IN our last issue, we spoke highly of the choice of subjects of the Natural History Society lectures, and after listening to the first in the series, we can only add praise to our previous statement. The subject, "The Function of Great Men in Social Evolution," aside from being of general concern and importance in itself, was treated scientifically, and in a way that gave it peculiar interest. Not the least pleasing part was the seeming ease with which Dr. James met and refuted some of the opinions set forth by Herbert Spencer in his Sociology. The Natural History Society is, we repeat, fortunate in having its course of lectures so successfully and brilliantly opened, and we hope that, hereafter, our own professors may often be heard to like advantage.
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