INDEX

Abstemiousness, D.’s, [182].
Accuracy, D. and, in observation, [21];
in statement, [22], [23];
mathematical, and instruments, [24];
his hobby, [59].
Achievement, motives, [96-99];
D.’s attitude, [99-101].
Adams, Henry, effect of evolution on, [242].
Æsthetics, observation in, [11];
D.’s attitude, [137];
effect of scientific spirit, [272], [275].
Agassiz, Alexander, on D.’s coral-reef theory, [65];
on D. and candor, [105].
Agassiz, Louis, and evolution, [103].
Agnosticism, as dogma, [283], [284].
Agriculture, revolution, [11].
Ambition, as trait, D. on it, [96].
Amiel, H. F., self-dissection, [280].
Animals, D.’s love, [135], [188].
Appearance, D.’s, [168].
Appreciation, D.’s trait, [79], [80];
element in scientific spirit, [263].
Architecture, D.’s attitude, [139].
Ardor, element in scientific spirit, [264].
Argument, D.’s attitude, [74].
Aristotle, on experiment, [56];
and evolution, [84].
Arnold, Matthew, on Goethe, [271].
Art, D.’s attitude, [138-40];
evolution and realism, [225].
Barnacles, D.’s study, [26].
Bates, H. W., and nature, [12].
Beagle, D.’s voyage, [4].
Bell, Thomas, and D., [173].
Bergson, Henri, and evolution, [235].
Bryce, Lord, on D. and Gladstone, [133];
on D.’s appearance, [168].
Buckle, H. T., D. on, [143].
Buffon, Comte de, and evolution, [84], [119].
Burbank, Luther, and experiment, [57];
and future life, [228].
Butler, Samuel, D.’s controversy, [108];
and religion and evolution, [237].
Byron, Lord, and nature, [152].
Candor, D.’s trait, [77-79], [105].
Castle, W. E., on experiment, [57].
Caution, element in scientific spirit, [245].
See also Deduction.
Chambers, Robert, and evolution, [84].
Children. See Family.
Civil War, D.’s interest, [134].
Collecting, D. and, [43].
Comparison, D.’s trait, [31].
Conklin, E. G., on natural selection, [125];
on evolution and religion, [239].
Conscience, activity of D.’s, [160].
Controversy, over evolution, [6];
D.’s attitude, [76], [77], [107].
Conversation, D.’s, [170].
Coolidge, Calvin, on politics and religion, [222].
Copernicus, and orthodoxy, [209].
Coral reefs, D.’s theory, [64-66].
Correspondence, character of D.’s, [78], [145].
Cowper, William, and nature, [149], [150].
Creation, desire, [98].
Criticism, D.’s attitude, [104-17].
Cruelty, D.’s hatred, [135].
Curiosity, element of scientific spirit, [248], [249];
Sainte-Beuve and Goethe and, [268], [270].
Darwin, Charles R., influence, [3];
character, [3];
birth, [3];
ancestry, [3];
education, [4], [45];
interest in outdoor life and sport, [4], [174-76];
Beagle voyage, [4], [14];
marriage, home and children, family life, [4], [196-201];
invalidism, patience, [5], [36], [177-83], [193-95];
tomb, [6];
scientific observation, on it, [6], [14-16];
and self-analysis, [16];
study of expression, [17-19], [198];
promotion of observation by others, [19], [23];
accuracy, [21-24], [59];
and detail, [25];
industry and patience, [27-30], [252];
system, [30], [31], [183];
element of comparison, [31];
difficulties and discomforts of outdoor observation, [32-34];
sympathy, and observation, [34-36];
effect of physical limitations, [36], [37];
and collecting, [43];
and observation and deduction, [44-46], [250];
on Spencer, [47], [78];
and deduction and induction, [46-48];
mental power and activity, [48];
control over theorizing, [51], [54], [55], [115], [124];
on excessive theorizing, [52], [53], [254];
and experiment, [56-62];
exposition, style, caution, [62-64], [143-45], [212];
on coral reefs, [64-66];
on sexual selection, [66], [67];
on pangenesis, [68];
and metaphysics, [69];
doubt and self-criticism, [70], [71];
and objections and difficulties, [71], [72], [113-15];
and revision, [73], [118];
and argument, [74-76];
and controversy, [76], [107];
and mistakes, [77];
candor, [77-79], [105];
as correspondent, [78], [145];
appreciation and tolerance, [79], [80], [262], [263];
and ignorance and deceptive reasoning, [80-82];
and motives of achievement, [99-101];
Butler controversy, [108];
humility, [110], [258], [260];
success of books, [122];
fame, [126];
atrophy of other interests, [128-30], [272], [275];
and history, [130], [131];
and politics, [131-34];
and Civil War, [134];
and slavery, [134];
and animals, hatred of cruelty, [135], [188];
and vivisection, [136];
and social questions, [136], [137];
and æsthetics, [137-40];
and music, [140-42];
and fiction, [145];
and poetry, [146-48];
and natural beauty, [148], [153-56];
and religion and conscience, [156-63];
personal appearance, [168];
hospitality, [169];
conversation, [170-72];
fun, [172];
and society, [173], [178];
humanity, [176];
abstemiousness and indulgence, [182];
regimen, [183]; finances, [184-86];
generosity, [186];
manner and temperament, [188];
and his father, [190]; as fiancé, [190-92];
as husband, wife’s care, [192-94];
friendship and services, [201-07];
impartiality, [256];
on scientific ardor, [264];
on love of truth, [266].
