Assur, 153. Astronomy, 5; in early religions, 153. Athanasian Creed, 181-183. Atlantic cable, 60, 61. Atoms, 5, 10, 14; weight of, 15-17; theory of, 16; elementary, 18; and their laws, 19, 22, 25; vibrations of, 26; and ether, 32; and the vortex theory, 33, 34, 36; action of heat on, 43; and chemical energy, 50; affinities and repulsions of, 51; the primary element of matter, 66, 67; polarity of, 68; in hydrates, 69; of hydrogen in acids, 69, 70; of oxygen, 70; multipolar, 71; magnetic, 72; dimensions of, 119. Augustin, 201. Australia, free trade in, 242, 245. Authorities to whom the author is indebted, x. Atavism, 103, 118. Avogadro, law of, 13. Axolotl, 123. Bacteria, 85, 105. Balkh, Zoroaster at, 201. Bees, reproduction of, 106. Bel, 152, 153. Berkeley, Bishop, 142. Berlin, spirit-seeing in, 166. Blindness cured by hypnotism, 165. Bombay, death rate in, 1881, 1882, 218. Books, the best mirrors of an age, 111, 112; modern French novels, 113. Bozu, Buddhist priest upon the Divine Creator, 160, 161. Brahm, 114. Brahminism, 207. Braid, Dr., cures by hypnotism, 165, 168, 193. Brain, the, 125, 126; tissue of the, 127; average weight of the human, 129; organs of the, 130, 131; areas of speech, hearing, and sight in the, 132; intellectual faculties in the, 133; abnormal state of the, 134, 135; action of the grey tissue of the, 137; of the higher animals, 137, 138; cells of the, 140; action in a murder, 189; organ of will in the, 191, 192; effect of injuries to the, 192; effect of will on the, 194. Bret Harte, 110, 112. Bruce, legend of the heart of, 228. Buddha, 187. Buddhism, 156; in Shakespeare, 160; the Divine Creator in, 160, 161; morality of, 160, 184; based upon pessimism, 177, 197, 198, 206, 207. Burial of the dead, 149; prehistoric, 151; Parsee avoidance of, 208. Butyric acid, 73, 74. Byron on the Parsees, 219. Calculus, the differential, 6, 28-32, 138. California, 256. Canterbury, Augustin at, 201. Capital and labour, 176, 246-248. Carbon, 16, 18, 71; in dynamite, 50; radicals of, 73, 74, 77; in the protoplasm, 80; early abundance of, 86; in a dead body, 88; plant life and, 93. Carbonic dioxide, 16, 51, 82, 83, 92, 95, 96; in plant life, 101. Carlyle, 171, 188, 251. Carnegie, Andrew, on modern worship, 219. Catholic theology, 147. Cause, the Great First, 122, 162; Dr. Temple’s definition of, 170; evolution of the idea of, 172, 201, 203; Zoroaster and, 204; the only reasonable theory, 208.