[392] Eph. ii. 22.
[393] Eph. iii. 19.
[394] 1 Cor. vii. 19.
ABORTION, neutralization of working bees an act of, [250]
Accessory touches, varying Buffon on, [92]
Accident, many of our best thoughts come thoughtlessly, [48], [384]
—— profiting by, [51], [53]
—— and discovery of theory connecting meteors with comets, [53]
—— shaking the bag to see what will come out, [53]
—— effects of, transmitted to offspring, Dr. Erasmus Darwin, [224]
—— and design, the line between these hard to draw, [384]
Accidental variations thrown for as with dice, [3]
Accumulation of variations, C. Darwin deals with the, and not with the origin of, [340], [341]
—— of small divergencies, Buffon on the, [103]
Accurate, survival of fittest more accurate than Nat. Sel. and sometimes equally convenient, [9], [354], [365]
Act of Parliament, Natural Selection compared to a certain kind of, [358]
Age, old, the phenomena of, [67], [204], [381]
Aggregation, the spirit of the age tends towards, [397], [398]
Ahead, no organism sees very far, [44], [48], [54], [384]
Aldrovandus, Buffon on the learned, [93]
Alive, when we must not say that an animal is alive (to be retracted), [279]
Allen, Grant, on 'Evolution, Old and New,' [386-388]
—— on the decay of criticism, [388]
—— calls Evolutionism "an almost exclusively English impulse," [393]
Alternations of fat and lean years, Buffon on, [125]
Amœba, the, did not conceive the idea of an eye and work towards it, [43], [44], [384]
Analogies, false, all words are apt to turn out to be, [365]
Animals, contracts among, Dr. E. Darwin on, [205]
Ape, the, and man, [90]
Apes and monkeys, Buffon on, [153]
—— and children fall on all-fours at the approach of danger, [312]
Apparentibus, de non, et non existentibus, &c., [36]
Appearances, rather superficial, our only guide to classification, [34], [35], [36], [198], [204]
Appetency, Paley's argument against the view that structures have been developed through, [22], [45]
Aristides, C. Darwin as just as, [363]
Aristotle denied teleology, [4]
Artificial and real foot, differences between, [25]
Asceticism, virtue errs on the side of excess rather than on that of, [35]
Ass, the, and horse, Buffon's pregnant passage on their relationship, [80], [90], [91], [100], [101], [142], [143], [155], [164], [311]
Authority, a hard thing to weigh, [253]
BACON, F., on evolution, [69]
Balzac, quotation from, on memory and instinct, [67]
Bark, Erasmus Darwin's theory of, [208]
Beaver, trowel incorporated into the beaver's organism, [8]
Bees, neutralization of working, an act of abortion, [250]
Beetles, Madeira, Lamarck and C. Darwin's views of their winglessness compared, [373], [380]
Begin, How could the eye begin? [46], [47]
Beginnings, of complex structures, a difficulty in the way of natural selection, [21], [22]
—— difficulty of accounting for, [46], [47]
—— a matter of conjecture and inference, [48]
Behind, more moral to be behind the age than in front of it, [401]
Best, making the best of whatever power one has, [50]
Bird, how birds became web-footed, [48], [49], [51]
—— a, will modify its nest a little, under altered circumstances, [55]
—— Buffon on, [170], &c.
—— nests, Dr. Erasmus Darwin's failure to connect the power to make them with memory, [201], [203]
—— aquatic and wading, Lamarck on, [305]
Bishop, and Evêque, common derivation of, [355]
Blindfolded, we are so far, that we can see a few steps in front, but no more, [44]
—— us, C. Darwin has almost ostentatiously, [346]
Blindly, forces interacting blindly, [59]
Body and mind, Lamarck on, [338], [339], [341]
Brain, Lamarck had brain upon the brain, [36]
—— Buffon on the, [131], [133], &c.
Brevity may be the soul of wit, but, &c., [315]
Breeding, and feeding, [222]
Brown-Séquard, his experiments on guinea-pigs' legs, [303]
Buds, individuality of, Dr. Erasmus Darwin on the, [207], [208]
Buffalo, Buffon on the, [148], &c.
Buffon, profoundly superficial, [34]
—— plus il a su, plus il a pu, &c., [44]
—— dans l'animal il y a moins de jugement que de sentiment, [51]
—— ignorance concerning, [61]
—— memoir of, [74], &c.
—— on glory, genius, and style, [76], [77]
—— ironical character of his work and method (see Irony), [78], &c., [171]
—— on the ass, horse, and zebra, [80], [90], [91], [100], [101], [142], [143], [155], [164], [311]
—— would not play the part of Rousseau or Voltaire, [81]
—— Sir W. Jardine on, and the Sorbonne, [82]
—— regards all animal and vegetable life as from one common source, [90]
—— if a single species has ever been found under domestication, &c., [91]
—— on plaisanterie, and the learned Aldrovandus, [93], &c.
—— his compromise, [92]
—— accessory touches, [92]
—— "especially" the same, [96]
—— fluctuation of opinion an unfounded charge, [97], &c., [164]
—— on the accumulation of small divergencies, [103]
—— began preaching evolution almost on his first page, [104]
—— chapter on the dégénération des animaux, equivalent to "on descent with modification," [104], &c.
—— difference of opinion between him and Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, [105]
—— probably did not differ from Lamarck, [105]
—— on direct action of changed conditions, [105], [145], [147]
—— on man and the lower animals, [108]
—— on classification, [108], [109], [141]
—— on animals and plants, [109], [110]
—— on reason and instinct, [110], [115]
—— on final causes (the pig), [118], &c.
—— on hybridism, [117], [118]
—— rudimentary organs, [120]
—— on animals under domestication, [121], &c., [148]
—— deals with these early, as giving him the best opportunities for illustrating the theory of evolution, [276]
—— approaches natural selection in his "by some chance common enough in Nature," [122]
—— preaching on the hare when he should have preached on the rabbit out of pure love of mischief, [123]
—— resumption of feral characteristics, [123]
—— on the geometrical ratio of increase, [123], &c.
—— alternation of fat and lean years, [125]
—— equilibrium of Nature, [125]
—— "au réel," [126]
—— on violent death, [126]
—— on sensation, [126], &c.
—— on the interaction of organ and sense, [127]
—— the carnivora, [126]
—— his criterion of what name a thing is to bear, [127]
—— his criterion of perception and sensation, [127]
—— on the unity of the individual, [127], [128]
—— satirizes our habit of judging all things by our own standards, [129]
—— the diaphragm, [129]
—— on the stock and the diaphragm, [130]
—— distinction between perception and sensation, [129], [130]
—— on the meninges, [132]
—— on the brain, [131], [133], &c.
—— on scientific orthodoxy and mystification, [138]
—— on the relativity of science, [140]
—— on nomenclature and knowledge, [141]
—— on the genus felis, [143]
—— on the lion and the tiger, [143], [145]
—— on the animals of the old and new world, [145], &c.
—— on changed geographical distribution of land and water, [145], [164]
—— on extinct species, [146]
—— hates the new world, [146]
—— on heredity and habit, [148], [159], [160], [161], [162]
—— approaches Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, re the Buffalo, Camel, and Llama, [148], [160], [161]
—— on oneness of personality between parents and offspring, [151]
—— on the organic and inorganic, [153], &c.
—— on apes and monkeys, [153], &c.
—— on the causes or means of the transformation of species, [159], &c.
—— on generic (as well as specific) differences, [164]
—— on plants under domestication, [167]
—— on pigeons and fowls, [169]
—— on birds, [170], &c.
