant, Dugald Stuart, Price and Edwards, and, among later German writers, by Lotze, Wutke, Hofmann,- Ulrici, and Rothe. It emphasizes that view of the moral faculty which materialism opposes, but which is admitted to have had, from Plato's time to the present, the greatest number of scholarly adherents. The peculiarity of the volume is in the use made of the most recent biological science. A consideration of the origin of conscience will be found in the lectures on Heredity. The committee having charge of the Boston Monday Lectures for the coming year consists of the following gentlemen: His Excellency A. H. RICE, Governor Prof. EDWARDS A. PARK, D.D., Andover Theological Seminary. of Massachusetts. Hon. WILLIAM CLAFLIN, Ex-Governor Right Rev. BISHOP PADDOCK. of Massachusetts. Prof. E. N. HORSFORD. Prof. E. P. GOULD, Newton Theologi- Hon. ALPHEUS HARDY. cal Institution. Rev. WILLIAM M. BAKER, D.D. Rev. J. L. WITHROW, D.D. Rev. WILLIAM F. WARREN, D.D., Bos- RUSSELL STURGIS, Jr. ton University. Right Rev. BISHOP FOSTER. Prof. L. T. TOWNSEND, Boston Univer- REUBEN CROOKE. sity. E. M. MCPHERSON. ROBERT GILCHRIST. Prof. GEORGE Z. GRAY, D.D., Episcopal Theological School, Cambridge. SAMUEL JOHNSON. WILLIAM B. MERRILL. M. R. DEMING, Secretary. B. W. WILLIAMS, Financial Agent. HENRY F. DURANT, Chairman. |
