The Kingdom of Man

"The Kingdom of Man" by Sir Edwin Ray Lankester is founded on three discourses by the author. The first, entitled 'Nature's Insurgent Son,' is meant to exhibit in brief the 'Kingdom of Man,' to shew that there is undue neglect in the taking over of that possession by mankind, and to urge upon our Universities the duty of acting the leading part in removing that neglect. The second is an account of the progress made in the last quarter of a century towards the assumption of his kingship by a slowly-moving Man.

The third is a more detailed account of recent attempts to deal with the Sleeping Sickness of tropical Africa and furnishes an example of one of the innumerable directions in which Man brings down disaster on his head and is painfully forced to the conclusion that knowledge of Nature must be sought.