—— the assistance he rendered to Lamarck, [237], [258]
—— Isidore Geoffroy's failure to understand, [328]
—— Colonel, [75]
Bulk, a sine quâ non for success in literature or science, [315]
Bull running, Tutbury, and Erasmus Darwin, [187]
CAMEL, Buffon on the hereditary ills of the, [161]
Cant, and rudimentary organs, [38]
Captandum, all good things are done ad, [85]
Carnivora, Buffon on the, [126]
Carriage, Dr. Erasmus Darwin's, [181]
Cat, family, Buffon on the, [142], &c.
—— with a mane and long tail, [143]
Cataclysms, the good cells that get exterminated during the cataclysms of our own development, [75]
Catastrophes, Lamarck on, [277]
Causes, or "means," of modification, [301]
—— C. Darwin says that Buffon has not entered on the, [104], &c.
—— C. Darwin gets us into a fog about, [345], &c.
Change, under changed circumstances, Mr. Patrick Matthew on, [318]
Charity, the greatest of these is, [77]
Church, a, like a second chamber, [400]
—— the world better with than without, [400]
—— should be like the fly-wheel of a steam engine, [104]
Circonstances (see Conditions of Existence), Lamarck on, [268], [281]
Circumstance, suiting power, a, Mr. Patrick Matthew on, [318-321]
Classification, rather superficial appearances our best guide to, [34], [35], [36], [198], [204]
—— Buffon on, [108], [109], [141]
Clear, an ineradicable tendency to make things, [92]
Clifford, Professor, on "Design," [6], [7]
Climbing plants, the movements of, Dr. Erasmus Darwin on, [209]
Coherency, the persistency of ideas the best argument in support of their legitimate connection, [23]
Coleridge, on "Darwinising," [21]
Common terms, our, involve the connection between memory and heredity, [201], [205]
—— descent, the "hidden bond" of Lamarck, as also of C. Darwin, [271]
Comparative anatomy, Lamarck on, [266], &c.
Complex structures, the incipiency of, a difficulty in the way of the natural selection view of evolution, [21], [22]
Compromise, Buffon's, [92]
Conditions of existence, the very essence of condition involves that there shall be penalty in case of non-fulfilment, [352], [376], [377]
—— and the winglessness of Madeira beetles, [373], &c.
—— according to C. Darwin, "include" and yet "are fully embraced by" natural selection, [355]
—— identical with "natural selection," [351-354]
—— Étienne Geoffroy, and Lamarck on, [326], [327], [328]
—— Buffon on the, [103];
difference between Buffon's and Lamarck's view of their action, [105]
—— direct action of changed, Buffon on the, [145], [147], [160]
—— Lamarck on, [105], [268], [270], [271], [275], [277], [278], [281], [291], [292], [294], [295], [298], [299], [300], &c.
Continuity in discontinuity, and vice versâ, [47]
Contracts of animals, Dr. E. Darwin on the, [205]
Contrivance, does organism show signs of this? [2]
Convenient, not only sometimes, but always, more, [365]
Corkscrew for corks, and lungs for respiration, Prof. Clifford on, [7]. See also p. [58]
—— we should have grown a, if drawing corks had been important to us, [7]
Creator, a, who is not an organism, unintelligible, [6], [11], [24]
Criticising, difficulty of, without knowing more than the mere facts which are to be criticised, [172]
Criticism, Miss Seward's, on Dr. Darwin's "Elegy," [189]
—— Grant Allen on the decay of, [388]
Crux, the, of the early evolutionist, [35]
Cuttle-fish, natural selection like the secretion of a, [332]
DAMNATION, praising with faint, [111]
Darwin, Charles, on the eye, denies design, [8]
—— declares variation to be the cause of variation, [8], [347], [369]
—— and blind chance working on whither; the accumulation of innumerable lucky accidents, [41], [42]
—— our indebtedness to, [62], [66], [335]
—— has adopted one half of Isidore Geoffroy's conclusion without verifying either, [83]
—— on Buffon's fluctuation of opinion, [97]
—— on Isidore Geoffroy, [97]
—— his assertion that Buffon has not entered on the "causes or means" of transformation, [104]
—— his meagre notice of his grandfather, [196]
—— his treatment of the author of the "Vestiges of Creation," [65], [247], [248]
—— attributes the characteristics of neuter insects to natural selection, [249]
—— his treatment of Lamarck, [249], [250], [251], [298], [314], [376]
—— "great is the power of steady misrepresentation," [251]
—— his "happy simplicity" about animals and plants under domestication, [276]
—— his notice of Mr. Patrick Matthew in the imperfect historical sketch which he has prefaced to the "Origin of Species," [315], [316]
—— points of agreement between him and Lamarck, [335-337]
—— sees no broad principle underlying variation, [339]
—— dwells on the accumulation of variations, the origination of which he leaves unaccounted for, [340], [341]
—— his variations being due to no general underlying principle, will not tend to appear in definite directions, nor to many individuals at a time, nor to be constant for long together, [342]
—— speaks of natural selection as a cause of modification, while declaring it to be a means only, [345], &c.
—— his explanation of this, [384], &c.
—— his dilemma, as regards the "Origin of Species," [346]
—— declares the fact of variation to be the cause of variation, [8], [347], [369]
—— if he had told us more of what Buffon, &c., said, and where they were wrong, he would have taken a course, &c., [357]
—— on the ease with which we can hide our ignorance under a cloud of words, [358]
—— apologizes for having underrated the frequency and importance of variation due to spontaneous variability, [358]
—— his "Origin of Species" like the opinion of a lawyer who wanted to leave loopholes, or an Act of Parliament full of repealed and inserted clauses, [358]
—— accused of confusion and inaccuracy of thought, [359]
—— as just as Aristides himself, [364]
—— most candid literary opponent in the world, [364]
—— declares Nature to be the most important means of modification, and variation to be the cause of variations, [369]
—— like a will-o'-the-wisp, [372]
—— disuse, the main agent in reducing wings of Madeira beetles, [377]
—— how he and Lamarck treat the winglessness of Madeira beetles respectively, [373-380]
—— an example of his "manner," [378]
—— the way in which he met "Evolution, Old and New," [393]
Darwin, Erasmus, never quite recognized design, [39]
—— ignorance concerning, [61]
—— on reason and instinct, [115], &c.
—— life of, [173], &c.
—— in Nottingham market-place, [182], [184], [197]
—— and Dr. Johnson, [184], [185]
—— and Tutbury bull running, [187]
—— his poetry about the pump, and illustration, [84], [193]
—— should have given his evolution theory a book to itself, [197]
—— had no wish to see far beyond the obvious, [197]
—— must be admitted to have missed detecting Buffon's humour, [83], [84], [197]
—— did not attribute instincts and structures to memory pure and simple, [198]
—— on the reasoning powers of animals, and on instinct, [201], [205]
—— his failure to connect memory and instinct, as with birds' nests, [201-203]
—— failed to see the four main propositions which I contended for in "Life and Habit," [37], [203], [204]
—— on the analogies between animal and vegetable life, [206], &c.
