Roscoe, Sir H.--on artificial production of protoplasm, 62
Salamander, embryological features, 193
_Salix polaris_, its specific stability, 164, 222
Saporta, Comte de--on parallel development of animal and vegetable life, 228;
on the problem of Creation, 268
Schoolmen, the--on relation of soul and body, 132
Scorpion, maternal and unfilial instincts, 122
Selous, Mr. E.--exemplifies Monistic doctrines, 139 n.
Sensation and consciousness,--origin of, 67
Snakes, embryological features, 194
Species, on evolutionary principles must each derive from a single origin, 210;
isolation of, 211;
and genera, 244 n.
Specific stability in Nature, 164
Spencer, Mr. Herbert--on the beginning of life, 56;
his "Formula of Evolution," 145;
on the process of organic evolution, 147
Spontaneous Generation. See _Life, origin of_
Stephen, Sir L.--on materialism, 78
Stewart, Prof. Balfour--on finite duration of the world, 1;
on dissipation of energy, 25.
See also _Stewart and Tait_
Stewart and Tait--on self-evidence of theism, 104, 273
Stirling, Mr.--on protoplasm, 59, 61
Stokes, Sir G. G.--on evidence for design, 104
Suarez--on creative power and natural law, 207
Substance, law of, 13, 14, 22, 23, 33, 41, 118
Survival of the fittest, and organic progression, 186
Tait, Prof. P.--On the scope of science, 18, 20;
on force and energy, 23 n.;
on the properties of matter, 39;
on "pseudoscience," 40;
on scientific methods, 47;
on mechanical theories of life, 65.
See also _Stewart and Tait_.
Teleology--98 _seq._
Theism, 97 _seq._, 277
Thiselton-Dyer, Sir W.--on protoplasm, 60-62
_Thyroid_ gland--its lesson, 191 n.
Time, as a factor in Evolution, 80, 169
Transformism, 142, etc.
See _Evolution, organic_
_Triton alpestris_, 195
Tyndall, Prof.--on the material origin of life, 38;
on the beginning of life, 46;
on scientific method, 47;
on spontaneous generation, 54-56;
on the potentialities of matter, 54;
on mind and matter, 133
Ungulates, structure of limbs, 241
Variation, the basis of Darwin's calculations, 162;
its limitations, _ibid._;
minute at each stage, 165
_Verbum mentale_, 76
Vines, Prof. S. H.--on speculations and facts, 185;
on the present status of the Darwinian theory, 202;
on our present knowledge, 237
Virchow, Prof.--on the beginning of life, 46;
on spontaneous generation, 65
Vogt, Carl--on embryology, 194;
on Haeckel's genealogies, 264
Wallace, Mr. A. R.--on breaches of natural causation, 64;
on the origin of life, _ibid._;
on the origin of animal life, 69, 70
Weismann, Prof.--on our intellectual need for causality, 101
Weldon, Prof.--on Huxley's scientific method, 21, 197
Whales, appearance of, 257
Whitney, Prof.--on origin of language, 79
Will, the only cause known to us, 99, 100.
See also _Free-will_
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