Education, study of laws of evolution, as part of, 125 Educational uses of hypnotism and suggestion, 220 Egg. See _Ovum_. _Eimer, Dr. G. H._, 71, 79 _et seq._, 90 Embryo, how parental properties communicated to, 69 Embryology, importance of, 103 Energy, bodily, use and abuse of, 153 Environment, adaptation to, necessary for health, 149 Epigenesis, theory of, 104 Esquirol on the effects of the French Revolution over children, 200 Ethics of the body, hygiene as the, 160 Evolution, a superior race produced by, 130 _et seq._ Evolution, meaning of the term, 210 Evolution of the horse, 102 Evolution, study of laws of, as part of education, 125 Evolutionary theories, conflict of, with humane sentiments, 145 _et seq._ Example, influence of, over children, 18 Exercise, transmission of effects of, 111 Experiment in race improvement by Noyes, 37 _et seq._ Explanation of the action of hypnotic suggestion, 221 Family life, abolition of, in Plato's Republic, 10 Father rule should be combined with mother rule, 213 Fatherhood, too little importance assigned to, 212 Feeble constitutions prevent numerous offspring, 147 Fertilization essential to true germ plasm, 165 Fertilization, nature of, 166 _Fison, Lorimer_, 42 Fitness for survival, characteristics of, 140 Flat head Indians and heredity, 213 Flat head and round head tribes, comparison between, 213 Flat head not transmitted to offspring, 213 Flattening the skull, injurious effect of on health, 214 _Flint, Dr. Austin_, 88 Food, how it affects germ plasm, 173 Food (certain) injurious influence of, 94 Foot, compression of, by Chinese ladies, 20 Fosterage, 96 French Revolution, evil effects of over children, 200 _Galton, Francis_, 46, 50, 73, 106, 135, 170 Gemmules, essential to pangenesis, 105, 106 Generation, influences over, at time of conception, 57, 58 Generation, influences over, subsequent to conception, 58 Generative powers, debilitation of the, 84 Germ plasm and heredity, 107, 162 Germ plasm, continuity of the, 73, 74 _et seq._, 107, 118 Germ plasm, how affected by food, 173 Germ plasm, modification of the, 76, 80 Germ variations, causes of, 81 Gestation (period of) importance of pleasant surroundings during, 93 Gestation, maternal influence during, 96 Gestation, strong emotion during, effect of, 63, 94 Gestation, uterine disturbances during, 93 Girls, physical training of, among Spartans, 14 Girls, mortality among, smaller than with boys, 136 Great mothers, how constituted, 208 Group marriage of Australian natives, 21 _Haeckel, Ernst_, 109 _Harvey_, 103 _Haycraft, John Berry_, 143 Head flattening, 20 Health, action of nature in relation to, 130 Health, transmission of, by thought transference, to young sick child, 224 Healthy localities enable the healthiest offspring to be reared, 210