Cudworth on a plastic nature, 222-225. D. Days of the creative week, 145-151. Defects in nature, supposed, not removed by hypothesis of unconscious intelligence, 232, 233; this supposition based upon our ignorance of nature as a whole, 233-235. Descartes, his conception of God, 29. Dissipation of mechanical energy, 120, 121, 207-209. Dualism, Oriental, 23. Duration not identical with time, 77; nor with eternity, 77; a quality of dependent existence, 81; a fact of consciousness, 82. E. Earth, secular cooling of the, 105-108; indications of surface transformations of the, 108, 109. Earth, the, a school-house for man, 258. End of moral government, 417-419. Energy, conservation, transformation, and dissipation of, 118, 119; defined, 194; distinction between force and energy, 203; laws of conservation and transformation limited by the law of dissipation, 207-209; cases of transformation, 237; all the forms of energy are transformations of one Omnipresent force, 237. Eternity an attribute of God, 77, 83, 84. Ether, hypothesis of the, 113; a resisting medium, 114, 115; absolute continuity of the, 217, 218. Experience can not attain to a universal truth, 190. Extension a quality of matter, 81; not a predicate of space, 79; a percept of sense, 81. F. Faraday on the possible and the impossible, 195; on action at a distance, 214. Final purpose of creation revealed in Scriptures, 130-133; not discoverable by science, 234, 245. Force defined, 203, 236; the ultimate of all ultimates, according to Spencer, 25; theory that matter is a phenomenon of force, 123; the power of God, 123; distinct from energy, 203; not inherent in matter, 219, 236; tendency of modern scientists to hypostatize, 227; spirit-force the only force, 236, 237, 341; a metaphysical idea, 340; the expression of will, 341. Forces, primary, of nature, 209; a perpetual stream of power from the Infinite Spirit, 221, 222. Foreknowledge of God and human freedom, 402-405. Formation implies origination, 97. Free self-determining power of the will, 380, 387; arguments against--(1) Metaphysical or causational, 387, 392; (2) Psychological, 392-402; (3) Theological, 402-405; conceded by Dr. Tyndall, 335. Freedom of God, absolute, 63. G. Galton on the efficacy of prayer, 313. Geographical conditions, their influence on the character of nations, 258-264. Geology points back to a beginning, 104-110. Geological changes indicate a preparation for man, 254-257. God, omnipotence of, and human freedom, 355-359. God the author and giver of life, 240. God, the existence of, the fundamental postulate of all philosophy and all religion, 291, 292. God, the fatherhood of, 359-365.