Superficial, philosophy of the, 34, 35, 36, 198, 204 Supply and demand, and desire and power, 223, 300 Survival of the fittest, a synonym for natural selection, 9 ---- Dr. Erasmus Darwin on the, 227 ---- in the struggle for existence, Lamarck on the, 281, 282 ---- understood and admitted by Buffon, Erasmus Darwin, and Lamarck, 301 ---- subsequent to modification, and therefore not the cause of it, 302, 346 ---- Patrick Matthew on, 321 ---- this is not a theory, but a fact, 356, 357 Swimming, no shore bird ever set itself to learn, of malice prepense, 48, 51 TAIL, the beaver's, has become an incarnate trowel, 8 Teething, the pain an infant feels is the death-cry of many a good cell, 75 Teleological, failure of the early evolutionists to see their position as, 34 Teleology, statement of the question, 1 ---- Aristotle denied, Plato upheld, 4 ---- the, of Paley and the theologians, 12, &c. ---- internal as much teleology as external, 36 ---- _See_ also "Design." Telescope, Lord Rosse's, and dew-drop, 44, 47 Tempering, the felicitous, of two great contradictory principles, 35 Tendon, a slit in one, to let another pass through, 20 Terminology of botany harder than botany, 108 ---- Buffon on, 140, 141 Test, Buffon's, as to the name an object is to bear, 115 ---- of perception and sensation, Buffon's, 127 Theological writer, few passages in any, displease me more, &c., 368 Theory, the survival of the fittest is a fact, not a theory, 356, 357 Theories, true, Fontenelle on, 22, 23 ---- to be ordered out of court if troublesome, 35 This: "I can no more believe in this," &c., 359 ---- "it is impossible to attribute to this cause," 358 Thomas, St., Aquinas, Papal encyclical on, 402, 403 Thomson, Sir W., natural selection and design, 10 Thought is expressed in organ, 339, 341 Time, Buffon on, 103 ---- Lamarck on, 241 Tobacco-pipe, a rudimentary organ on a, 38 Toes, a man who plays the violin with his, 50 Tools, organs are living tools, 2 ---- the manufacture of, and that of organs, two species of the same genus, 39 Touch, all senses modifications of the sense of touch, 47 Transformation of species, Buffon on the causes or means of, 159 Translation of the "Loves of the Plants" into French, 63, 258, 259 Translation of the "Zoonomia" into German, 71 ---- of Dr. E. Darwin's other works, 195 Trapa Natans, Erasmus Darwin's note on, 260 Treviranus alluded to, 72 Tree, life seen as a tree, by Lamarck, 269 ---- by C. Darwin, 270 ---- nature compared to a, by Buffon, 171 Trees, the blind man who saw men as trees walking, 137 Trowel, the beaver has an incarnate trowel, 8 True, vitally, 227 ---- all very, as far as it goes (that Nature is the most important means of modification), 369 Truism, the survival of the fittest, a, 351 Tutbury bull running, 187 Tyndall, Professor, a rhapsody about C. Darwin, 41 ---- calls evolution C. Darwin's theory, 360, 361