—— on sensitive plants, [206], [210]
—— on the individuality of buds, and his theory of bark, [207], [208]
—— on the movements of climbing plants, [209]
—— on the oneness of personality between parents and offspring, [214];
the embryo not a new animal, [215]
—— on animals under domestication, [223]
—— on the effects of accidents transmitted to offspring, [224]
—— sees struggle, and hence modification, turn mainly round three great wants, [226], [229], [257], [279]
—— on desire as a means of modification, [226], [228], [259]
—— by a slip approaches the error of his grandson, [227], [228]
—— on embryonic metamorphoses, [230], [231]
—— believed animals and plants to be descended from a common stock, [233]
—— and Lamarck compared, [257]
—— on the struggle of existence, and the survival of the fittest, [227], [232], [259]
Darwin, Mrs. Erasmus, death-bed of, [178]
Darwin, Francis, mentioned, [109]
—— his interesting lecture, [206]
—— does not use the expression "natural selection," [368]
Darwinising, Coleridge on, [21]
Darwinism, the old Darwinism involves desire, invention, and design, [58]
—— modern, falling into disfavour, [60]
—— and evolution not to be confounded, [360], [361]
Day, the portrait of, by Wright of Derby, [180]
Death, violent, Buffon on, [126]
—— of Dr. Erasmus Darwin, [193], [194]
Death-bed of Mrs. Erasmus Darwin, [178]
Deed, illustration drawn from a very intricate,
[28]
Definite, with Lamarck the variations are, [341], [344]
Dégénérations, [87]
Demand and supply, like power and desire, [222], [300]
Demonstrative case, "this demonstrative case of neuter insects, &c.," [249], [298], [314]
Descent, with modification, spoken of as though synonymous with natural selection, [248], [356]
Design, and organism, shall we or shall we not connect these ideas? [2]
—— Aristotle denied, Plato upheld, Haeckel on, [4]
—— Prof. Clifford's denial of, [6], [7]
—— does certainly involve a designer who has an organism, who can think, and make mistakes, [6], [24]
—— a belief in both design and evolution, commonly held to be incompatible, [9]
—— Sir W. Thomson and Sir J. Herschel on, [11]
—— Paley on, [12], &c.
—— light thrown by embryology on the method of, [25]
—— G. H. Lewes opposes, [26]
—— the three positions in respect to, taken by Charles Darwin, Paley, and the earlier evolutionists, [31]
—— the first evolutionists did not see that their view of evolution involved design, [34]
—— from within as much design as from without, [36]
—— was equivalent to theological design, with the early evolutionists, [36]
—— if each step is taken designedly, the whole is done designedly, [52], [384]
—— and accident, the line between them hard to draw; shaking the bag, &c., [53], [384]
—— instinct originated in, [54]
—— as much lost sight of with old-established forms of the steam-engine as with birds' nests or the wheel, [55]
—— Dr. E. Darwin's failure to see that evolution involves design, [195]
—— we feel the want of, as much as we do of evolution, [407]
—— evolution not only tolerates, but cannot get on without, [408]
Designer, "I believe in an organic and tangible designer of every complex structure," [6]
—— "where is he? show him to us," &c., [29], [30]
—— the, of any organism, the organism itself, [30], [31], [40]
Desire and power, interaction of, [44], [45], [47], [127], [217], [221], [300], [322]
—— and power, like wealth, [222]
—— as a means of modification, Dr. Erasmus Darwin on, [226], [228], [259]
Development, the history of organic, the history of a moral struggle, [45]
—— always due to making the best of the present, [50]
Devils, [20],000, dancing a saraband on the point of a needle, [216]
Dew drop, or lens, the, and Lord Rosse's telescope, [44], [47]
Diaphragm, Buffon on the, [129]
Dice, accidental variations thrown for as with, [3]
Difference between animal and ordinary mechanism, [24]
—— the main, between the manufacture of tools and that of organs, [39]
Dilemma, C. Darwin's, [346]
Direct action of changed conditions, Buffon on the, [105], [145], [147], [160]
Discontinuity in continuity, [47]
Disease, accidents followed by, [303]
Disintegration, Protestantism tends towards, [397]
Distribution, geographical, changed, Buffon on, [145], [164]
Disuse, and the winglessness of Madeira beetles, we are almost surprised to find that they are connected at all, [375]
—— the main agent in reducing the wings of Madeira beetles, [377]
—— some examples of the effect of, adduced by Lamarck, [378]
Dog, Buffon on the, [120]
—— Lamarck on the various breeds of the, [297]
Domestication, a single case of a species formed under domestication sufficient to remove the à priori difficulty from a comprehensive theory of evolution, [90], [91], [311]
—— plants under, Buffon on, [167], &c.
—— Buffon on animals under, [103], [120], &c., [148], &c., [159], &c., [276]
—— animals under, Dr. Erasmus Darwin on, [223]
—— animals under, Buffon on, [121], &c., [148], [276]
—— C. Darwin on, [276]
—— animals and plants under, Lamarck on, [275], [293], [296], [297], [300]
—— animals and plants under, Mr. Patrick Matthew on, [324]
Door, the doing anything well will open the door for doing something else, [51]
Ducks, our domesticated, why they cannot fly like wild ones, [296], [309]
EARN, "you are but doing your best to earn an honest living," [29]
Ears are never found in a rudimentary condition, [379]
Eat, or be eaten, [177]
Effort, Paley's argument that structures have not been developed through, [22], [45]
—— too much, as vicious as indolence, [35]
—— "neither too much nor too little," [50]
—— Herculean, condemned, [197]
Egyptian mummies, Lamarck on, [274], [275]
Embryology, the light it throws upon the mode in which organisms have been designed, [25]
Embryonic metamorphoses, Erasmus Darwin on, [230], [231]
Embryonic development, Lamarck on, [289]
Encyclical, the Pope's, on St. Thomas Aquinas, [402], &c.
Endeavour, Paley's argument against the view that structures have been developed through, [22], [45]
Endowment, the new orthodoxy, which is clamouring for, [360]
English wines, Dr. Erasmus Darwin's preference for, [175]
Environment. See Conditions of Existence
Equilibrium, the, of Nature, Buffon on the, [125]
Err, the power to, rated highly, [29]
—— "it is on this margin that we may err or wander," [50]
—— virtue ever errs on the side of excess, [35]
Error, importance of, dependent on the distance, rather than the direction, [50]
"Especially" the same, [92], [96]
Ethiopian, the, can change his skin, if it becomes worth his while to try long enough, [40]
Evêque and bishop, common derivation of, [355]
Everlasting, God, how far, [32]
Evolution, commonly held incompatible with design, [9]
—— Paley, its first serious opponent in England, [21]
—— Sir Walter Raleigh on, [21], [70]
—— must stand or fall according as it rests on a purposive foundation or no, [60]
—— brief summary of its six principal stages, [62], &c.
—— Bacon on, [69]
—— the theory of, as apart from the evidence in support of it, [332]
—— C. Darwin and Lamarck are equally intent upon establishing the same theory of evolution, [335-337]
—— and Darwinism, not to be confounded, [360], [361]
—— Rome and Pantheism meet in, [403]
Evolutionists, the early, did not know that they accepted teleology, [34]
—— the early, saw design, only as design by the God of theologians, [36]
Experience and instinct, Mr. Patrick Matthew on, [322]
Extinct species, Lamarck on, [277]
—— Buffon on, [146], [277]
Eye, no creature that had nothing like an eye ever set itself to conceive one and grow one, [44], [387]
—— Paley asks "how will our philosopher get an eye?" [46]
—— of flat fish, Lamarck on the, [307]
—— Lamarck on the, of underground and cave-inhabiting animals, [378]
—— disappear and reappear in the scale of organism according to the power of using them, [379]
FAITH, forms of, or faiths of form, &c., [339]
Familiarity, with a little, such superficial objections will be forgotten, [367]
Far ahead, no organism ever saw an improvement a long way off and made towards it, [43], [44], [48], [49], [54], [384]
Father, the man who could be father of such a son and retain his affection, &c., [76]
Factors, there have been two, of modification, one producing and the other accumulating variations, [227]
Fecundity, alternate years of, Buffon on, [125]
Feeding and breeding, [222]
Feel, if plants and animals look as if they feel, let us say they feel, [198]
Feeling, there is more feeling than reason in animals, [51]
Feral characteristics, resumption of, Buffon on, [123]
Final causes, the doctrine of, as commonly held in the time of the early evolutionists, [34], [36]
—— Buffon on, [118], &c.
