INDEX. 



419 



Horse and ais, Buffon's most preg- 

 nant passage on the, 80, 90, 

 91, 100, 101, 142, 143, 155, 

 164, 311 



and man, skeleton of the, 88, 



89 



and zebra, Buffon on the, 



example of irony, 80, 155, 

 164 



Hume, his saying that generation 

 is more remarkable than reason, 

 233 



Huxley, Professor, referred to, 93 



pointed out to Professor Mivart 



the difficulty in the way of 

 natural selection, 344 



his ignorance concerning the 



earlier history of evolution, 

 392, 393 



Hybridism, Buffon on, 117, 118 



Hybrids, sterility of, Lamarck en, 

 and 0. Darwin on, 272, 273 



IDEAS, the bond or nexus of our, 

 23, 29, 30 



Ignorance, the prevailing, concern- 

 ing the earlier evolutionists, 

 61 



it is easy to hide our, under 



such expressions as " plan of 

 creation," or natural selec- 

 tion, 358 



Imitation, instinct not referable to, 

 as maintained by Erasmus Dar- 

 win, 202 



Immutability of species and design 

 commonly accepted together, 9, 

 10 



Improvements, small successive, in 

 man's inventions, 44, 46, 47, 54, 

 55, 384 

 Inaccuracy of thought, C. Darwin 



accused of, 359 



Incipiency, of complex structures, 

 a difficulty in the way of the 

 Natural selection view of evolu- 

 tion, 21, 22 

 Incorporate, the designer is, with 



the organism, 30 



Increase, geometrical ratio of Buffon 

 on the, 123 



Lamarck on, 280 



Patrick Matthew on, 320, 321 



Indefinite, with C. Darwin the 



variations are, 342, 344 

 Indifference, 1 say I am more in- 

 different than I think I am, 

 whether mind is or is not the least 

 misleading symbol for the cause 

 that sustains the universe, 371 

 Indirect action of conditions of 

 existence according to Lamarck, 

 294,299,306. (See" Conditions 

 of Existence.") 

 Individuality, Buffon on, 128 



of buds, Erasmus Darwin on 



the, 207, 208 



our, a consensus, or full-flowing 



river, 318 

 Infallibility, possible results of the 



doctrine of Papal, 406 

 Insectivorous plants, Erasmus Dar- 

 win on, 206 



Instep, ligament that binds the 



tendons of the, Paley on the, 22 



Instinct, present, does not bar its 



having arisen in reason and 



reflection, 53, 54 



returns to its earlier phase, 



i.e. to reason on the presence 

 of the unfamiliar, 54, 55, 56 



and reason, Buffon on, 110-116 



Darwin, Erasmus, on, 115, 



116, 204 



not referable to imitation, as 



maintained by Erasmus Dar- 

 win, 202 



is reason become habitual, 203 



reason perfected and got by 



rote, 256 



and reason, Lamarck on, 256, 



257, 274 



referred to experience and 



memory, by Patrick Mat- 

 thew, 322 



Insult, " Evolution, Old and Ne V 

 not intended as an insult to meiv 

 of science, 392 



Interaction of want and power, 44, 

 45,47,217,218,221,300,323 



of body and mind, Lamarck 



on the, 338, 339, 341 

 Interesting, the more interesting 

 the animal the more evolu- 

 tion Buffon puts into his 

 account of it, 84 



