INDEX 



ABORIGINAL tribes, disappearance 

 of, 175. 



Adam, creation of, 216 ; so called 

 fall of, 218, 219, 221. 



Adams, Brooks, 280 ; on capital, 

 282 ; on bankers, 283 ; see " Law 

 of Civilization and Decay." 



Air, and Ether, 61 ; percentage of 

 Argon to, 71 ; action of, on dead 

 animal or vegetable matter, 147, 

 182 ; what constitutes, 287 ; 

 liquid, 290, 291. 



" Alterations of Personality," 

 Binet, quoted, on attention, 126 ; 

 on personal changes, 140. 



Altruism, 259, 277, 281. 



Ammonites, 194. 



Amphibians, 99, 100, 190; in 

 Triassic system, 193. 



Animals, worship of, 160; first 

 appearance of fossil, 186, 187; 

 in Silurian times, 188 ; in Car- 

 boniferous times, 190; in the 

 Triassic age, 192, 193; in the 

 Jurassic age, 194-196 ; in the 

 Cretaceous seas, 198; in the 

 Tertiary age, 199, 200 ; in the 

 London Clay, 201 ; in the Oli- 

 gocene strata, 202 ; in the Mio- 

 cene strata, 202; in the Pliocene 

 strata, 203 ; in the Glacial 

 period, 205. 



Anthropogeny, 267. 



Ape, 176-178; manlike, 202; man's 

 descent from, 217. 



Archbishop of Canterbury on the 

 Education of the World, 221, 222. 



Argon, percentage to air, 71 ; 

 component parts of, 72 ; free 

 atomic matter, 84. 



Arnold, Matthew, on religion, 223. 



Atmosphere, pressure of the, 112. 



Atoms, 3 ; species of, 4, 31, 34 ; 

 matter consists of, 21, 134; are 

 eternal, 23, 25, 134, 137; com- 

 bine to form molecules, 32 ; 

 Hicks on, 49 ; forms and initial 

 functions of, 53 ; hydrogen and 

 oxygen, 54; number of species 

 unknown, 67, 77; gaseous, 146; 

 factors in life, 149 ; Laing on, 

 173 ; the fundamental, 178. 



Attraction particle, the, 81. 



Avogadro'ei Law in chemistry and 

 physics, 57. 



BAIN, Alexander, definition of 

 religion, 223. 



Ball, Sir R. S., on the fixed stars, 

 8-10; on invisible orbs, 11-13; 

 on man in other planets, 18; 

 on molecules, 21 ; see " In the 

 High Heavens." 



Ballantine, Serjeant, on the 

 criminal classes, 258. 



Bessel, 11. 



Bible, the Great Stone, 159, 165, 

 181, 212, 221 ; first book of, 183- 

 191; second book of, 191-199; 

 third book of, 199-203; fourth 

 book of, 203-205 ; human period 

 of the, 205-211 ; a spurious, 

 written by man, 212 ; Laing on 

 the, 212, 214; myths, legends 

 and parables of the, 216, 218, 219. 



Binet, Alfred, see " Alterations of 

 Personality," 126, 140. 



Biology, 173, 245, 263.. . 



Birds, first appearance on the 

 earth of, 195; found in the 

 Cretaceous period, 198 ; found 

 in the London Clay, 201 ; found 

 in the Oligocene rocks, 202, 