Fitness, the cause of, more important than the fact that fitness is commonly fit, and therefore successful, [351]
Flat fish, Lamarck on the eyes of, [307]
Fluctuation of opinion, C. Darwin on Buffon's, the charge refuted, [97], &c., [164], [166]
Fontenelle, on theories, [22]
Foot, and model of foot, differences between, [24]
Forms of faith, or faiths of form, &c., [339]
Four main points which the early evolutionists failed to see in their connection and bearing on each other, [37], [203]
Four main principles, the, which I contended for in "Life and Habit," [37], [203], [380], [381]
Fowls and pigeons, Buffon on, [169]
GARNETT, Mr. R., and "Darwinising," [21]
Genius, Mr. Allen says I am a, [388]
Gentleman, the Church of Rome means the same by the word as we do, [395]
Geoffroy, Étienne, how small a way he goes, [196]
—— and Isidore, trimmers, [328]
—— on Buffon, [328]
—— on conditions of existence, [326], [327]
—— declares against Lamarck's hypothesis, [328]
—— his position, [325-328]
Geoffroy, Isidore, on evolution and final causes, [9]
—— on Buffon's fluctuation of opinion, [98], &c., [164], [166]
—— points out the difference between the views of Buffon and Lamarck, [105]
—— statement that Buffon's opinions fluctuated again refuted, [166]
—— and Lamarck's hypothesis, [244-246], [329]
—— on Buffon, [328]
—— his position, [329]
Genealogical order, Lamarck on, [264]
—— C. Darwin on, [265]
Generation more remarkable than reason, Hume on, [233]
Generic differences (as well as specific), Buffon on, [164]
Genius, a supreme capacity for taking pains, [76]
Geographical distribution, changed, Buffon on, [145], &c., [164]
Geometrical ratio of increase, Buffon on, [123]
—— Lamarck, on, [280]
—— Patrick Matthew on, [320], [321]
Germ of oak indistinguishable from that of a man, [334]
Germans, Buffon on the, [93]
Glory "comes after labour if she can," &c., [76]
Go away, because their uncles, aunts, [376]
God, embodied in living forms, and dwelling in them, [31]
—— how far everlasting, invisible, imperishable, omnipotent, &c., [32]
—— the unseen parts of, are as a deep-buried history, [33]
Goethe, as an evolutionist, [71]
Gradations infinitely subtle, [87]
Grant Allen, on "Evolution, Old and New," [386-388]
—— on the decay of criticism, [388]
—— says that "Evolutionism is an almost exclusively English impulse," [393]
Greyhound or racehorse, the well-adapted form of the, [359]
Growth attended at each step by a felicitous tempering of two antagonistic principles, [35]
Gueneau de Montbeillard, [172], [173]
HABIT," "Life and. See "Life and Habit."
—— rudimentary organs repeated through mere force of, [38], [39]
—— Buffon on, [148], [159], [160], [161], [162]
—— a second Nature, Lamarck on, [300]
Habits, or use, and organ, Lamarck on the interaction of, [292], [311]
Haeckel, on design, [4], [5]
—— on Goethe as an evolutionist, [71]
—— does not appear to know of Buffon as an evolutionist, [71], [393]
—— his surprising statement concerning Lamarck, [73]
—— his ignorance concerning Erasmus Darwin, [73], [393]
—— on Lamarck, [246], [247]
—— A. R. Wallace's review of his "Evolution of Man," [382], [384]
Hamlet, the "Origin of Species" like "Hamlet" without Hamlet, [363]
Handiest, a man should do whatever comes handiest, [51], [52]
Hare, Buffon on the, [123], &c.
Hartmann's philosophy of the unconscious, and "Life and Habit," [56], [57]
Hearing, when we once reach animals so low as to have no organ of, we lose this organ for good and all, [379]
Heredity and habit, Buffon on, [148], [159], [160], [161], [162]
—— only another term for unknown causes, unless the "Life and Habit" theory be adopted, [384]
Hering, Professor, referred to, [66], [67]
—— his theory as given in "Nature" by Ray Lankester, [198-200]
Herschel, Sir John, compares natural selection to the Laputan method of making books, [10]
Higgling and haggling of the market, [50]
History of the universe, each organism is a, from its own point of view, [31]
Horse and ass, Buffon's most pregnant passage on the, [80], [90], [91], [100], [101], [142], [143], [155], [164], [311]
—— and man, skeleton of the, [88], [89]
—— and zebra, Buffon on the, example of irony, [80], [155], [164]
Hume, his saying that generation is more remarkable than reason, [233]
Huxley, Professor, referred to, [93]
—— pointed out to Professor Mivart the difficulty in the way of natural selection, [344]
—— his ignorance concerning the earlier history of evolution, [392], [393]
Hybridism, Buffon on, [117], [118]
Hybrids, sterility of, Lamarck on, and C. Darwin on, [272], [273]
IDEAS, the bond or nexus of our, [23], [29], [30]
Ignorance, the prevailing, concerning the earlier evolutionists, [61]
—— it is easy to hide our, under such expressions as "plan of creation," or natural selection, [358]
Imitation, instinct not referable to, as maintained by Erasmus Darwin, [202]
Immutability of species and design commonly accepted together, [9], [10]
Improvements, small successive, in man's inventions, [44], [46], [47], [54], [55], [384]
Inaccuracy of thought, C. Darwin accused of, [359]
Incipiency, of complex structures, a difficulty in the way of the Natural selection view of evolution, [21], [22]
Incorporate, the designer is, with the organism, [30]
Increase, geometrical ratio of Buffon on the, [123]
—— Lamarck on, [280]
—— Patrick Matthew on, [320], [321]
Indefinite, with C. Darwin the variations are, [342], [344]
Indifference, I say I am more indifferent than I think I am, whether mind is or is not the least misleading symbol for the cause that sustains the universe, [371]
Indirect action of conditions of existence according to Lamarck, [294], [299], [306]. (See "Conditions of Existence")
Individuality, Buffon on, [128]
—— of buds, Erasmus Darwin on the, [207], [208]
—— our, a consensus, or full-flowing river, [318]
Infallibility, possible results of the doctrine of Papal, [406]
Insectivorous plants, Erasmus Darwin on, [206]
Instep, ligament that binds the tendons of the, Paley on the, [22]
Instinct, present, does not bar its having arisen in reason and reflection, [53], [54]
—— returns to its earlier phase, i. e. to reason on the presence of the unfamiliar, [54], [55], [56]
—— and reason, Buffon on, [110-116]
—— Darwin, Erasmus, on, [115], [116], [204]
—— not referable to imitation, as maintained by Erasmus Darwin, [202]
—— is reason become habitual, [203]
—— reason perfected and got by rote, [256]
—— and reason, Lamarck on, [256], [257], [274]
—— referred to experience and memory, by Patrick Matthew, [322]
Insult, "Evolution, Old and New," not intended as an insult to men of science, [392]
Interaction of want and power, [44], [45], [47], [217], [218], [221], [300], [323]
—— of body and mind, Lamarck on the, [338], [339], [341]
Interesting, the more interesting the animal the more evolution Buffon puts into his account of it, [84]
Intermediate forms, Lamarck on, [283], [286]
—— C. Darwin, [284], [285]
Inventions, small successive improvements in man's, and development of, analogous to that of organism, [44], [46], [47], [54], [55], [384]
Irony, good-natured and the reverse, [91]
—— an apology for, and explanation how far it is legitimate, [111], [112]
—— Buffon's, [78], &c., [91], [92], [93], [155], [157], [163], [164]
JARDINE, Sir W., on Buffon's character, [82]
Johnson, Dr., and Erasmus Darwin, [184], [185]
Joints, Paley on the human, [19], [20]
Juggle, Paley's argument a juggle, unless man has had a bonâ fide personal, and therefore organic designer, [14], [16]
KNEE-PAN, Paley on the human, [18]
Knowledge, nomenclature mistaken for, [141]
LABOUR, glory comes after, if she can, [76]
Lamarck, had brain upon the brain, [36]
—— never quite recognized design, [39]
—— Haeckel's surprising statement concerning, [73]
—— wherein he mainly differs from Buffon, [105]
—— memoir of, [235]
—— his connection with Buffon, as tutor to his son, &c., [237], [258]
—— his daughters, [242], [253]
—— his poverty and blindness, [242], [253]
—— Isidore Geoffroy on, bad caricature of his teaching, [244-246]
—— Haeckel on, [246], [247]
—— never seriously discussed, [247]
—— "the well-known doctrine of," C. Darwin's reference to, [249], [250], [251], [298], [314], [376]
—— on the opposition his theory met with, [252]
—— too old to have begun his unequal contest, [253]
—— on the feeling of animals, [254], [255]
—— too theory-ridden, [254]
—— misled by Buffon (query), [255]
—— took from Buffon without sufficient acknowledgment, [255], [258],
[260], [311]
—— as compared with Dr. Erasmus Darwin, [257]
—— like Dr. E. Darwin, sees struggle and modification turn mainly round three great wants, [257], [279], [300], [309]
—— when and how he came over to the side of mutability, [258]
—— and the French translation of the "Loves of the Plant," [259]
—— on comparative anatomy, [266]
—— on species, [267], &c.
