Purposive, if each step is purposive, the whole is purposive, 52, 384 Purposiveness: I maintain the lungs to be as purposive us the corkscrew, 5, 6, 7, 58 RACE, the runners in a, and natural selection, 366, 367 ---- significance of the words being used for a breed and a competition, 366, 367 Racehorse or greyhound, "the well-adapted forms of the," 359 Ranunculus aquatilis, Lamarck's passage on, 260, 297 Raleigh, Sir Walter, and evolution, 21, 70 Ray Lankester, Professor, on Hering's theory connecting memory and heredity, 198-200 Reason, there is less reason than feeling in animals, Buffon, 51 ---- perfected becomes instinct, but reasserts itself when the circumstances alter, 54, 55, 56, 203 ---- and instinct, Buffon on, 110, 116 ---- Erasmus Darwin on, 115, 116, 201-205 ---- a less remarkable faculty than generation, Hume on, 233 ---- and instinct, Lamarck on, 256, 274 ---- declared to be incipient instinct, 256 _Reel_, _au_, Buffon's use of these words, 126 Relativity of the sciences, Buffon on the, 140 Religion, Buffon's appeals to, 91, 115 Reopen settled questions, animals cannot, serpents must have no more than four legs, 303 Resume earlier habits, the tendency to, on the approach of a difficulty, 312, 313 Retrogressive, Mr. Darwin's views of evolution retrogressive, 66 Revelation, Buffon's appeals to, against evolution, 91, 115 Reviews of "Evolution, Old and New," 385, &c. Riches, the normal growth of, and evolution, 222 Roman Empire, the, prophetic, 397 Romanes, G. R., on "Evolution, Old and New," 391-393 Rome, Church of, means the same by "gentleman" as we do, 395 ---- I would join, if I could, 395, 396 ---- a unifier, 398 ---- the only source from which a church can come, 398-401 ---- and Pantheism, the ultimate fight will be between, 401 ---- points of agreement between Rome and Pantheists, 403-405 ---- may, and should get rid of Protestantism by outbidding it, 407 Rousseau, Buffon would not play part of, 81 Rudimentary organs, the crux of the early evolutionist in respect of design, 34 ---- are now mere cant formulae, force of habit, 38, 383 ---- like the protuberance at the bottom of a tobacco-pipe, 38 ---- Buffon would not accept them as designed, 83 ---- Buffon on, 120 ---- Professor Haeckel on, 383 Run, how did the winner come to be able to run ever such a little faster than his fellows, 367 Runners in a race and natural selection, 366, 367 "SANDFORD and Merton," Miss Seward on the author of, 179, 180 Saints will commonly strain a point or two in their own favour, 253 _Saturday Review_ on "Evolution, Old and New," 389-391 Savery, Captain, 54 Science, men of, of like passions with other priests and prophets, 253 ---- not a kingdom into which a poor man can enter easily, 253 ---- the leaders of will generally burke new-born wit unless, &c., 315 ---- not of that kind which desires to know, 392 Scientific orthodoxy and mystification, Buffon on, 138