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THE DESTINY OF MAN
VIEWED IN THE LIGHT OF HIS ORIGIN
BY
JOHN FISKE
TWENTIETH EDITION.
BOSTON
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
1893
Copyright, 1884,
BY JOHN FISKE.
TO
MY CHILDREN,
MAUD, HAROLD, CLARENCE, RALPH, ETHEL, AND HERBERT,
This Essay
_IS LOVINGLY DEDICATED._
PREFACE.
Having been invited to give an address before the Concord School of
Philosophy this summer, upon some subject relating to the question of
immortality there under discussion, it seemed a proper occasion for
putting together the following thoughts on the origin of Man and his
place in the universe. In dealing with the unknown, it is well to take
one's start a long way within the limits of the known. The question of a
future life is generally regarded as lying outside the range of
legitimate scientific discussion. Yet while fully admitting this, one
does not necessarily admit that the subject is one with regard to which
we are forever debarred from entertaining an opinion.
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