—— on conditions of existence (circonstances), [105], [268], [270], [271], [275], [277], [278], [281], [291], [292], [294], [295], [298], [299], [300], &c.
—— on instinct, [274]
—— on animals and plants under domestication, [275], [293], [296], [297], [300]
—— on extinct species, [277]
—— anticipated Lyell in rejecting catastrophes, [277]
—— on the geometrical ratio of increase and struggle for existence, [280-282]
—— on embryonic development, [289]
—— the main principles which he supposes to underlie variations, [292], [299], [338], [339]
—— his contention that plants have neither actions nor habits, [295]
—— on use and disuse, [294], [296], [299], [301], [302], [304], [305], [307-309]
—— on the various breeds of the dog, [297]
—— habit a second nature, [300]
—— like Erasmus Darwin and Buffon, understood the survival of the fittest, [301]
—— on the way in which serpents have lost their legs, [303]
—— on wading and aquatic birds, [305]
—— on the eyes of flat fish, [307]
—— on man, [311], &c.
—— on a single instance of considerable variation under domestication, [311]
—— on speech, [313], [314]
—— on the upright position of man and certain apes, [313]
—— his, and Étienne Geoffroy's views on conditions of existence, [326], [327], [328]
—— his hypothesis, and Isidore Geoffroy, [329]
—— Herbert Spencer on, [330], [331]
—— desired to discover the law underlying variations, [337]
—— the extent to which he and C. Darwin take common ground, [335-337]
—— on body and mind, [338], [339], [341]
—— on his theory variations will be definite, will appear in large numbers of individuals at the same time, for long periods together, [341]
—— how he and C. Darwin treat the winglessness of Madeira beetles respectively, [373-380]
—— on the eyes and ears of cave-inhabiting animals, [378], [379]
Laputan method of making books, the, and natural selection, [11]
Lawyer's deed, if we come across a very intricate, &c., [27]
Leopard, the, can change his spots if it becomes worth his while to try long enough, [40]
Lewes, G. H., on embryology, [25]
—— his objection to the tentativeness with which the same errors are repeated generation after generation, [26]
—— his objection to C. Darwin's language concerning natural selection, [346]
Lewes, G. H., on natural selection, [348], [349], [359]
Life, some remarks about the criterion of, that I must retract, [279]
—— one Proteus principal of, [320]
"Life and Habit," what I believe to have been its most important features, [67], [203], [204]
—— recapitulation of the main principle insisted on, [37], [56], [203], [380], [381], [384]
—— and Hartmann's philosophy of the unconscious, German review, [56], [57]
Lifetime, considerable modifications effected during a single, [304]
—— the changes undergone by organisms during a single, Herbert Spencer, on, [332-334]
Ligament, the, which binds down the tendons of the instep, [21]
Living, Paley is but doing his best to earn an honest, [29]
—— forms of faith, or faiths of form, [339]
Lines, no sharp can be drawn, [47]
Lion and tiger, Buffon on the, [143], [145]
Llama, Buffon on the hereditary ills of the, [161]
Longevity, the principle underlying, [67], [380], [381]
Loopholes for escape, the "Origin of Species" full of, [358]
"Loves of the Plants," French translation of the, [63], [259]
Lungs for respiration, and corkscrew for corks, Professor Clifford on, [7]. (See also p. [58])
Lyell, Sir C., and Lamarck, [277]
—— on the similarity between Lamarck's theory and Mr. Darwin's, [336], [337]
MACHINE, Paley declares animals to be neither wholly machines nor wholly not machines, [14]
Madeira beetles, the ways in which Lamarck and C. Darwin would treat their winglessness, [373-380]
Maillet, de, referred to, [70]
Mainspring, the true, of our existence lies not in these muscles, &c., [32]
Man, the designer of man, [30]
—— and horse, skeleton of the, [88], [89]
—— and the ape, [90]
—— and the lower animals, Buffon on, [107], [108]
—— Lamarck on, [311], &c.
Manner, the, is the man himself, [77]
—— "but this is Mr. Darwin's", [378]
Manufacture, the, of tools and of organs, two species of the same genus, [39]
Margin, there is a margin in every organic structure, &c., [49], [50]
—— on the margin of the self-evident the greatest purchase is obtainable, [197]
Market, the higgling and haggling of the, [50]
Martins, M., his life of Lamarck, [235], &c.
Matter less important than the manner, [77]
—— and mind, inseparable, [371]
Matthew, Mr. Patrick, his work on naval timber and arboriculture, [64], [65]
—— extracts from, [315], &c.
