The care and culture of men

Preface

This volume is made up of addresses relating to higher education, delivered at different times before assemblies of teachers and students. The writer is under obligation to the publishers of the Popular Science Monthly, the Forum, and the Occidental Medical Times for the permission to reprint articles which have appeared in these periodicals. Most of the articles have been freely retouched since their original publication.

Palo Alto, Cal.

Foreword To The Present Edition

The plates of the first edition of "The Care and Culture of Men" were destroyed by the fire that followed the earthquake of 1906. In re-publishing the book the Editor has taken the Hberty of adding some new material that seemed properly to belong in it, while certain essays that appeared in the former volume have been omitted. — Editor.