Educated at Edinburgh University, Drummond excelled in mathematics and the physical sciences. He then entered the Free Church of Scotland and studied for the ministry. In 1877, he became a lecturer on natural science and in 1883 published Natural Law in the Spiritual World. His book was an enormous success and his fame spread. He visited Africa at the invitation of the Africa Lakes Company in 1883. In 1890, he visited Australia and gave a lecture tour in America in 1893, where he delivered the Lowell lectures in Boston. In 1894, these lectures were collected and published as The Ascent of Man. His health began to deteriorate in 1895 and he died in 1897 after a long and painful malady. His other works include The Greatest Thing in the World (1880), Pax Vobiscum (1890), A Life for a Life & Other Addresses (1893), The Ideal Life (1897) and The New Evangelism (1899 posthumous).
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