—— Mr. C. Darwin on, [315]
—— on animals and plants under domestication, [324]
—— on will as influencing organism, [320], [321], [322]
—— on the struggle for existence with survival of the fittest, [320], [322]
—— and natural selection, [323]
—— on instinct and memory, and on the continued personality of parents in offspring, [321], [322], [323]
Means, C. Darwin's dangerous use of this word, [345]
—— one sine quâ non for a thing is as much a means of that thing's coming about as anything else is, [349]
Mechanism of animals, Paley on the, [14]
Mechanism of animals, evidence of design in any ordinary, [15]
Memory, and life and heredity, [37], [38], [39], [56], [67], [198-203], [332], [380], [381]
—— Professor Hering on, [198-200]
—— Patrick Matthew on, [322]
Meteoric, both want and power are, [44], [45]
Meninges, Buffon on the, [132]
Microcosm, each organism a history of the universe from its own point of view, [31]
Microscope, illustration from successive improvements in the, [46], [47]
Mind, "the least inadequate and misleading symbol," for the power that has designed organism, [3], [371]
—— and body, Lamarck on, [338], [339], [341]
—— and matter inseparable, [371]
Misfortune, take advantage of, [51]
Misrepresentation, "great is the power of steady," [251]
Missionaries should avoid trying to effect sudden modifications, [183]
Mistake, the power to make, rated highly, [29]
—— importance of, depends on magnitude rather than on the direction, [50]
Mivart, Professor, says that, "Mind is the least adequate and misleading symbol," &c., [3], [371]
—— referred to, [22], [66], [67]
—— admits that his objection does not tell against the Lamarckian theory of evolution, [343]
—— points out that the admission of a principle underlying variations is fatal to C. Darwin's theory concerning natural selection, [343]
—— on C. Darwin's "haphazard, indefinite variations," [343]
—— how Professor Huxley pointed out to him the objection to C. Darwin's theory concerning natural selection, [344]
—— asks what is natural selection? and declares it to be repudiated by its propounder, [369]
—— declares it to be "nothing," and a puerile hypothesis, [370], [371]
—— declares the causes of variation to be the causes of the distinction of species, [370]
Model, artificial, of a foot, and true foot, difference between, [24]
Modification. It is only on modification that reason reasserts itself, [55]
—— there have been two factors of, one producing variations, and the other accumulating them, [227]
—— arrived at by struggle round three great wants, Erasmus Darwin on, [226-229]
—— Lamarck on the same, [257], [279], [300], [301]
—— the cause of survival, not survival the cause of modification, [302]
Moral, an organism is most, when looking a little ahead, but not too far, [44]
—— struggle, the history of organic development, the history of a, [45]
—— more, and safer, to be behind the age than in front of it, [401]
Movement, Buffon's great criterion of sensation, [127]
Mummies, Egyptian, Lamarck on, [274], [275]
Murphy, Rev. J. J., mentioned, [22]
—— referred to, [66], [67]
Mutability of species commonly held to be incompatible with a belief in design, [9], [10]
Mystery-mongering, that Buffon wished to protest against, [81], [171]
Mystification, scientific, and orthodoxy, Buffon on, [138]
NAIVELY, as Mr. Darwin naively adds, "sometimes equally convenient," [354]
Natural selection, the essence of the theory is that the variations shall have been mainly accidental, [7]
Natural selection, the unerring skill of, [9]
—— Sir William Thomson and Sir John Herschel on, [10]
—— Button, and, "by some chance common enough with Nature," [122]
—— spoken of as though synonymous with descent with modification, [248], [285], [356]
—— C. Darwin attributes the instincts of neuter insects to, [249]
—— Mr. Patrick Matthew and, [323]
—— like the secretion of a cuttle-fish, [332]
—— G. H. Lewes's objection to C. Darwin's language concerning, [346]
—— if this is declared to be a cause, the fact of variation is declared to be the cause of variation, [347]
—— declared by C. Darwin to be a means of variation, [347]
—— treated as a cause, [348]
—— G. H. Lewes on, [348], [349], [350]
—— identity with "conditions of existence," [351-354]
—— according to C. Darwin, "fully embraces" and yet "is included in" conditions of existence, [355]
—— a cloak for want of precision of thought, and of substantial difference from Lamarck, [358]
—— "some have even imagined that it induces variability;" and small wonder, considering C. Darwin's language concerning it, [362]
—— C. Darwin's reply to those who have objected to the term, [362-368]
—— a cloak of difference from C. Darwin's predecessors, under which there lurks a concealed identity of opinion as to main facts, [362], [363]
—— "implies only the preservation of such variations as arise," &c., [363]
—— admitted by C. Darwin to be a false term, [364]
—— the complaint is that the expression has been retained when an avowedly more accurate one is to hand, [365], [366]
—— only another way of saying Nature, [368], [369]
—— the dislike of it is increasing, [368], [369]
—— Francis Darwin does not use the expression, [368], [369]
—— daily and hourly scrutinizing throughout the world, &c., [369]
—— practically repudiated by C. Darwin himself, [369]
—— Professor Mivart declares it to be "simply nothing," [370]
—— a "puerile hypothesis," 371
—— and not disuse, the true main cause of the winglessness of Madeira beetles, according to C. Darwin, [374]
—— not the main cause of the winglessness of Madeira beetles, according to C. Darwin, [377]
—— "combined probably with disuse," will account, according to C. Darwin, for the winglessness of Madeira beetles, [375]
Naturalistes, le peuple des, [80], [171]
Nature, the personification of comparatively venial, [367]
—— and natural selection the same thing, [368], [369]
—— the most important means of modification, and variation the cause of variation, [369]
Neck, Paley on the human, [17], [18]
Need, sense of, the main idea in connection with evolution that is left with the reader by the "Zoonomia," or "Philosophie Zoologique," [363]
Needle, 20,000 devils dancing a saraband on the point of a, [216]
Nest, a bird will alter its nest a little, to meet altered circumstances, [55]
Nests, birds', Dr. E. Darwin on, [201]
Neuter insects, "the demonstrative case of neuter insects," &c., [249], [298], [314]
New countries, Buffon a hater of, [146]
Nomenclature, mistaken for knowledge, [141]
Nottingham market-place, Erasmus Darwin in, [182], [184], [197]
OAK and man, the germs of, indistinguishable, [334]
—— man may become as long-lived as the, [382]
Obvious, Erasmus Darwin had no wish to see far beyond the, [197]
Oken, alluded to, [72]
Old age, the phenomena of, [67], [204], [381]
—— and new worlds, Buffon on the fauna of, [145], &c.
One source for all life, Buffon on, [91]
—— Erasmus Darwin on, [109], [233]
Oneness of personality between parents and offspring, [37], [38], [39]
—— Buffon on the, [151]
—— Erasmus Darwin and Professor Hering on the, [198-200]
—— Dr. E. Darwin's failure to grasp the whole facts in connection with this, [198], [201], [203]
—— Dr. E. Darwin on, [214], [215]
—— Patrick Matthew on, [322], [323]
—— mentioned, [332], [380], [381]
Orang-outang, Buffon on the, [156-159]
Organ and use. See "Use."
—— and sense, interaction of the, Buffon on, [127]
—— and faculty, Lamarck on, [255]
Organs are living tools, [2]
—— the manufacture of, and that of tools, two species of the same genus, [39], [43], &c.
—— are the expressions of mental phases, [339], [341]
Organic structures have a margin, [49], [50]
Organic strictures and inorganic, Buffon on the, [153], &c.
Organisms, have been developed as man's inventions have, [44], [46], [47], [384]
"Origin of Species," the, cannot take permanent rank in the literature of evolution, [62]
—— has no raison d'être, if natural selection is not a cause of variation, [346]
—— a piece of intellectual sleight of hand, [346]
—— compared to the advice of a lawyer who wanted to leave plenty of loopholes, or to a cobbled Act of Parliament, [358]
—— is "Hamlet" with the part of Hamlet cut out, [363]
—— most readers would say that it advocated natural selection as the most important cause of variation, [363]
—— and the "Zoonomia," or the "Philosophie Zoologique"; the one upholds natural selection, the other, sense of need, [363]
Orthodoxy, scientific, and mystification, Buffon on, [138]
—— scientific, clamouring for endowment, [360]
—— dangers of, [368]
Overseeing tends to oversight, [197]
PAINS, genius a supreme capacity for taking, [76]
Painting, a man should do something, no matter what, [51], [52]
Paley, quotations from, [12], &c.
