Most of the following essays have appeared in the pages of the _Quarterly Review_, and I am greatly indebted to the editor and to the proprietor of that periodical for permission to reprint them. The article on ‘The Infinite Torment of Flies’ is an address I delivered before the British Association at Pretoria in 1905, and the eighth essay appeared in _Science Progress_. As far as possible I have tried to avoid the use of long words, and thus escape the censure of recent critics in the _Times_; but I fear I have not altogether succeeded, and my excuse must be that with new discoveries new conceptions arise, and these conceptions require new names, or we cannot talk or write about them with …
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