SAMUEL LAING'S WORKS.
HUMAN ORIGINS: Evidence from History and Science. By Samuel Laing. With Illustrations. Demy 8vo, 3s. 6d. Fourteenth Thousand.
The Times says:—"Mr. Laing's present purpose is to use recent researches into the history of the ancient nations of the world as a rough 'measuring-rod' for gauging the duration of the pre-historic periods of human existence.... This is Mr. Laing's plan, and its execution is divided into two parts; in the first Mr. Laing recapitulates the results, carried up to the latest date, of the labours of Egyptologists and Assyriologists, with a glance at civilization which, like the Chinese, cannot be traced back to such a remote era. In the second he reviews once more the evidence for the Neolithic and Palaeolithic ages, and the Quaternary and Tertiary periods.... Mr. Laing performs an operation of great utility to the general reader."
PROBLEMS OF THE FUTURE, and Essays. By Samuel Laing. Demy 8vo, 3s. 6d. Fifteenth Thousand.
The Daily News says:—"The versatile and accomplished author of these thoughtful and often suggestive contributions in aid of younger seekers after knowledge, is himself a good example of that indefatigable and insatiable intellectual curiosity which is the motive and secret of true science. "All, or nearly all, the questions which are at present occupying the foremost men of science are here discussed in the clear, simple, and untechnical language of one who has mastered the subjects sufficiently to make his deepest thoughts run clear in words."
MODERN SCIENCE AND MODERN THOUGHT. By Samuel Laing. Containing a Supplemental Chapter on Gladstone's Dawn of Creation, and Proem of Genesis, and on Drummond's Natural Law in the Spiritual World. Demy 8vo, 3s. 6d. Twenty-first Thousand.
The Pall Mall Gazette says:—"It is the expression of a sensible, well-read, compromise-loving Briton's final conclusions upon religious matters. The first part is a rapid and clearly written résumé of all that modern science and modern criticism have done to sap the foundation of current theologies and the current dogmas. This resume is admirably done. Mr. Laing manages to condense into a few short chapters an amount of salient information on matters astronomical, geological, archaeological, and historical; and withal he condenses it cleverly. The anxious but unlearned inquirer who really wishes to know how much recent researches have effected towards undermining the ground-work of the existing creeds, cannot do better than turn to Mr. Laing's pleasantly written pages."
A MODERN ZOROASTRIAN. By Samuel Laing. Demy 8vo, 3s. 6d. Tenth Thousand.
The Westminster Review says:—"In the strictly scientific part of the work the exposition is admirable, such as any great teacher might be glad to have written, marked by breadth of grasp and clearness.... From its clearly written, able, and sympathetic discussion of so many of the great problems of existence, the book cannot fail to exercise a great influence on a large number of readers."
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