Ants, slave-making, 29, 69;
French philosopher’s account of, 73.
Artificial selection, part of Natural selection, 16.
Baboons, warfare of, 69.
Bacon, Lord, his statement about dogs, 75.
Barbarism, time required for development of, 57.
Bees, progress of, in cell-making, 25;
their accuracy overrated, 69, 86.
Bennett, Mr. A. W., Mathematical test applied by, 168;
Review by, 173.
Birds’ nests, reasoning powers employed in construction of, 69, 86;
compared with human dwellings, 70;
use of human manufactures in, 71.
British Association, exploration of Kent’s cavern by, 109.
Britons, ancient, condition of, 111.
Brookes, Henry, story of a lion quoted from, 76.
Brutes, man’s treatment of, 11, 90;
opinion that God is the soul of, 71;
compared with men, 74;
their moral qualities, 75, 88;
their laws and constitutions, 77;
their perceptions and emotions, 80;
language of scripture about, 84;
motives of pleasure and pain applied to, 88;
children compared with, 89.
Cannibalism, 57;
of British tribes, 112.
Caterpillars, resembling twigs, 170.
Chalk, continuous formation of, 117.
Civilization, its dependence on language and the art of writing, 88.
Coal-measures, 119-121, 140.
Columbus, his opinion of the earth’s spherical form condemned,
60, 148.
Coquand’s Oysters of the Chalk, Professor Flower’s review
of, 145, 165.
Correlation, 17, 166, 176.
Creation, sudden, not reconcilable with the order of nature, 25;
theories of, compared, 32;
prejudice in favour of its suddenness, 63, 64;
Biblical theory of, 129.
Creations, many distinct, not warranted by scripture or science,
20, 116, 135;
special, for special localities, untenable, 21.
Danes, ancient, food and weapons of, 104.
Darwin, his account of the development of his theory, 4;
his calculation about elephants, 13;
allusion to his theory of Pangenesis, 33;
his explanation of the fauna and flora of mountain-tops, 46;
his account of slave-making ants, 69;
his treatment of geology, 134;
his chapter on instinct, 163.
Darwinism, 3-33;
obscurely anticipated, 2;
its supporters, 3;
prejudice against, 4, 152;
its bearing on the seeming imperfection of nature, 24;
inconsistent with a recent universal deluge, 31, 34.
Dawkins, Mr. W. Boyd, lecture on coal by, 143.
Dawson, Dr., Acadian Geology, 120, 140.
Day, Dr., paper by, on the Mud-fish and Anabas scandens, 28.
Denudation, 143.
Deucalion’s Flood, argument from rebutted, 150.
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