Continuity in discontinuity, and _vice versa_, 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