—— his argument a juggle, unless some one designed man, much as man designed the watch, [14], [16]
—— on ordinary mechanism, as showing design, [15]
—— on the human neck, [16], [17]
—— on the patella, [18]
—— on the joints, [19], [20]
—— as a writer against evolution, [21]
—— on the ligament that binds the tendons of the instep, [21], [22]
—— opposes the view that structures have been formed through appetency, endeavour or effort, [22], [45]
—— we turn on him and say, Show us your designer, [29]
—— asks, How will our philosopher get an eye? 46
—— his "Natural Theology" written throughout at the "Zoonomia," [195]
—— never gives a reference when quoting an opponent, [195], [306]
Pantheism and Rome will in the end be the two sole combatants, [401]
—— common ground held by Rome and Pantheism, [403-405]
—— of Paul, [404]
Parents and offspring, oneness of personality between (see "Personality")
Passions, of like passions, men of science are, with other pastors and prophets, [253]
Patella, or knee-pan, Paley on the, [18]
Paul, St., his pantheistic tendencies, [404]
—— we want to accept him literally, [405]
Peace, the, that passeth understanding, [35]
Perception and sensation, Buffon on the difference between, [129], [130]
Personality, oneness of, between parents and offspring, [37], [38], [39]
—— Buffon on the, [151]
—— Erasmus Darwin and Professor Hering on the, [198-200]
—— Erasmus Darwin's failure to grasp the whole conception, [198], [201], [203]
—— Erasmus Darwin on the, [214], [215]
—— Patrick Matthew on the, [322], [323]
—— mentioned, [332], [380], [381]
Personification, the, of Nature, comparatively venial, [367]
Pessimism: "Which is the pessimist I or Mr. Darwin?" [59]
Peuple des Naturalistes, le, [80], [171]
"Philosophie Zoologique," summary of, [261-314]
—— the, leaves "sense of need" on the reader's mind; the "Origin of Species," natural selection, [363]
Pig, Buffon on the, [118], &c.
Pigeons and fowls, Buffon on, [169]
Plaisanterie, Button's disclaimer of, [93]
Planted upside down, the vertebrata regarded as vegetables, [137]
Plants under domestication, Buffon on, [167], &c.
—— Dr. Erasmus Darwin, on the life of, [206], &c.
—— Lamarck's assertion that they have no action nor habits, [294], [295]
Plato upheld teleology, [4]
Plus il a su, &c., [44]
Poem, a, by Dr. Erasmus Darwin, [189]
Poetry, Dr. Erasmus Darwin's, [83], [189], [193]
Pope's shoes, scientists would step into the, if we would let them, [360], [394]
Portrait of Mr. Day, author of "Sandford and Merton," [180]
Potto, the missing forefinger of the, [303]
Power and desire, interaction of, [44], [45], [47], [127], [217], [221], [300], [323]
Praising, with faint damnation, [111]
Prescience, need not extend over more than the next step, and yet the whole road may have been travelled presciently, [52], [384]
Present, development due to a wise use of the,
[50-52]
Probable, whatever in the teaching of St. Thomas Aquinas is not probable is to be rejected, [402], [403]
Proficiency is due to design if each step was taken designedly, though the end was not far foreseen, [52], [384]
Protestantism tends towards disintegration, [396]
Proteus principle of life, one, [320]
Pump, Erasmus Darwin's poetry about the, [84], [193]
Purpose, instinctive actions were once done with a, [54]
—— spent or extinct, and rudimentary organs, [38], [383]
Purposive, if each step is purposive, the whole is purposive, [52], [384]
Purposiveness: I maintain the lungs to be as purposive us the corkscrew, [5], [6], [7], [58]
RACE, the runners in a, and natural selection, [366], [367]
—— significance of the words being used for a breed and a competition, [366], [367]
Racehorse or greyhound, "the well-adapted forms of the," [359]
Ranunculus aquatilis, Lamarck's passage on, [260], [297]
Raleigh, Sir Walter, and evolution, [21], [70]
Ray Lankester, Professor, on Hering's theory connecting memory and heredity, [198-200]
Reason, there is less reason than feeling in animals, Buffon, [51]
—— perfected becomes instinct, but reasserts itself when the circumstances alter, [54], [55], [56], [203]
—— and instinct, Buffon on, [110], [116]
—— Erasmus Darwin on, [115], [116], [201-205]
—— a less remarkable faculty than generation, Hume on, [233]
—— and instinct, Lamarck on, [256], [274]
—— declared to be incipient instinct, [256]
Réel, au, Buffon's use of these words, [126]
Relativity of the sciences, Buffon on the, [140]
Religion, Buffon's appeals to, [91], [115]
Reopen settled questions, animals cannot, serpents must have no more than four legs, [303]
Resume earlier habits, the tendency to, on the approach of a difficulty, [312], [313]
Retrogressive, Mr. Darwin's views of evolution retrogressive, [66]
Revelation, Buffon's appeals to, against evolution, [91], [115]
Reviews of "Evolution, Old and New," 385, &c.
Riches, the normal growth of, and evolution, [222]
Roman Empire, the, prophetic, [397]
Romanes, G. R., on "Evolution, Old and New," [391-393]
Rome, Church of, means the same by "gentleman" as we do, [395]
—— I would join, if I could, [395], [396]
—— a unifier, [398]
—— the only source from which a church can come, [398-401]
—— and Pantheism, the ultimate fight will be between, [401]
—— points of agreement between Rome and Pantheists, [403-405]
—— may, and should get rid of Protestantism by outbidding it, [407]
Rousseau, Buffon would not play part of, [81]
Rudimentary organs, the crux of the early evolutionist in respect of design, [34]
—— are now mere cant formulæ, force of habit, [38], [383]
—— like the protuberance at the bottom of a tobacco-pipe, [38]
—— Buffon would not accept them as designed, [83]
—— Buffon on, [120]
—— Professor Haeckel on, [383]
Run, how did the winner come to be able to run ever such a little faster than his fellows, [367]
Runners in a race and natural selection, [366], [367]
"SANDFORD and Merton," Miss Seward on the author of, [179], [180]
Saints will commonly strain a point or two in their own favour, [253]
Saturday Review on "Evolution, Old and New," [389-391]
Savery, Captain, [54]
Science, men of, of like passions with other priests and prophets, [253]
—— not a kingdom into which a poor man can enter easily, [253]
—— the leaders of will generally burke new-born wit unless, &c., [315]
—— not of that kind which desires to know, [392]
Scientific orthodoxy and mystification, Buffon on, [138]
—— danger of, [360], [368]
Scramble, birds learned to swim through scrambling, [48], [51]
Self-indulgence, virtue has ever erred rather on the side of, than on that of asceticism, [35]
Sensation, Buffon on, [126], [129]
Sense, "in one sense," 355
Sensitive plants, Dr. E. Darwin on, [206], [210]
Seriously, Buffon speaking, [126]
Serpents, how it is that they have lost their legs, [302]
Seward, Miss, her life of Erasmus Darwin, [174], &c.
Shakspeare and Handel address the many as well as the few, [81]
Shortest day, and shortest day but one, no difference perceptible between, [48]
Skeletons, the, of man and of the horse, [88], &c.
Skill, the unerring, of natural selection, [9]
Siamese twins, desire and power compared to, [218], [300]
Simplicity, happy, an example of, [276]
Sisters, "his, and his cousins and his aunts," [253]
Slit, a slit in one tendon to let another pass through, [20]
Something a man should do, no matter what, [51]
Sometimes, "equally convenient" ("the survival of the fittest" with natural selection), [9], [354], [365]
Son, the people who can get good sons and retain their affection are the only ones worth studying from, [76]
Sorbonne, the, and Buffon, [82], [84]
Sorbonnes, never do like people who write in this way, [143]
Specialists, embryos are, [28]
Species, Buffon on the causes or means of transformation, [159], &c.
—— Lamarck on, [267], &c.
