Contemporary Evolution. AN ESSAY ON SOME RECENT SOCIAL CHANGES. BY ST. GEORGE MIVART. DIVINITY ECHOOL LIBRARY HARVARD UNIVERSITY NEW YORK: D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, 540 AND 551 BROADWAY. 1876. TO THE MOST HONOURABLE THE MARQUIS OF RIPON, K.G. MY DEAR LORD RIPON, I am very sensible of the kindness which has so readily accorded me permission to dedicate to your Lordship this Essay on Contemporary Evolution. I might indeed feel diffidence in thus attempting to point out some unlooked-for results of those post-mediæval social changes, in effecting which the English-speaking races have borne so prominent a part, but for this encouraging permission from one whose enlarged and candid mind renders him a most competent however indulgent a judge of my endeavour. With much respect, I am, My dear Lord Ripon, Yours most sincerely, ST. GEORGE MIVART. March 25th, 1876. WILMSHURST, Uckfield. |