Evolution

by F. B. Jevons

INDEX

A

• Abstraction: [193], [198], [199], [203], [242], [255]
• Action: [65], [68], [70]
• Adaptation: [21], [25]-[30], [186], [204], [206], [219], [221], [252] (see Environment)
• Agnosticism: [36], [165]-[76], [202], [218], [237]
• Anthropomorphism: [51], [52], [55]
• Ape and tiger, The: [28], [30], [31], [40], [276]
• Appearance: [67], [266] (see Purpose)
• Apprehension: [57], [58], [63]-[70], [295]
• Approximation to the ideal: [206], [208], [213], [222], [229], [252], [256] (see Ideals, Progress, Purpose)
• Art, Artist: [207], [209], [244]
• Assumption: [164]-[180], [185], [187], [188], [191]-[6], [221], [222]

B

• Becoming: [78]
• Being: [78]
• Belief: [215], [221] (see Will to believe)
• Berkeley, Bp.: [62], [63], [289]-[95]
• Bernard, Claude: [90]
• Biology: [94], [96], [249]-[51]

C

• Causation, Law of: [106] (see Universal causation)
• Causes: [79], [117], [181], [194], [196], [197], [208]-[10], [224], [244]
• Chance: [258], [259], [260]
• Chemical combination: [89], [90], [92], [98]
• Chemistry: [86], [94]
• Chess: [163]-[83], [268]
• Common consciousness of mankind: [164], [196], [197], [208], [244]
• Common experience of mankind: [74]
• Common faith of mankind: [165]-[72], [184]-[202], [204], [222], [223], [229], [246], [247]
• Common sense: [78], [81], [164]-[8], [173], [229], [249], [253], [289]
• Comparative method: [7]
  • —Sciences: [105]
• Conscience: [52], [84]
• Consciousness: [63]-[5], [70], [84], [166], [182], [198], [201], [253] (see States of consciousness)
• Continuity, The law of: [18], [104], [121], [133], [200], [201], [271]
• Cosmic process: [17], [21], [22], [26], [28]-[30], [32]-[5], [51], [53], [60], [81], [222], [224], [284]-[6], [288] (cf. Ethical process)

D

• Darwin: [7], [261]
• Demonology: [191]
• Design: [138], [140], [264], [267]
• Diversity of Nature: [125], [126], [132], [133] (cf. Uniformity of Nature)
• Divine Providence: [36], [37] (see Purpose, Divine)

E

• Environment: [25], [28], [219], [221], [222], [232], [252], [263] (see Adaptation),
  • (social) [228], [280]
• Ethical process, The: [28], [31], [33]-[5], [47], [48], [60], [191], [219], [221], [286], [287] (cf. Cosmic process)
• Ethics: [87]
• Evidence: [138]-[62], [188], [189], [190], [191], [198], [199], [218], [253]
• Evil: [226], [227], [228], [287], [288]
• Existence, Actual and potential: [292], [293]
• Experience: [6], [64], [67], [145], [146], [153], [192], [197], [198], [202], [222], [223], [251], [253], [256], [261]
  • —(spiritual): [199], [206], [226]
• Explanation: [75], [126], [241] (see also Science)

F

• Faith: [14], [16], [39], [81], [142], [143], [151]-[65], [185], [186], [187], [198], [203]-[37], [246], [247], [273]
• Faith of science: [188], [198], [287]
• First principles: [94]
• Fraser, Professor: [289]
• Freedom: [108], [120]-[37], [168], [179], [184]-[96], [218], [224], [227], [247], [252], [261] (cf. Necessity, Will)
• French Revolution: [4]

G

• Golden Age: [3]

H

• Happiness: [24], [30]
• Homogeneous, Instability of: [98]
• Human nature (see Uniformity)
• Huxley, Professor: [24], [28], [30], [33], [39], [120], [144], [149]-[59], [173], [204], [205], [208], [213], [219], [247], [286]-[8]

