George John Romanes: 6 books

Book cover of Mind and Motion and Monism
by George John Romanes
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: "George John Romanes FRS (20 May 1848 23 May 1894) was a Canadian-born English evolutionary biologist and physiologist who laid the foundation of what he called comparative psychology, postulating a similarity of cognitive processes and mechanisms between humans and animals....
Book cover of Mind and Motion and Monism
by George John Romanes
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015

Of the contents of this little volume the section on Mind and Motion which forms, in accordance with a suggestion of the author's, a general introduction, was delivered at Cambridge as the Rede Lecture in 1885, and was printed in the Contemporary Review for June in that year. The chapter on The World...
Book cover of Thoughts on Religion
by George John Romanes
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015

After reading the notes myself, and obtaining the judgement of Others in whom I feel confidence upon them, I have no hesitation either in publishing by far the greater part of them, or in publishing them with the author's name in spite of the fact that the book as originally projected was to have...
Book cover of The Scientific Evidences of Organic Evolution
by George John Romanes
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015

Several months ago I published in the Fortnightly Review a lecture, which I had previously delivered at the Philosophical Institutions of Edinburgh and Birmingham, and which bore the above title. The late Mr. Darwin thought well of the epitome of his doctrine which the lecture presented, and urged me...
Book cover of Darwin and After Darwin: An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions of Heredity and Utility (Complete)
by George John Romanes
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015

Several years ago Lord Rosebery founded, in the University of Edinburgh, a lectureship on “The Philosophy of Natural History,” and I was invited by the Senatus to deliver the lectures. This invitation I accepted, and subsequently constituted the material of my lectures the foundation of another...
Book cover of A Candid Examination of Theism
by George John Romanes
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015

The following essay was written several years ago; but I have hitherto refrained from publishing it, lest, after having done so, I should find that more mature thought had modified the conclusions which the essay sets forth. Judging, however, that it is now more than ever improbable that I shall myself...
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