See also Evolution.
Darwin, Emma (Wedgwood), [4];
and theater, [139];
and D.’s religious attitude, [157];
D. as fiancé, [190-92],
and as husband, [192];
as wife, and D.’s invalidism, [193-96];
and D.’s theories, [218].
Darwin, Erasmus, [4];
and evolution, [84], [85];
controversy over biography, [108].
Deduction, observation and, [44-46];
and induction, [46-48];
D.’s attitude, [46], [47];
D.’s power, [48-50], [69];
his control over it, [51], [54], [55], [115], [124];
D. on excessive, [52], [53];
types of thinkers, [53-55];
experiment and, [55];
D. and experiment, [56-62];
D. and exposition, [62-64];
illustrations of his theorizing, [64-69];
D. and doubt, [70], [71];
D. and objections, [71], [72];
his trait of revision, [73];
D. and arguments, [74-77];
D. and mistakes, [77];
D. and deception in reason, [80-82], [115].
See also Observation; Scientific spirit.
Democracy, evolution and, [223].
Details, D. and, [25].
De Vries, Hugo, imitation theory, [124].
Discipline, D. and his children, [197].
Doubt, value, [70];
in D.’s logical processes, [70], [71];
aspects of agnosticism, [203-05].
See also Religion.
Drink, D. and, [182].
Earthworms, D.’s study, [21], [42], [151].
Education, D.’s, [4];
training in deduction, [45].
Eliot, C. W., effect of evolution on, [246].
Emerson, R. W., on evolution, [42], [234];
and nature, [151].
Empedocles, and evolution, [84].
Ethics, D. and morality, [160];
and evolution, [213-15], [219], [222], [231].
Evolution, idea and D.’s explanation of process, [4];
controversy, [6];
acceptance of principle, [6], [121], [125];
effect on study of natural history, [40-43];
as term, [83];
before Darwin, [83-85], [101], [233];
theory of inheritance of acquired characters, D. and, [85], [87];
D. and predecessors, [85-88];
beginning of D.’s interest, [88];
his development of theory of natural selection, [89-91];
his statement of theory, [91];
his realization of influence of theory, [92], [209-13];
his years of study and experiment, [92], [93];
Wallace and presentation of theory, [93], [94];
D. and Wallace, [94], [95];
Origin of Species, its effect, [96];
D.’s attitude toward, as achievement, [99-101], [122-24];
attacks by scientists, [102];
religious attacks, [103];
D. and attacks, [104-08];
D. and other workers, [109];
D. and difficulties, [111-17];
D.’s revisions, [118];
modification of theory, [119-21], [124];
promulgators, [121];
effect on theology, [209];
D.’s caution in statement, [212];
D. and ethical standards under theory, [213];
D. and effect on belief, [215], [216];
D. and belief in God, [216-18];
and atheism, [218-20];
as typifying scientific influence on life, [221];
influence on politics, [222-25];
and realism, [225];
and hell and heaven, [227];
and popular belief in God and worship, [229], [230];
and substitute for sin, [231-33];
philosophical, [233-35];
clerical harmonizing with religion, [236];
Fundamentalists and, [237], [282];
scientific harmonizing, [237-39];
and individualism in religious belief, [239], [240];
future adjustment with religion, [240];
destructive spiritual effect, [241-47];
self-contradictions in reason, [280].
Experiment, D.’s devotion, [5], [56];
position, [55];
equipment, [57];
D.’s thoroughness, [58];
impersonality, [58];
accuracy, repetition, [59];
recording, errors and successes, [61].
Exposition, D.’s power, [62-64];
illustrations, [64-69].
Expression, D.’s study, [17-19].
Eye, and evolutionary theory, [112].
