Energy, 2; nature of, 35, 36, 38, 66, 67; of motion and position, 37, 48; transformation of, 41, 42; in heat and light, 43, 44, 47; variations of, 47, 48; molecular, 49; chemical, 50; in electricity, 54-57; cost of, obtained from zinc, 61, 62; conservation of, 62, 63, 139. England, conservatism in, 236, 237; education in, 237-239; free trade in, 243. English literature, 111; woman in, 112, 113; colonisation, 232. Eozoon Canadiense, 99. Ethelbert, 201. Ether, 22, 36; density of, 24, 25; waves, 26, 43; vibrations of, 27; attempt to identify, with atoms, 32, 35; nature of, 66. Evil, origin of, 170, 173; attempts to reconcile it with good, 178; consistent with theory of God, 173, 202; modern treatment of, 224. Evolution, 6, 8, 121; of religion, 4, 155, 156, 185, 186; of matter, 80; of life, 100; important facts in the history of, 123; does not tend to virtue, 173, 176; of moral ideas, 186, 191; of the horror of murder, 189, 190. Fable of the shield, 227-230; applied to politics, 230; to commerce, 243, 244. “Faust” a Zoroastrian drama, 209. Ferdousi, 201. Fermentation, 87, 88. Ferns in the primary epoch, 97. Fetish worship, 150. Fiji, 149, 189. Fire, primitive means of obtaining, 41; worship, 207, 220. Fish shells in the Tertiary epoch, 98; in the Silurian epoch, 99. Fungi, 95. France, protection in, 246; state railways in, 261. Franklin, Benjamin, 163. French Revolution, 231, 233; colonisation, 232; trade in a colony, 233. Frog with the brain removed, 137. Galileo, 147, 164, 205. Gallio, 239. Gas in dynamite, 51. Gases, law of, 11-13; in water, 14; kinetic theory of, 14, 33; substances reduced to, 44; expansion of, 45. Galton, Mr. F., 240. Genesis, the Creation in, 152, 153. Geology, 5; records of, 96; earliest strata of, 97; vegetable records in, 96-98; animal records in, 99, 100. Geometry, 139. George, Henry, 256. Ghosts, universal belief in, 149-151. Glass, 49, 53. Globigerena, 95. God, Buddhist idea of, 161; a magnified man, 170, 171; Carlyle on, 171; Arnold’s definition of, 171; Jewish doctors on, 172; prevalent idea of miraculous intervention by, 173; the author of good and evil, 179; primitive Aryan word for, 200. Grammar, 239, 240. Gravity, the law of, 5, 16, 48, 49, 121, 144; atoms subject to the, 34; universal confidence in the, 148; a dangerous heresy, 164. Greeks, religion amongst the, 155, 156. Gushtasp, 201. Gymnosperms, 97, 98. Haeckel, 119, 122. Hale, Justice, 164. Halley, 164.