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INDEX 



Blastoderm, the, 93. 



Body, the Wolffian, 94; the human, 

 111-114; changes in the living, 

 138. 



Bone cells, 105. 



Bonney, Professor T. G., 170. 



Bossuet, on the mind, 50. 



Brachiopods, 186, 190. 



Brain, the, 115-127; cells of the, 

 116,143, 144; relative convolu- 

 tions of the, 121 ; experiments 

 on the, 122, 123 ; during sleep, 

 125; law of biogeny applied to, 

 140 ; individual consciousness 

 in, 142 ; comparative mights of, 

 144; development of, 238,252; 

 Biichner on the, 117, 123, 142; 

 Haeckel on, 118, 119, 122, 127, 

 140; Huxley on, 117, 122,123; 

 Laing on, 120, 122, 123, 141 ; 

 Waller on, 117, 118, 124, 125, 

 126. 



British Indin, Frazer, quoted, 262. 



Bromine, 293. 



Bruno, Giordano, on matter, 26. 



Biichner, Dr., on Force and Mat- 

 ter, 26, 35 ; on medicines, 85 ; on 

 the Brain, 117, 123, 142; on 

 physical change, 148 ; on Reli- 

 gion, 160; on the Ethiopian 

 race, 176 ; on Society, 259, 260. 



Burmeistcr on the Brazilians, 259. 



CAIRD, E., on religion, 224. 



Calaveras skull, 206. 



Cambrian Rocks, 185, 186. 



Capital, Marx on, 269. 



Carboniferous strata, 188-191, 192. 



Carlyle, on religion, 224. 



Carpenter, Dr., on the ovum, 90, 

 91, 130 ; on Vital and Physical 

 Activity, 108, 134. 



Cases, remarkable, of human 

 development, 132. 



Cnstelnedolo skull, 206. 



Cells, 3 ; group themselves to form 

 man, 4 ; what are they ? 27 ; for- 

 mation of, 78-83; how multi- 

 plied, 81 ; each a living body, 93, 

 111; homogeneous, 98; growth 

 and decline of, 110'; bone, 105 ; 

 nerve, 113,118; brain, 115-117, 

 139,142-144; male, 129; female, 

 130; power of, 178; form the 



living fish, 186; all organisms 

 built up of, 208, 256. 



Centrifugal force in molecules, 101. 



Chalk, 196; fossils in, 198. 



Chambers' " Encyclopedia" quo- 

 ted, on Conservation of Matter, 

 23 ; on matter, 35 ; on sleep, 

 125; on changes in animals, 

 138; on idols, 160; on religion, 

 223 ; on Jesus Christ, 228. 



Chandler, Mr., on the law of Polar 

 movements, 204. 



Chemistry, the Science of, 14, 24; 

 reaction in, 31, 34 ; elements in, 

 68 ; of the egg, 99. 



Chemistry, the new, 48; on boiling 

 water, 56 ; on gas in water, 68. 



Child, the, before birth, 91-95 ; in- 

 fluences on the, 131, 132; after 

 birth, 102-104; hereditary pecu- 

 liarities in, 131 ; gradual de- 

 velopment of mind in, 139, 277. 



Chlorine, experiment with, 293. 



Christ, Jesus, our limited know- 

 ledge of, 228 ; teaching of, 233, 

 236, 239, 240. 



Christianity, 152 ; commercial, 

 160; denned, 225-227; origin 

 of, 228 ; miracles the basis of, 

 231 ; leads to hypocrisy, 232 ; 

 outgrown, 272. 



Civilization, social, 153, 245, 247, 

 257, 259; Western, 175; pro- 

 gressive, 263. 



Clark, Alvan, 11. 



Classes, the, moneyed, 253; 

 pauper, 254; criminal, 258; 

 educated, 264, 265; social, 259, 

 268 ; capitalist, 269 ; working, 

 278. 



Clay, London, 201 ; fossils in, 201. 



Coal, 188, 189. 



Comets, 17. 



Communication, modern rapidity 

 of, 274. 



Comte on religion, 223. 



Convolutions of the brain, 121. 



Cooke, Professor, quoted, 48, 56 

 (see "the New Chemistry "). 



Copernicus, 152,229. 



Cortex cerebri, 114, 118, 121, 144. 



" Crania Ethnica," quoted, 206. 



Creation, the, 212-216; miraculous, 

 210 ; portions of the Bible 

 relating to, untrue, 214, 229 ; 



