THE REALISTIC ASSUMPTIONS OF MODERN SCIENCE EXAMINED. BY THOMAS MARTIN HERBERT, M.A., LATE PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY AND CHURCH HISTORY IN THE LANCASHIRE London: MACMILLAN AND CO. 1879. [The right of translation is reserved.] GLASGOW: Printed at the University Press BY ROBERT MACLEHOSE, 153 WEST NILE STREET. BJJLETAN 19-7 1901 LIBRARY PREFACE. THIS volume is from the pen of the late Thomas Martin Herbert, M.A., Professor of Philosophy and Church History in Lancashire Independent College. He died at the early age of forty-two, in November, 1877, after one day's illness, having occupied this post for little more than twelve months. The subject treated of in this book was thoroughly congenial with his tastes. For years he had given it careful attention, devoting to it all the time he could command. His first published thoughts upon the subject appeared in the British Quarterly Review for January, 1874, in an article entitled "Mind and the Science of Energy." The reception with which that article met confirmed his sense of the importance of his argument, and encouraged him to carry out his intention of more fully developing his thoughts in the form in which they are now laid before the public. The task of editing the book has been undertaken by his colleague, James M. Hodgson, M.A., B.D. Except the correction of some clerical errors, and slight changes in a few sentences manifestly obscure or incorrect, which Mr. |