Dedication
TO THE MEMORY
OF
JAMES LICK
who, by his munificent bequests to
SCIENCE, INDUSTRY, CHARITY AND EDUCATION
has indicated in the manner of their
disposal, that humanity, wisdom, and enlightenment, arising
out of the convictions of modern thought, which holds these,
his beneficiaries to be the noblest and divinest pursuits of
mankind, and the only possible agencies in the betterment of
society.
This Book is reverently inscribed
By the Author.