I

• Idealism: [38]-[59]
  • —(subjective): [57], [62], [63], [64], [289]-[95]
• Ideals: [30]-[2], [34], [41], [54], [74], [164]-[84], [194], [195], [204]-[36], [241]-[73], [280] (see Moral ideal, Truth)
• Identity: [201]
• Illusion: [17], [22], [23]-[5], [44], [45], [47], [57], [60], [65], [74], [112], [136], [164], [165], [227], [243], [246], [247], [256], [260]
• Independence: [201]
• Inhumanity: [33]
• Instinct: [236]
• Interaction: [68]

K

• Kirchoff: [80]
• Knowledge: [70], [96]

L

• Life: [88], [94], [182]
• Lotze: [82]

M

• Materialism: [17]
• Matter and Mind: [85], [88], [94], [133], [134]
  • (psychological theory of), [295]
• Matter and Motion: [15], [17], [19]-[21], [32], [35], [36]-[49], [100], [140], [168], [180]
  • —The redistribution of: [72]-[99]
• Mechanical composition: [89], [92], [98]
• Mechanical theory, The: [79]-[93], [181], [182], [205], [209], [211]
• Mertz, Dr.: [80]
• Metaphysics: [79], [82], [83], [84], [107]-[13], [123], [254] (cf. Philosophy)
• Mill, J. S.: [63], [75], [76], [84], [89], [90], [149], [239], [292], [293], [295]
• Mind: [84]
  • —(see Matter)
• Miracles: [188], [190]
• Moral consciousness: [50], [198], [204], [206]
• Moral ideal: [43], [184], [185], [191], [193], [205], [221], [242], [244] (see Ideals)
• Moral judgment: [41]
• Moral laws: [43], [48], [196], [200], [201], [226]
• Moral obligation: [189], [198], [200], [209]
• Morality: [19], [34], [49], [50], [56], [69], [74], [159], [161], [162], [181], [186], [191], [218], [221], [223], [225], [243], [244]
• Mythology: [3]

N

• Nature: [53]
  • —Cosmic: [37]
  • —Ethical: [33], [37]
  • —Laws of: [76]
  • —Uniformity of: [102]-[35], [144]-[50], [152], [161], [165]-[77], [187], [202], [215], [220], [226], [272]
• Necessity: [17], [100]-[137], [164], [178], [179], [182], [190], [191], [240], [247], [259], [260], [263]
  • —Metaphysical: [112], [113], [116], [126], [257]
  • —Scientific: [112] (see also Freedom, Will)

O

• Object (of desire): [56], [58]
  • —(material): [61], [70], [74], [81], [100], [102], [103], [171]-[5], [184]-[203]
• Objective truth: [35], [41], [200]
• Obligation, Moral: [12]
• Optimism: [1]-[13], [15]-[18], [20], [21], [30], [74], [164]-[8], [185]-[203], [223], [247]
• Organism, Animal: [10], [11], [12]
  • —Social: [10], [266], [267], [268] (see Society)
• Origin: [209], [212]

P

• Perception: [61], [62], [65] (see Sensations)
• Permanence: [63], [200], [289], [291]-[5]
• Personality: [52], [53], [66]
• Pessimism: [24]-[37], [39], [43]-[7], [74], [164], [168], [187]-[96], [247], [273]
• Philosophy: [70], [74], [81], [163]-[70], [173], [174], [177], [225], [276]
• Political economy: [124], [270]
• Positive philosophy: [165], [168]
• Physiology: [90]
• Pre-history: [7]
• Primitive man: [7]
• Progress: [7], [9], [12], [13], [14], [22], [23], [25]-[8], [30], [78], [164], [203]-[37], [222], [252], [254], [256], [270] (see Approximation, Ideals)
• Psychology: [83], [86], [87], [100]
• Purpose: [180], [181], [182], [192], [199], [209], [211], [212], [224], [226], [238]-[72], [280]
  • —Divine: [181], [230], [235], [270]
  • —Semblance of: [257], [266], [268]

