Fabre, M.--on Darwin's facts, 200 n.;
on our ignorance of Nature, 203
Faraday, Prof.--on gravitation, 125
Final causality (Teleology), 98 _seq._
First Cause, the object of inference, 96, 97;
nature of as shown by reason, 270 _seq._
Fish, appearance of, 225;
problems presented by, 233
Flight, problem of, 93
Flower, Sir W.--on the extinct American horse, 254
Force, nature of, 23
Free-will, Prof. Haeckel on, 33, 81;
Dr. Johnson on, 84
Fuegians, mental likeness to ourselves, 72
Garnett, Prof.--on force, 23
Gaudry, M.--on ancestry of whales, 257;
of bats, 258;
of proboscidians, 259
Genera and species, 244 n.
_Generatio aequivoca_, 65
Generation, mysteries of, 123 _seq._
Geological formations, succession of, 213
Geological record, 216, 264, _seq._
Giraffe, evolution of, 154
Glass, fortuitously discovered, 115
Goethe--on "iron law," 14
Gore, Dr. G.--on machinery as excluding idea of design, 118
"Grand Question," the, 96
Grimthorpe, Lord (Sir E. Beckett)--on matter, 37; on the problem of flight, 93;
on evidences of purpose, 94;
on generation, 124;
on the structure of the eye, 155 n.
Gymnosperms, appearance of, 219
Haeckel, Prof. E.--on "rational view of the world," 10-14;
on the "magic word evolution," 16;
on scientific method, 18, 20;
on the law of substance, 13, 23;
on the conservation of energy, 23, 24, 26;
on the "Seven Enigmas," 33;
on the nature and properties of matter, 35, 39;
on the artificial manufacture of protoplasm, 59;
on free-will and determinism, 81;
on design in Nature, 90, 150;
on chance, 117;
on Monism, 128;
on annihilation as a desirable end, 130;
on the ultimate reality, 135;
unfounded claims on behalf of Darwin, 150;
bases arguments on lack of knowledge, 183;
on rudimentary organs and "Dysteleology," 190;
on single origin of every species, 210;
on the appearance of the _Apetalæ_, 221;
invents geological "ante-periods," 236;
and intermediate forms, 261;
his pedigree of man, 261;
his method of solving the riddles of Nature, 264
Heredity, 83, 99
Herschel, Sir J.--on molecules as manufactured articles, 89;
on evidence of mind in Nature, 100;
on gravitation, 125
_Hesperornis_, 171
Heurtin, Marie, 77
_Hippops_, 246, 252
Hird, Mr. D.--on the omnipotence of Evolution, 14;
on transformations of force, 129
Holland, Sir H.--on structure of ear, 93
Homer, a "half-savage Greek," 69 n.
_Homo alalus_, and _sapiens_, 81
Horse, structure of, 94, 240
Genealogy of, 236, 241 _seq._
Hudson, Dr.--on neglect of
study of present life in favour of evolutionary speculations, 185
Humboldt, W. von--on human speech, 76
Hutton, F. W.--on finite duration of the world, 2;
and of the universe, 28;
on dissipation of energy, 27 n.
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