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See also:GEORGE See also: In 1890 he See also:left London and settled at See also:Oxford, where he founded a lecture similar to the " Rede " of Cam-bridge, to be delivered annually on a scientific or See also:literary topic . In 1893 he published the first See also:part of Darwin and after Darwin, a See also:work dealing with the development of the theory of organic evolution, and based on lectures, which he delivered as Ful]erian professor of See also:physiology at the Royal Institution in 1888-91; a second part appeared in 1895 after his See also:death, which occurred at Oxford on the 23rd of May 1894 . Romanes was awarded the See also:Burney See also:prize at See also:Cambridge in 1873 for an See also:essay on " See also:Christian See also:Prayer and See also:General See also:Laws." Five years later, under the See also:pseudonym " Physicus," he issued A Candid Examination of See also:Theism, in which he showed himself out of See also:accord with orthodox religious beliefs . In 1882 he published an See also:article on the " See also:Fallacy of See also:Materialism," and in his Rede lecture of 1885 he appeared as a monist . Subsequently his views again changed in the direction of orthodoxy, as is shown by his Thoughts on See also:Religion, written shortly before his death and published in 1895 . His Life and Letters, by his widow, appeared in 1896 . |
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