R

• Reaction: [68]
• Reality, The Real: [17], [20], [35], [46]-[58], [60]-[71], [72], [73], [74], [77], [98], [165], [166], [171], [172], [173], [175], [184], [200], [201], [212], [214], [223], [226], [247], [295]
• Religion: [16], [18], [123], [142], [144], [148], [161], [162], [174], [181], [218], [223], [242], [243], [244], [273]
• Religious consciousness: [52], [196], [198], [199], [206]
• Retrogression: [26], [27], [32], [205], [206], [209], [219], [225]
• Revelation: [93], [94], [207], [213], [214], [245], [246]
  • —Progressive, [178], [204], [208]

S

• Science: the base of optimism, [15]
  • —not religion, [18]
  • —is man's notion of what happens, [49]
  • —and reality, [50]-[2], [59], [61], [72], [73]
  • —finds reason, does not make it, [53], [68], [69]
  • —ideal of, [54], [55], [220]-[2]
  • —based on experience, [70], [223], [253]
  • —purely descriptive, [75]-[80], [192]
  • —imperfectly descriptive, [241]
  • —mechanical theory of, [79]-[85]
  • —assumptions of, [103]-[5], [169]-[83], [196]
  • —describes sequences and co-existences, [105]-[8]
  • —and necessity, [110], [113]-[18], [125], [126], [132]
  • —and theory of design, [138]-[42], [267]
  • —and faith, [143]-[62], [185], [223]
  • —and positivism, [165]
  • —is abstract, [194]-[6], [242]
  • —incomplete as explanation, [232], [238]-[40]
  • —laws of, [48], [108], [124], [240], [241], [242], [252]
• Self-determination: [128], [130], [131], [137], [171], [174], [178], [218], [261], [264]
• Self-will: [229]
• Sensations: [57], [61], [62], [63], [64], [65], [66], [68], [69], [70], [291], [292], [294] (see Perception)
• Sense-phenomena: [102], [103], [107], [134], [175], [198], [201]
• Seth, Professor: [78]
• Social contract: [278]
• Society (an organism): [9], [96], [250], [256], [265] (see Organism)
• Sociology: [8], [83], [90], [92], [96], [250], [251], [265]
• Space: [82], [85], [87], [94], [97], [102] (see Matter and motion)
• Spencer, Mr. H.: [9], [59], [66], [74], [77], [80], [94], [96], [205], [247], [265]
• States of consciousness: [57], [58], [65], [66], [67], [68], [69], [166] (see Consciousness)
• Struggle for existence: [10], [11], [13], [20], [25], [28], [29], [160], [249], [250], [251], [257], [270], [274], [276], [279]
• Survival of the fittest: [13], [20], [26], [32], [185], [186], [203], [230], [231], [232], [236], [237], [251]
  • —of the faithful: [160]

T

• Teleology: [205], [236] (see Causes, Purpose)
• Theology: [141], [146]
• Things: see Objects
• Truth: [40], [50], [54], [55], [56], [57], [58], [208], [217], [220] (see also Ideals)

U

• Unfaith: [225]
• Uniformity of the Divine Nature: [202], [206], [229]
• Uniformity of human nature: [103], [105], [107], [118], [121], [202], [229], [272]
• Uniformity of Nature (see Nature)
  • —of necessity: [107], [111]
  • —of will: [107], [111]
• Universal causation: [102], [107], [111], [119], [125], [135], [150] (see Causation, Causes)
• Unknowable, The: [18], [20]-[2], [35], [36], [37], [48], [57], [58], [61], [70], [72], [166], [247]
• Unreal, The: [70]

V

• Value: [233], [244]

W

• Waste: [235]
• Will: [97]-[9], [111]-[34], [158], [161], [162], [168], [172], [175], [182], [188], [190], [192], [201], [215]-[25], [255], [261], [264], [268] (cf. Freedom, Necessity)
• Will to believe: [216], [222]

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