Character, improvement by suggestion, method to be employed by parents for, 223 Character of children affected by war, 201 Characteristics, origin of, through sexual selection, 134 _Charles, Havelock_, 116 Chickamauga Camp, prostitution at, 202 Children acquire special aptitudes from mothers, 205 Child bearing, best age for, 170 Children, breeding of, in Plato's Republic, 11, 12 Children considered as belonging to the State, 10 _et seq._, 22 Children, deaths of, in New York city, 139 Children, healthy, essentials for having, 168 Children, interests of unborn, 199 Children, characteristics of, in the Oneida Community, 39 Children in the Oneida Community, care of, 38 Children, mortality among, 136 Children, obstacle of war to production and training of, 203 Child training aided by suggestion, 214 _et seq._ Children, training of, 16 _et seq._, 52 Civil War and how it affected the character of children, 201 Co-adaptation of parts as evidence of transmission of acquired characters, 116 Coalescence of sperm and germ cells, 166 Concentrative power, want of, cured by hypnotic suggestion, 216 Conduct, knowledge of its object, not possessed by animals, 210 Congenital characters, transmission of, 177 Congenital deformities, 80 Consanguineous marriages among the Greeks, 23 Consanguineous marriages, regulations as to, among uncultured peoples, 21, 42 Consanguineous marriages, effect on offspring, 42 Constitution, bodily, improvement of the, 150 Consumption, causes of, 176 Consumption, tendency to, whether a bar to marriage, 176 Contentment, value of, 95 Continuity of germ-plasm, 107, 118 Co-operation, hygienic value of, 156 _et seq._ _Cope, Prof. E. D._, 59, 69 Cousins, marriage between, 43 Couvade, custom of the, 63 _et seq._ Crimes, increase of, caused by war, 201 _Darwin, Charles_, 28, 30 _et seq._, 73, 75, 85, 100, 105, 106, 109, 141, 179, 184 Death, causes of, 150 Deformities, congenital, 80 Degeneracy of the breasts and motherhood, 208 Degeneracy in offspring due to maternal degeneracy evidenced by inability to nurse a child, 208 Degeneration, evidence of, 140 Development of breasts after marriage and parentage, 209 Diseases, influence of hygiene over, 159 Diseases, inheritance of, 80 Diseases which affect offspring, 175 Disposition spiritualized through marriage of chastity, 210 Disproportion between accidental causes and effects, 68, 90 Diversity between offspring and parents, causes of, 58 Domestication of animals, 9 _Doutrebente, Prof._, 92 Drink, influence of, over offspring, 16 _Duncan, J. C. Mathews_, 170 Education, beneficial effects of hypnotism in, 215 Education and heredity, 111 _et seq._ Education and non-transmission of acquired characters, 124 Education of Spartan children, 15 Education, Plutarch on, 17