INDEX 



ABORTION, neutralization of 

 working bees an act of, 250 

 Accessory touches, varying Buffon 



on, 92 



Accident, many of our best thoughts 

 come thoughtlessly, 48, 384 



profiting by, 51, 53 



and discovery of theory con- 

 necting meteors with comets, 

 53 



shaking the bag to see what 



will come out, 53 



effects of, transmitted to off- 

 spring, Dr. Erasmus Darwin, 

 224 



and design, the line between 



these hard to draw, 384 

 Accidental variations thrown for as 



with dice, 3 



Accumulation of variations, C. 

 Darwin deals with the, and 

 not with the origin of, 340, 

 341 



of small divergencies, Buffon 



on the, 103 



Accurate, survival of fittest more 

 accurate than Nat. Sel. and 

 sometimes equally convenient, 9, 

 354, 365 



Act of Parliament, Natural Selec- 

 tion compared to a certain kind 

 of, 358 

 Age, old, the phenomena of, 67, 



^204, 381 

 Aggregation, the spirit of the age 



tends towards, 397, 398 

 Ahead, no organism sees very far, 



44, 48, 54, 384 

 Aldrovandus, Buffon on the learned, 



93 



Alive, tvhen we must not say that 

 an animal is alive (to be 



)e re- 



tracted), 279 



Allen, Grant, on 'Evolution, Old 

 and New,' 386-388 



on the decay of criticism, 388 



calls Evolutionism "an almost 



exclusively English im- 

 pulse," 393 

 Alternations of fat and lean years, 



Buffon on, 125 

 Amoeba, the, did not conceive the 



idea of an eye and work towards 



it, 43, 44, 384 

 Analogies, false, all words are apt 



to turn out to be, 365 

 Animals, contracts among, Dr. E. 



Darwin on, 205 

 Ape, the, and man, 90 

 Apes and monkeys, Buffon on, 153 



and children fall on all-fours 



at the approach of danger, 

 312 

 Apparentibus, de non, et non exis- 



lentibus, &c., 36 

 Appearances, rather superficial, our 



only guide to classification, 34, 



35, 36, 198, 204 

 Appetency, Paley's argument 



against the view that structures 



have been developed through, 



22, 45 

 Aristides, C. Darwin as just as, 



363 



Aristotle denied teleology, 4 

 Artificial and real foot, differences 



between, 25 

 Asceticism, virtue errs on the side 



of excess rather than on that of, 



35 



Ass, the, and horse, Buffon's preg- 

 nant passage on their relation- 

 ship, 80, 90, 91, 100, 101, 142, 



143, 155, 164, 311 

 Authority, a hard thing to weigh, 



253 



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