The Fathers of Evolution and Other Addresses

Dietrich, John H

Edité par The First Unitarian society, 1927

The First Unitarian society, 1928. Hard cover, 276 pp. No other printings listed. In acceptable condition/ NO dust jacket. Green cloth covered boards with gold lettering on spine. Nicking and fraying to cloth at corner tips and top and bottom of spine. Moderate overall scuffing, aging and soiling to covers as well. Spine has a thin crack along hinge of front cover but binding is otherwise solid. front free end paper(s) has been torn out so the first page is the title page. Previous owner's name on title page. Otherwise pages are lightly aged but otherwise unmarked. NOT Ex-Library. A solid reading copy. [From Foreword] The addresses composing this volume arepublished as a result of the demand by those who heard them. They are printed as delivered before the First Unitarian Society of Minneapolis. Their style therefore is that of spoken and not written discourse, and does not so easily lend itself to print. Any attempt to change it, however, would have involved a difficult, if not impossible task.Neither would it have been desirable. The chief effectiveness of a public address after all is the manner of presentment, and while it is impossible to impart this to the printed page, it can be done more nearly by preserving than by changing the original utterances.The biographical addresses were delivered in a series on alternate Sunday moraings during the Autumn of 1926, while the others were delivered at different times during the^past few years and are included because of their related subjects. This accounts for occasional repetitions which of course would not occur in chapters written for abook. And of course since these addresses with the lives of men and the princh a scientific theory, they lay no claim to originality. They are merely attempts at presenting in simple phrase and brief form the outstanding events of these lives and the significant features of this theory as found in more comprehensive treatises. It only remains to be said that the purpose in publishing them is precisely the same as m delivering them ?to bring to people, in these days of dreadful reaction against scientific knowledge and intelligent research, a better understanding of the doctrine of evolution and its importance for the future of the world and of mankind. N° de réf. du vendeur 20150930002

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : The Fathers of Evolution and Other Addresses
Éditeur : The First Unitarian society
Date d'édition : 1927
Reliure : Hardcover
Etat : Acceptable