Fabre, J. H., and nature, [12].
Fame, as motive of achievement, [96-101].
Family, D. and father’s memory, [190];
D. as fiancé, [190-92];
husband and wife, [192-96];
children, training, [196-201];
their assistance, [200].
Farrer, Sir Thomas, on D.’s detailed observation, [26].
Fichte, J. H. von, and evolution, [233].
Fiction, D.’s attitude, [145].
Financial condition, D.’s, [184];
his attitude and care, [185];
his generosity, [186].
Finney, C. G., on revival, [230].
Fiske, John, and evolution, [122], [241].
France, Anatole, effect of evolution on, [242].
Friendship, D.’s trait, [201], [202];
his influence over friends, [202];
his dependence, [203];
his services to friends, [204-07].
Fun, D.’s trait, [172].
Fundamentalism, attacks on evolution, [103], [282];
ethical attitude, [232];
theological attitude, [237].
Gautier, Théophile, on observation, [7];
as poet, [11].
Generosity, D.’s trait, [186].
George, Henry D. and Progress and Poverty, [137].
Gladstone, W. E., and D., [133].
God, D.’s attitude, [164-67];
influence of evolution on belief, [216-18], [229];
thirst for, [285].
Goethe, J. W. von, on repetitions, [59];
on doubt, [70];
on mistakes, [77];
and evolution, [85];
and poetry, [148];
on love of truth, [265];
and scientific spirit, [270], [271];
pessimism, [274];
on active ignorance, [279].
Gould, George M., on D.’s invalidism, [180].
Grant Duff, Sir M. E., on D., [182].
Gray, Asa, on D.’s observation, [14];
on D. as thinker, [49];
relations with D., [110];
and evolution, [121], [238].
Häckel, Ernst, and D., [110];
and evolution, [122];
atheism, [219].
Hartmann, K. R. E. von, and evolution, [233].
Hegel, G. W. F., type, [53];
and evolution, [233].
Hell, obsolete, [227].
History, D. and, [130], [131].
Homer, on self-ignorance, [282].
Hooker, Sir Joseph, on Darwin-Wallace paper, [94];
and D., [101], [110].
Hospitality, D.’s, [169].
Humanity, and study of natural history, [40-43], [136];
Sainte-Beuve’s study, [267], [268].
Humility, D.’s trait, [110];
and scientific spirit, [257-61].
Huxley, T. H., on D. and detailed observation, [26];
on D.’s industry, [27];
and induction, [46];
on D.’s mental processes, [62];
on D.’s candor, [79];
on effect of Origin of Species, [96];
and Bishop of Oxford’s attack, [103];
restraint of D., [108];
on D. and adverse suggestions, [115];
and promulgation of D.’s theory, [121];
on D.’s style, [144];
relations with D., [203-05];
on influence of D.’s appreciation, [206];
and religion, [219];
on D.’s impartiality, [256].
Ibsen, Henrik, effect of evolution on, [241].
Ignorance, realization and scientific spirit, [257], [283].
Imagination. See Deduction.
Immortality, D.’s attitude, [163];
effect of evolution, [215].
Impartiality, element in scientific spirit, [255];
Sainte-Beuve and, [268].
Induction, and deduction, [46-48].
See also Deduction.
Industry, D.’s, [27];
element in scientific spirit, [251].
Inheritance of acquired characters, Lamarck’s theory, [85], [90];
D.’s attitude toward, [87], [119], [120].
Instruments, D.’s faith, [25].
Instinct in practical life, [278], [279].
Interests, absorption and atrophy, [128-30], [272].
Invalidism, D.’s, [5], [36], [177];
his attitude toward it, [178], [179], [194];
cause, [179-81];
Mrs. D.’s care, [193-96].
James, William, and evolution, [234].
Jeffries, Richard, and nature, [12].
Jonson, Ben, on observation, [7];
on self-ignorance, [282].
Kingsley, Charles, on evolutionary theory, [121];
on D.’s conversation, [171].
Knowledge, and observation, [38-40];
and wisdom, [44].
Krause, Ernst, biography of Erasmus Darwin, [108].
Lamarck, Jean de, evolutionary theory, [85], [90], [119], [120];
D.’s attitude, [86].
Land question, D. and, [136].
Leibnitz, Baron von, and gravity, [257].
Leopardi, Giacomo, pessimism, [238], [245].
Literature, D.’s attitude, [143], [145-48];
D.’s style, [143-45];
effect of evolution, [225-27].
Linnæan Society, Darwin-Wallace paper, [94].
Lodge, Sir Oliver, and science and spiritualism, [238].
