INDEX. 



427 



Resume earlier habits, the tendency 

 to, on the approach of a diffi- 

 culty, 312, 313 

 Retrogressive, Mr. Darwin's views 



of evolution retrogressive, 66 

 Revelation, Buffon's appeals to, 



against evolution, 91, 115 

 Reviews of "Evolution, Old and 



New," 385, &c. 

 Riches, the normal growth of, and 



evolution, 222 



Roman Empire, the, prophetic, 397 

 Romanes, G. R., on "Evolution, 



Old and New," 391-393 

 Rome, Church of, means the same 

 by "gentleman" as we do, 

 3*95 



I would join, if I could, 395, 



396 



a unifier, 398 



the only source from which a 



church can come, 398-401 



and Pantheism, the ultimate 



fight will be between, 401 



points of agreement between 



Rome and Pantheists, 403- 

 405 



may, and should get rid of 



Protestantism by outbidding 

 it, 407 

 Rousseau, Buffon would not play 



part of, 81 



Rudimentary organs, the crux of 

 the early evolutionist in re- 

 spect of design, 34 



are now mere cant formulae, 



force of habit, 38, 383 



like the protuberance at the 



bottom of a tobacco-pipe, 

 38 



Buffon would not accept them 



as designed, 83 



Buffon on, 120 



Professor Haeckel on, 383 



Run, how did the winner come to 

 be able to run ever such a little 

 faster than his fellows, 367 

 Runners in a race and natural 

 selection, 366, 367 



" C ANDFORD and Mertou,"Miss 

 O Seward on the author of, 179, 

 180 



Saints will commonly strain a 



point or two in their own favour, 



253 

 Saturday Review on "Evolution, 



Old and New," 389-391 

 Savery, Captain, 54 

 Science, men of, of like passions with 

 other priests and prophets, 

 253 



not a kingdom into which a 



poor man can enter easily, 

 253 



the leaders of will generally 



burke new-born wit unless, 

 &c., 315 



not of that kind which desires 



to know, 392 



Scientific orthodoxy and mystifica- 

 tion, Buffon on, 138 



danger of, 360, 368 



Scramble, birds learned to swim 



through scrambling, 48, 51 

 Self-indulgence, virtue has ever erred 



rather on the side of, than on that 



of asceticism, 35 

 Sensation, Buffon on, 126, 129 

 Sense, "in one sense," 355 

 Sensitive plants, Dr. E. Darwin on, 



206, 210 



Seriously, Buffon speaking, 126 

 Serpents, how it is that they have 



lost their legs, 302 

 Seward, Miss, her life of Erasmus 



Darwin, 174, &c. 

 Shakspeare and Handel address the 



many as well as the few, 81 

 Shortest day, and shortest day but 



one, no difference perceptible be- 

 tween, 48 

 Skeletons, the, of man and of the 



horse, 88, &c. 



Skill, the unerring, of natural selec- 

 tion, 9 

 Siamese twins, desire and power 



compared to, 218, 300 

 Simplicity, happv, an example of, 



276 

 Sisters, "his, and his cousins and 



his aunts," 253 

 Slit, a slit in one tendon to let 



another pass through, 20 

 Something a man should do, no 



matter what, 51 



