Bioplasm, or cell-life, 162, 163. Brooke, Prof., on conservation of energy, 205. Büchner, Dr., asserts the eternity of matter and force, 24. C. Calderwood, Prof., on consciousness of freedom, 382. Carpenter, Dr., on will as the type of all force, 39, 237; on distinction between molecular and somatic life, 163, 236; on the forces of nature as modes of the Divine action, 240. Catastrophes, common belief in, 100; sustained by science, 101, 102. Categories, universal, 41. Causative principle, the, must be real, efficient, and personal, 44. Chalmers's, Dr., incautious concession as to the eternity of matter, 86. Character, the formation of perfect, noble--the highest end, 306, can only be attained under conditions of freedom, 308, and through the inspiration of a higher life, 309, 310. Christian civilization the age of philanthropy, 285-290. Cicero on a universal and immutable moral law, 379. Civilization, each epoch of, has had a different theatre, 275; stages of development in, 277-290. Clarke, Dr. Samuel, on immediate agency of God in conservation, 178. Cohn, Dr., on nature, 333. Coleridge on nature, 325; on the natural, 369. Comte on irregular variability in nature, 195, 329. Conditions of moral government, 371, 372. Conscience, its nature and authority, 372-377; its gradual development, 377. Consciousness, religions, 304, 305, 345; natural order of its development, 346-349. Conservation, Biblical doctrine of, 174, 175; conceptions of the mode of conservation, 176. Conservation by secondary causes or agencies, 181, 182; (1) hypothesis of natural law, 187-201; (2) hypothesis of active force inherent in matter, 202-222; (3) hypothesis of plastic nature, 222-235. Conservation of energy not an absolute law, 205, 206; limited by the law of dissipation of energy, 207; not fairly stated by Dr. Tyndall in his discussion on prayer, 331, 332; no evidence that it holds in the realm of vital dynamics and psycho-dynamics, 332; is not absolute in the realm of physics, 332. Continuity of the ether, 217. Correlation between God and man, 344. Creation, Biblical account of, not designed to teach science, 136-138; poetic, symbolical, and unchronological, 138-151. Creation by law, 196. Creation _ex nihilo_, how understood by the Christian Fathers, 92; not discredited by the progress of science, 93. Creation, its history, 126-171; a gradual process, 152-155; cumulative, 156-166; consecutive, 166-171; harmonious, 169, 170; final purpose of creation, 130-133. Creation, the conception of, 56; the Biblical conception of, can not be determined on philological grounds, 56-58; how to be determined, 58-61; distinction between absolute and architectonic, 61; an origination _de novo_, 60, 61; a voluntary act of God, 63-68; not determined by any inherent necessity, 64; not conditioned _ab extra_, 66.