Volume 8 of this landmark edition follows Peirce from May 1890 throughJuly 1892 -- a period of turmoil as his career unraveled at the U.S. Coast andGeodetic Survey. The loss of his principal source of income meant the beginning ofpermanent penury and a lifelong struggle to find gainful employment. His keyachievement during these years is his celebrated Monist metaphysical project, whichconsists of five classic articles on evolutionary cosmology. Also included arereviews and essays from The Nation in which Peirce critiques Paul Carus, WilliamJames, Auguste Comte, Cesare Lombroso, and Karl Pearson, and takes part in a famousdispute between Francis E. Abbot and Josiah Royce. Peirce's short philosophicalessays, studies in non-Euclidean geometry and number theory, and his only knownexperiment in prose fiction complete his production during theseyears.Peirce's 1883-1909 contributions to the Century Dictionaryform the content of volume 7 which is forthcoming.