_Cosmos_ and its Cause, 86 _seq._
Croll, Mr.--on force and its determination, 94-96
Crookes, Sir W.--on renovation of energy, 26;
on radium and radio-activity, 42, 43
Cryptogamous plants, fossil history, 219
Crystallization, 63, 64
Darwin, Mr.--on the "law of continuity," 57;
on spontaneous generation, 58;
on the mental gulf between man and brute, 71;
on the origin of language, 79, 178;
on "creation," 91;
on the structure of the eye, 91;
on chance as a factor of the world, 116;
on pain and suffering as an objection to design, 119;
disclaims achievements attributed to him, 150;
his system, 153 _seq._ (see _Darwinism_);
his mode of arguing, 178;
dogmatism, 179;
pleads lack of knowledge as an argument, 182;
on single origin of every species, 210, 254;
on genealogy of the Horse, 259;
on the imperfection of the geological record, 264
Darwinism, 149 _seq._;
false representations of, 149-151;
sketch of system, 151-157;
facts favouring, 158-160;
difficulties of, 160 _seq._;
explains no origins, 161;
ignores the prime factor, _ibid._;
improbabilities, 166, 173;
does not explain initial developments, 170 _seq._;
nor artistic ornamentation, 175;
specious arguments too easily forthcoming, 177;
does not account for organic progression, 187;
scientific opinions concerning, 198 _seq._, 281
Dawson, Sir J. W.--on the first origin of life, 208;
on the history of animal life, 223; on genealogy of the _Equidæ_, 247;
of the _Cetacea_, 257;
of bats,
258;
on lack of palæontological evidence for evolution, 260
Design, evidence of, in Nature, 90, 97 _seq._;
Kant on the necessity of, 150
Determination of force, its necessity, 94-96, 114
Determinism of the will, 81 _seq._
Development of organic types, 146
Dicotyledons, appearance of, 220
Diderot--on evidence of intelligence in Nature, 125
_Dinotherium_, classification of, 259 n
Dogs, their vocal expression of emotions, 73
Du Bois-Reymond, Herr,--on the "Seven Enigmas," 31-33;
on the progress of human development, 68, 69;
on Haeckel's genealogies, 264
_Dysteleology_, 190
Ear, structure of, 93
_Electrons_, 42
Elephant and Tortoise of Hindu astronomy, 107
Embryology and Evolution, 158-160, 192 _seq._
"Energy," 23; conservation of, _ibid._;
dissipation of, 24 _seq._;
renovation of, 26-28
"Enigmas, the Seven," 32
_Entropy_, 25
_Equidæ_. See _Horse_
Ether, a constituent of the universe, 36
Evil, Origin of, the darkest of mysteries, 120
"Evolution," different meanings of term, 8;
as an operative law, 10-14;
eternal, 11;
as a philosophy, 22 _seq._;
formula of, 145
As a process, 45 _seq._
Organic, 142 _seq._;
essential characters of theory, 147, 206;
nature of evidence required, 208 _seq._;
history of in vegetable and animal kingdoms, 216 _seq._
Eye, origin of, 91, 154
Helmholtz, on defects of, 91 n.;
structure of, 155 n.;
evolution of, 168
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