Love, D.’s valuation, [206].
See also Family; Friendship.
Lubbock, Sir John, on debt to D., [202].
Lucretius, type, [54];
scientific ardor, [265].
Lyell, Sir Charles, on controversy, [76];
and evolution, [84]; and D., [101], [110];
on D. and ‘remorse,’ [211].
McDougall, William, on inheritance of acquired characters, [85].
Maine de Biran, self-dissection, [280].
Manner, D.’s, [188].
Marriage of cousins, D. and, [136].
Mendel, Gregor, experiments, [124].
Milton, John, D.’s appreciation, [146].
Missing links in evolutionary theory, [113].
Missionaries, D.’s attitude, [159].
Mistakes, D.’s attitude, [77].
Mivart, St. G. J., and evolution and religion, [238].
Montesquieu, on study, [277].
Moody, D. L., absorption of interest, [129];
and prayer, [162];
and God, [167];
and hell and heaven, [227], [228].
Moore, Thomas, on children, [196].
Morality. See Ethics.
Morgan, Lloyd, and evolution, [235].
Music, D.’s attitude, [140-42].
Native, utilitarian and æsthetic observation, [10-13];
D. and appreciation, [148], [153-56];
elements of enjoyment, [149-53].
Natural selection, D.’s term and theory, [5], [90];
modification of theory, [119-21], [124].
See also Evolution.
Neuter insects, and evolutionary theory, [113].
Nietzsche, F. W., effect of evolution on, [241].
Norton, C. E., on D., [168], [170].
Objections, in D.’s logical processes, [71].
Observation, D.’s scientific trait, [6], [14], [19-21];
as general trait, [6-8];
by women, [8];
exclusive, [8];
of humanity, [9], [267], [268];
of nature, change in character, [10];
ulterior, [11];
æsthetic, [11];
delight, [12], [38], [148-54];
Thoreau, [13];
D.’s comments, [15];
D.’s general trait, [16];
his study of expression, [17-19];
D. and accuracy, [21];
accuracy in statement, [22-24];
D. and information from others, [19], [23];
mathematical, and instruments, [24];
detailed, [25];
D.’s industry and patience, [27-29];
need of patience, [29];
system, [30], [31];
comparison, [31];
difficulties and discomforts, [32-34];
and sympathy, [34-36];
effect of D.’s physical limitations, [36], [37];
knowledge as aid, [38-40];
effect of evolution on, [40-43].
See also Deduction; Scientific spirit.
Origin of Species, publication,
effect, [5], [96];
exposition, [63];
revisions, [73], [118];
success, [122].
Osborn, H. F., on D.’s observation, [14];
on D. and Lamarck, [87];
on D. and criticism, [105];
on D.’s change in attitude, [120];
on D.’s fame, [124];
on D.’s appearance, [168];
on ethical effect of evolution, [222].
Owen, Sir Richard, and evolution, [103], [107], [111].
Oxford, Bishop of, attack on evolution, [103].
Pangenesis, D.’s theory, [68].
Parker, G. H., on evolution, [125].
Pascal, Blaise, on man, [275].
Pasteur, Louis, and objections, [72];
scientific ardor, [265].
Patience, D.’s, [28];
element in scientific spirit, [29], [253].
Pearson, Karl, on D. and imagination, [51].
Pedantry, and scientific spirit, [257].
Perry, R. B., on evolution, [125].
Pessimism, and evolution, [233];
Sainte-Beuve’s, [272], [276];
Goethe’s, [274].
Philosophy, D. and self-analysis, [16];
D. and metaphysics, [69];
evolutionary, [233].
Poetry, D.’s attitude, [146-48];
Sainte-Beuve and, [268].
Politics, D. and, [131-33];
influence of evolution, [222].
Pragmatism, and evolution, [234].
Prayer, D.’s attitude, [161-63].
Primogeniture, D.’s attitude, [136].
Pugnacity, and scientific spirit, [261].
Realism, as fruit of evolution, [225].
Reason, and instinct, [277-79];
as agent of scientific spirit, [279];
evolutionary contradictions, [280], [282];
and attainment of truth, [281].
See also Deduction; Scientific spirit.
Religion, D.’s attitude, [156-67];
pre-Darwinian theology, [208];
and Copernicus’s speculations, [209];
theological effect of evolution, [209];
D.’s attitude toward effect, [209-13];
ethical standards under evolution, [213-15], [219];
evolution and belief in future life, [215], [216];
and belief in God, [216-18], [229];
and democracy, [223];
evolution and hell and heaven, [227], [228];
fundamentalism, [232], [237], [282];
clerical harmonizing with evolution, [236];
scientific harmonizing, [237-39];
egocentric versus ethnocentric, [239], [240];
persistence, [240];
thirst for God, [285].
