Lubbock, Sir John, ‘Prehistoric Times,’ 54, 104, 107, 112;
‘Origin of Civilization,’ 107.
Lyell, Sir Charles, ‘Principles of Geology,’ 3, 54;
‘Antiquity of Man,’ 107;
‘Elements of Geology,’ 109.
Madagascar, its species and genera, 46.
Malay, compared with the Papuan by Mr. Wallace, 49, 150.
Man, his destructiveness, 11;
his likeness to other animals in blood, fibre, and skeleton, 29;
distribution of his varieties, 48;
traced back for thousands of years, 51;
a common origin for all families of, 52;
his chief endowments, 67;
compared as a builder with birds, 70;
his brain and hairless skin, 73;
his bodily structure, 85;
his opinion of war, 86;
real origin of, forgotten, 102.
Marriage-customs, slow change of, 106.
Marsupials, 46;
fossil, 47.
Matlock Bath, formation of stalagmite at, 110, 114.
Memory, necessary to intelligence, 66;
unequal distribution of, 66.
Miracles, treatment of false ones, 40;
of the Old Testament, 83.
Mivart, St. George, Mr., ‘Genesis of Species’ by, 173.
Mushroom, time required for its growth, 55.
Mygale, the trap-door spider, its ingenious nest, 29.
Natural Selection, illustrated by artificial selection, 14;
the slowness of its movement, 18;
explains the order of nature, and in part its seeming disorder, 26;
limits of, propounded by Mr. Wallace, 62.
Nile, articles in sediment of, 108.
Origin of life, opinions on, 94.
Oysters, memory of, 66;
obscure politics of, 77.
Palæontology, Lyell’s definition of, 135.
Papuan, compared with the Malay, 49, 150.
Parfitt, Mr., on Fossil Sponge Spicules, 136, 139.
Pengelly, Mr., on pre-historic man, 105;
exploration of Kent’s cavern by, 109, 110, 113.
Pigeons, subjected to man’s selection, 14, 16, 17.
Plants, their struggle for food, 12;
their movements, 28.
Pope, his epithet for the elephant, 74.
Reason, progressive development of, in individual minds, 62, 67;
that of men, one in kind with the intelligence of brutes, 66, 84;
helps to, 86.
Relative terms, 97, 171.
Religion, development of, 64, 90.
Reversion, 9;
limits artificial selection, 17.
Rudimentary organs, 21.
Sandstone, New Red, 118.
Savages, question of their degeneracy, 57;
brain, skin, and voice of, 78.
Science, not antagonistic to Christian doctrine, 82, _note_.
Scripture, no warrant for distinct creations, 20;
does not profess to
teach Natural Science, 35;
its use of ordinary language, 36;
its historical account of the Flood, 38;
explanation thereof, 41;
disregard of secondary causes in, 83;
character of genealogies in, 99;
mistaken quotation of, 124;
invidious connection of, with false science, 151;
supposed opposition between it and Darwinism, 157.
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