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STUDIES

IN

LIFE AND SENSE

AUTHOR

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BY

ANDREW WILSON, F.R.S.E.

'LEISURE-TIME STUDIES' CHAPTERS ON EVOLUTION' ETC.

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ENTOMOLOGY

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I Dedicate this Book

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PREFACE.

THE ESSAYS included in this volume have appeared from time to time in various magazines. I may discover justification, if such be needed, for their publication in their present form, in the fact that this method of rendering permanent views and opinions which would otherwise vanish away with magazine "back stock," finds favour in the eyes of many readers, and has besides become a common practice of our day. The sole aim of the Essays now collected will be fulfilled if they succeed in explaining, to those "willing to know," some of the great facts and laws which underlie the every-day life both of man and his lower neighbours-animals and plants alike. There are many less effective things, in the way of modern culture, than a popular training in biology. To aid such culture in its own small measure is the chief object of the present volume.

To Messrs. Longmans & Co. I have to express my best thanks for kindly permitting the reprinting of the articles on "Human Resemblances to Lower Life" and "Some Economics of Nature," which originally appeared in "Longman's Magazine."

EDINBURGH: February 1887.

A. W.

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