—— clusters of, Lamarck on, [288]
—— C. Darwin on, [289]
Specific characteristics vary more than generic, Lamarck on, [287], [288]
—— C. Darwin on, [288]
Speech, Lamarck on, [313], [314]
Spencer, Herbert, on Lamarck's hypothesis, [330], [331]
—— a follower of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, [332]
Spent, or extinct purpose, and rudimentary organs, [383]
Spontaneous: C. Darwin uses this word in connection with variability, [358]
—— variability (or unknown causes), C. Darwin, on what it will account for, or make known, [358]
Steam engine, latest development of, not foreseen, though each immediate step in advance was so, [54], [384]
—— design lost sight of in the most common patterns, as with a bird's-nest, or the wheel, [55]
Step, if each step is purposive, the whole road has been travelled purposively, [52], [384]
—— only the few nearest are taken definitely, [44], [384]
Sterility of hybrids, Lamarck on, [272]
—— C. Darwin on, [273]
Stock, Buffon on the, and the diaphragm, [130]
Stronger, the, succeed, and the weaker fail, [320], [321]
Strongest, the, eat the weaker, [282]
Struggle for existence, Buffon on the, [123]
—— and hence modification, according to Dr. Erasmus Darwin, mainly conversant about three wants, [226-229], [232]
—— comparison between Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck's views on the foregoing, [257]
—— Lamarck on the foregoing, [279]
—— and survival of the fittest, Lamarck on the, [281], [282]
—— Patrick Matthew on, [321]
Style, Buffon on, [76], [77]
Sudden, the question what is too, to be settled by higgling and haggling, [50]
—— modifications, missionaries should avoid trying to effect, [183]
Superficial, philosophy of the, [34], [35], [36], [198], [204]
Supply and demand, and desire and power, [223], [300]
Survival of the fittest, a synonym for natural selection, [9]
—— Dr. Erasmus Darwin on the, [227]
—— in the struggle for existence, Lamarck on the, [281], [282]
—— understood and admitted by Buffon, Erasmus Darwin, and Lamarck, [301]
—— subsequent to modification, and therefore not the cause of it, [302], [346]
—— Patrick Matthew on, [321]
—— this is not a theory, but a fact, [356], [357]
Swimming, no shore bird ever set itself to learn, of malice prepense, [48], [51]
TAIL, the beaver's, has become an incarnate trowel, [8]
Teething, the pain an infant feels is the death-cry of many a good cell, [75]
Teleological, failure of the early evolutionists to see their position as, [34]
Teleology, statement of the question, [1]
—— Aristotle denied, Plato upheld, [4]
—— the, of Paley and the theologians, [12], &c.
—— internal as much teleology as external, [36]
—— See also "Design."
Telescope, Lord Rosse's, and dew-drop, [44], [47]
Tempering, the felicitous, of two great contradictory principles, [35]
Tendon, a slit in one, to let another pass through, [20]
Terminology of botany harder than botany, [108]
—— Buffon on, [140], [141]
Test, Buffon's, as to the name an object is to bear, [115]
—— of perception and sensation, Buffon's, [127]
Theological writer, few passages in any, displease me more, &c., [368]
Theory, the survival of the fittest is a fact, not a theory, [356], [357]
Theories, true, Fontenelle on, [22], [23]
—— to be ordered out of court if troublesome, [35]
This: "I can no more believe in this," &c., [359]
—— "it is impossible to attribute to this cause," [358]
Thomas, St., Aquinas, Papal encyclical on, [402], [403]
Thomson, Sir W., natural selection and design, [10]
Thought is expressed in organ, [339], [341]
Time, Buffon on, [103]
—— Lamarck on, [241]
Tobacco-pipe, a rudimentary organ on a, [38]
Toes, a man who plays the violin with his, [50]
Tools, organs are living tools, [2]
—— the manufacture of, and that of organs, two species of the same genus, [39]
Touch, all senses modifications of the sense of touch, [47]
Transformation of species, Buffon on the causes or means of, [159]
Translation of the "Loves of the Plants" into French, [63], [258], [259]
Translation of the "Zoonomia" into German, [71]
—— of Dr. E. Darwin's other works, [195]
Trapa Natans, Erasmus Darwin's note on, [260]
Treviranus alluded to, [72]
Tree, life seen as a tree, by Lamarck, [269]
—— by C. Darwin, [270]
—— nature compared to a, by Buffon, [171]
Trees, the blind man who saw men as trees walking, [137]
Trowel, the beaver has an incarnate trowel, [8]
True, vitally, [227]
—— all very, as far as it goes (that Nature is the most important means of modification), [369]
Truism, the survival of the fittest, a, [351]
Tutbury bull running, [187]
Tyndall, Professor, a rhapsody about C. Darwin, [41]
—— calls evolution C. Darwin's theory, [360], [361]
UNCLES and aunts do not beget their nephews and nieces, [367], [376]
Unconscious, our acquired habits come to be done as unconsciously as though instinctive, on repetition, [56]
—— difference between my view of the, and Von Hartmann's, [58]
Unconsciousness, the, with which habitual actions come to be performed, [37], [38], [39], [56-58], [67], [203], [332], [381]
Understanding, the peace of mind that passeth, [35]
Unity of the individual, Buffon on the, [127], [128]. (See "Oneness")
"Unknown causes," according to Mr. Darwin, can do so much, but not so much more, [359]
—— their identity with spontaneous variability, [359]
—— heredity only another name for, unless the "Life and Habit" theory be adopted, [384]
Upright position in man and certain apes, and children, Lamarck on, [312]
Upside down, the vertebrata are perambulating vegetables planted, [137]
Use and organ, [44], [45], [47], [217], [218], [221], [292], [294], [296], [299], [301], [302], [304], [305], [307-309], [311], [323]
VACUUM, an omniscient and omnipotent, [28]
Vague, efforts and desires are vague in the outset, [47], [52], [384]
Variation, C. Darwin declares the fact of variation to be the cause of variation, [8], [9], [347], [369]
Variations, one factor of modification provides, the other accumulates, [227]
—— Lamarck strove to discover the law underlying, [337]
—— C. Darwin sees no cause underlying them, [339], [340]
—— according to Lamarck, they will tend to appear in definite directions in large numbers of individuals, for long periods together; according to C. Darwin they will not do thus, [341]
—— must appear before they can be preserved, [346]
—— the cause of variations is the cause of species (Professor Mivart on this), [370]
Vary, man cannot vary his practices much more than animals can, [55]
"Vestiges of Creation," the, [65]
—— C. Darwin on the, [65]
—— the author of, on Lamarck, [247]
—— Darwin's treatment of, [247], [248]
Virtue has ever erred on the side of excess than on that of asceticism, [35]
Violin, a man who plays the, with his toes, [50]
Vitally true, [227]
Volition. (See "Will")
Voltaire, Buffon would not play the part of, [81]
WALLACE, A. R., his review of Professor Haeckel's "Evolution of Man," [382-384]
Want and power, interaction of, [44], [45], [47], [48], [217], [218], [221], [300], [323]
Wasp, cutting a fly in half, Dr. Erasmus Darwin on, [205]
Watch, Paley's argument from the, [13]
Weaker, the strongest eat the, [282]
Wealth, the normal growth of, and evolution, [222]
Web-footed, how birds, became, [48], [49], [51]
—— development of, birds, Lamarck on, [305]
—— Paley on, [305]
Wedge, Buffon let in the thin end of the wedge, by saying that changed habits modify form, [105], [106]
Whisky, God keep you from—if he can, [176]
Will, Patrick Matthew on, as influencing organism, [320-322]. (See also "Desire," "Design," "Want," "Wish")
Will-o'-the-wisp, C. Darwin like a, [372]
Wish and power, their interaction, [44], [45], [47], [48], [217], [218], [221], [300], [323]
Wit, brevity may be its soul, but the leaders of science, &c., [315]
Worcester, the Marquis of, [54]
Words are apt to turn out compendious false analogies, [365]
Worms, reasonable creatures, [255]
Worth, nothing worth looking at or doing, except at a fair price, [35]
Wright, of Derby, his portrait of Mr. Day, [180]
ZEBRA and horse, Buffon on the, [80], [155], [164]
"Zoonomia," German translation of the, [71]
—— Paley's "Natural Theology" written at the, [195]
—— fuller quotations from the, [214], &c.
—— the, and the "Origin of Species," the different ideas that an average reader would carry away with him from these two works ("Sense of Need" and "Natural Selection"), [363]