God the first principle and unconditioned cause of all existence, 27; the content of our conception of, 27; the idea of, a phenomenon of the universal intelligence of our race, 28; idea and concept of, 350; harmony of the Biblical and philosophic conception of, 46, 47; distinction between the nature and essence of, 62, 63; not necessarily but freely just and good, 63; immanence of, in nature, 174, 175, 240, 241. Government of God, distinction between physical, natural, and moral, 367, 368. Gravitation--attraction not a universal and necessary attribute of matter, 191, 211-213; must have a cause, 214; transmitted by the ether, 215; instantaneous, 215; cause of, not material, 216; a derivative force, 221. Grecian civilization the youth of humanity, 280-282. Grove on causation, 39; on force, 340. H. Hamilton, Sir William, confounds space and extension, 72; also space and immensity, 73; confuses the concepts time, duration, and eternity, 76; on the inconceivability of an absolute commencement, 93. Harmony between the philosophic conception of force and the religious conception of God, 338-343. Hebrew civilization the childhood of humanity, 278-280. Hedge, Dr., on the immanence of God in nature, 186. Hegel on Thought as the supreme reality, 25. Helmholtz denies direct action at a distance, 214. Herschel, Sir John, his conception of matter, 95, 125, 237; on force, 39, 341; on universal gravitation, 191; on law, 198; on conservation of energy, 205, 206. History a revelation of Divine providence, 246; the goal of, is the perfection of humanity, 248; the especial field of Divine providence, 253. Human race commenced its history in the Temperate Zone, 264-268; distribution of the, not governed by the same law as the distribution of plants and animals, 272; distribution of, indicates a Providential guidance, 273. Human freedom and Divine omnipotence, 355-359; and Divine prescience, 402-405. Humanity, perfection of, in what does it consist? 248, 249. I. Immanence of God in nature, 174, 175, 240, 241; the doctrine of, not pantheistic, 241, 242. Immanent attributes of God, 50; an eternal and necessary in being, 52. Immensity an attribute of God, 75, 81, 83, 84. Inertia of matter, 220, 235. Infinite series a contradiction _in adjecto_, 90. Interception of force by matter, 220. L. Laplace on the stability of the solar system, 113. Laurent on Providence, 247. Law, creation by, 196; meaning of the term, 197-200. Laycock, Dr., on the law of design, 129; on life, 192; on science, 195. Life, distinction between molecular and individual, 163; molecular, the result of the immediate presence and agency of God, 239; the cause, not the consequence of organization, 240. Love the highest, determining principle of the Divine efficiency, 130, 131. M.