The spirit of research / by T. Brailsford Robertson ; edited by Jane W. Robertson.

Adelaide : F. W. Preece & Sons, 1931.

xi, 210 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : portrait ; 20 cm

Collection of essays and addresses, most of which have appeared previously in scientific periodical or university journals

The spirit of research.--Science as a vehicle of education.--The cash value of scientific research.--The historical continuity of science.--The strategies of scientific investigation.--Science and the war.--The place of scientific research in the life that lies before us.--Consciousness and the sense of time.--The mechanistic origin of finalism.--The life and work of a mechanistic philosopher, Jacques Loeb.--The external inheritance of man.--Who are "the fit" in social evolution?