---- opposes the view that structures have been formed through appetency, endeavour or effort, 22, 45 ---- we turn on him and say, Show us your designer, 29 ---- asks, How will our philosopher get an eye? 46 ---- his "Natural Theology" written throughout at the "Zoonomia," 195 ---- never gives a reference when quoting an opponent, 195, 306 Pantheism and Rome will in the end be the two sole combatants, 401 ---- common ground held by Rome and Pantheism, 403-405 ---- of Paul, 404 Parents and offspring, oneness of personality between (_see_ "Personality") Passions, of like passions, men of science are, with other pastors and prophets, 253 Patella, or knee-pan, Paley on the, 18 Paul, St., his pantheistic tendencies, 404 ---- we want to accept him literally, 405 Peace, the, that passeth understanding, 35 Perception and sensation, Buffon on the difference between, 129, 130 Personality, oneness of, between parents and offspring, 37, 38, 39 ---- Buffon on the, 151 ---- Erasmus Darwin and Professor Hering on the, 198-200 ---- Erasmus Darwin's failure to grasp the whole conception, 198, 201, 203 ---- Erasmus Darwin on the, 214, 215 ---- Patrick Matthew on the, 322, 323 ---- mentioned, 332, 380, 381 Personification, the, of Nature, comparatively venial, 367 Pessimism: "Which is the pessimist I or Mr. Darwin?" 59 Peuple des Naturalistes, le, 80, 171 "Philosophie Zoologique," summary of, 261-314 ---- the, leaves "sense of need" on the reader's mind; the "Origin of Species," natural selection, 363 Pig, Buffon on the, 118, &c. Pigeons and fowls, Buffon on, 169 Plaisanterie, Button's disclaimer of, 93 Planted upside down, the vertebrata regarded as vegetables, 137 Plants under domestication, Buffon on, 167, &c. ---- Dr. Erasmus Darwin, on the life of, 206, &c. ---- Lamarck's assertion that they have no action nor habits, 294, 295 Plato upheld teleology, 4 _Plus il a su_, &c., 44 Poem, a, by Dr. Erasmus Darwin, 189 Poetry, Dr. Erasmus Darwin's, 83, 189, 193 Pope's shoes, scientists would step into the, if we would let them, 360, 394 Portrait of Mr. Day, author of "Sandford and Merton," 180 Potto, the missing forefinger of the, 303 Power and desire, interaction of, 44, 45, 47, 127, 217, 221, 300, 323 Praising, with faint damnation, 111 Prescience, need not extend over more than the next step, and yet the whole road may have been travelled presciently, 52, 384 Present, development due to a wise use of the, 50-52 Probable, whatever in the teaching of St. Thomas Aquinas is not probable is to be rejected, 402, 403 Proficiency is due to design if each step was taken designedly, though the end was not far foreseen, 52, 384 Protestantism tends towards disintegration, 396 Proteus principle of life, one, 320 Pump, Erasmus Darwin's poetry about the, 84, 193 Purpose, instinctive actions were once done with a, 54 ---- spent or extinct, and rudimentary organs, 38, 383