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HENRY DRUMMOND (1851-1897)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 600 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HENRY See also:DRUMMOND (1851-1897)  , Scottish evangelical writer and lecturer, was See also:horn in See also:Stirling on the 17th of See also:August 1851 . He was educated at See also:Edinburgh University, where he displayed a strong inclination for • See also:physical and mathematical See also:science . The religious See also:element was an even more powerful See also:factor in his nature, and disposed him to enter the See also:Free See also:Church of See also:Scotland . While preparing for the See also:ministry, he became for a See also:time deeply interested in the evangelizing See also:mission of See also:Moody and Sankey, in which he actively co-operated for two years . In 1877 he became lecturer on natural science in the Free Church See also:College, which enabled him to combine all the pursuits for which he See also:felt a vocation . His studies resulted in his See also:writing Natural See also:Law in the Spiritual See also:World, the See also:argument of which was that the scientific principle of continuity extended from the physical world to the spiritual . Before the See also:book issued from the See also:press (1883), a sudden invitation from the See also:African Lakes See also:Company See also:drew See also:Drummond away to Central See also:Africa .. Upon his return in the following See also:year he found himself famous . Large bodies of serious readers, alike among the religious and the scientific classes, discovered in Natural Law the See also:common See also:standing-ground which they needed; and the universality of the demand proved, if nothing more, the seasonableness of its publication . Drummond continued to be actively interested in missionary and other movements among the Free Church students . In 1888 he published Tropical Africa, a valuable See also:digest of See also:information . In 1890 he travelled in See also:Australia, and in 1893 delivered the See also:Lowell Lectures at See also:Boston .

It had been his intention to reserve them for mature revision, but an attempted piracy compelled him to hasten their publication, ,and they appeared in 1844 under the See also:

title of The Ascent of See also:Man . Their See also:object was to vindicate for See also:altruism, or the disinterested care and compassion of animals for each other, an important See also:part in effecting " the survival of the fittest," a thesis previously maintained by See also:Professor See also:John See also:Fiske . Drummond's See also:health failed shortly after-wards, and he died on the rrth of See also:March 1897 . His See also:character was full of See also:charm . His writings were too nicely adapted to the needs of his own See also:day to justify the expectation that they would See also:long survive it, but few men exercised more religious See also:influence in their own See also:generation, especially on See also:young men .

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