---- on instinct and memory, and on the continued personality of parents in offspring, 321, 322, 323 Means, C. Darwin's dangerous use of this word, 345 ---- one _sine qua non_ for a thing is as much a means of that thing's coming about as anything else is, 349 Mechanism of animals, Paley on the, 14 Mechanism of animals, evidence of design in any ordinary, 15 Memory, and life and heredity, 37, 38, 39, 56, 67, 198-203, 332, 380, 381 ---- Professor Hering on, 198-200 ---- Patrick Matthew on, 322 Meteoric, both want and power are, 44, 45 Meninges, Buffon on the, 132 Microcosm, each organism a history of the universe from its own point of view, 31 Microscope, illustration from successive improvements in the, 46, 47 Mind, "the least inadequate and misleading symbol," for the power that has designed organism, 3, 371 ---- and body, Lamarck on, 338, 339, 341 ---- and matter inseparable, 371 Misfortune, take advantage of, 51 Misrepresentation, "great is the power of steady," 251 Missionaries should avoid trying to effect sudden modifications, 183 Mistake, the power to make, rated highly, 29 ---- importance of, depends on magnitude rather than on the direction, 50 Mivart, Professor, says that, "Mind is the least adequate and misleading symbol," &c., 3, 371 ---- referred to, 22, 66, 67 ---- admits that his objection does not tell against the Lamarckian theory of evolution, 343 ---- points out that the admission of a principle underlying variations is fatal to C. Darwin's theory concerning natural selection, 343 ---- on C. Darwin's "haphazard, indefinite variations," 343 ---- how Professor Huxley pointed out to him the objection to C. Darwin's theory concerning natural selection, 344 ---- asks what is natural selection? and declares it to be repudiated by its propounder, 369 ---- declares it to be "nothing," and a puerile hypothesis, 370, 371 ---- declares the causes of variation to be the causes of the distinction of species, 370 Model, artificial, of a foot, and true foot, difference between, 24 Modification. It is only on modification that reason reasserts itself, 55 ---- there have been two factors of, one producing variations, and the other accumulating them, 227 ---- arrived at by struggle round three great wants, Erasmus Darwin on, 226-229 ---- Lamarck on the same, 257, 279, 300, 301 ---- the cause of survival, not survival the cause of modification, 302 Moral, an organism is most, when looking a little ahead, but not too far, 44 ---- struggle, the history of organic development, the history of a, 45 ---- more, and safer, to be behind the age than in front of it, 401 Movement, Buffon's great criterion of sensation, 127 Mummies, Egyptian, Lamarck on, 274, 275 Murphy, Rev. J. J., mentioned, 22 ---- referred to, 66, 67 Mutability of species commonly held to be incompatible with a belief in design, 9, 10 Mystery-mongering, that Buffon wished to protest against, 81, 171