Renan, J. E., effect of evolution on, [241].
Research, element in scientific spirit, [250].
Revision, D.’s trait, [73], [118];
element in scientific spirit, [255-57].
Royer-Collard, Paul, on facts, [44].
Ruskin, John, on vision of artists, [11].
St.-Hilaire, Auguste, and evolution, [85].
Sainte-Beuve, C. A., observation of humanity, [9], [267], [268];
type, [54];
on absorption of interest, [128];
and poetry, [148], [268];
and scientific spirit, [266-70];
concreteness, [269];
on Goethe, [271];
pessimism and sexual immorality, [272-74], [76].
Schelling, F. W. J. von, and evolution, [233].
Scherer, Edmond, on tolerance, [262];
on man, [275].
Schopenhauer, Arthur, and evolution, [233].
Scientific spirit, motives of achievements, [96-101], [248], [249];
research, [250];
industry, [251-53];
patience, [253];
caution, [254];
flexibility and impartiality, [255];
lack of pedantry, [257-59];
and human nature, [259], [262];
humility, [260];
tolerance, [261];
and pugnacity, [261];
appreciation, [263];
ardor, [264];
illustrations: Sainte-Beuve, [266-70];
Goethe, [270], [271];
and spiritual blight, [272-76];
inadequacy, [277];
and instinctive action, [278], [279];
reason as agent, [279];
and self-dissection, [279];
and self-contradictions, [280];
and unattainable truth, [281-83];
and ignorance and hope, [283-85].
See also Deduction; Observation.
Scott, Sir Walter, industry, [252].
Sedgwick, Adam, and D., [205].
Self-dissection, as betrayal of scientific spirit, [279].
Sénancour, É. P. de, on nature, [153];
self-dissection, [280].
Sexual selection, D.’s theory, [66], [67].
Shakespeare, William, vitality, [126];
D.’s opinion, [147].
Shaw, G. B., and religion and evolution, [237].
Shelley, P. B., and nature, [152].
Sin, effect of evolution on belief, [231].
Slavery, D.’s antipathy, [134].
Smoking, D. and, [182].
Snuff, D.’s indulgence, [183].
Socialism, and evolution, [224].
Society, D. and, [173], [178].
Spencer, Herbert, and ‘survival of the fittest,’ [5], [91];
D. on, [47], [78];
type, [54];
and universal evolution, [121], [219].
Spinoza, Baruch, type, [53].
Spiritualism, and evolution, [238].
Sport, D.’s attitude, [174-76].
Statement, accuracy, [22-24].
Stephen, Leslie, on D., [169].
Sterne, Laurence, on observation, [7];
on doing, [277].
Study. See Observation.
Survival of the fittest. Spencer’s term, [5], [91].
Sympathy, and observation, [34-38].
System, D. and, [30], [183].
Theater, D.’s attitude, [139].
Theology. See Religion.
Thoreau, H. D., and observation of nature, [13];
on knowledge as aid to observation, [39];
and deduction, [48].
Thrift, self-contradiction, [280].
Tolerance, D.’s trait, [79], [80];
element in scientific spirit, [261-63].
Tolstoi, Leo, effect of evolution on, [241].
Torrey, Bradford, on observation, [8].
Truth, instinct as element in scientific spirit, [265], [275];
Goethe’s characteristic, [270];
unattainable, [281-83];
ignorance and hope, [283-85].
Turner, Sir William, on D. and information, [24].
Twain, Mark, effect of evolution on, [243].
Vivisection, D.’s attitude, [136].
Voltaire, and tolerance, [261];
on study, [277].
Wallace, A. R., on collecting, [43];
and D.’s sexual-selection theory, [66], [67];
and presentation of evolutionary theory, [93], [94];
relations with D., [94], [95];
and spiritualism, [238].
Water cure, D.’s subjection to, [181].
Wedgwood, Emma, Mrs. Darwin, [4].
Weisman, August, on deduction, [70];
and evolution, [122], [218].
Wells, H. G., and religion and evolution, [237].
Westminster Abbey, D.’s tomb, [6].
White, Gilbert, and nature, [12].
Whitehead, A. N., on D.’s caution, [125];
and evolution, [235], [246];
on scientific flexibility, [255].
Wiesner, Julius, courtesy, [262].
Wisdom, and knowledge, [44].
See also Deduction.
Wordsworth, William, and nature, [151].
Zola, Émile, as realist, [226], [241].