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INDEX. 



BACON, F., his services in founding 

 modern philosophy, i. 112 ; his con 

 demnation of the subjective method, 

 i. 114 ; his rejection of the Copernican 

 astronomy, i. 232. 

 Bagehot, W , ii. 259, 267, 280, 340. 

 Bain, A., on liberty of choice, ii. 179. 

 Barbaric languages, absence of general 



terms in, ii. 308. 



Barratt, A., on final causes, ii. 397, 402. 

 Bastian, H. C., i. 129, 425. 

 Bathybius, i. 426. 

 Beale on Cancers, i. 343. 

 Belief, double sense of the word, i. 61. 

 Berkeley, i. 74, 117. 

 Bernard, Claude, i. 244. 

 Berzelius, overthrow of his dualistio 



theory, i. 225. 

 Besspl measures parallax of 61 Cygni, i. 



249. 



Bichat, i. 199. 

 Biogeny, i. 221. 



Biology, i. 37, 41, 113 ; when constituted 

 as a science, i. 199 ; a concrete science, 

 i. 213 ; scope of, i. 221 ; difficulty of 

 experimentation in, i. 243 ; pre-emi- 

 iiently the science of classification, i. 

 244. 



Birds, carinate and struthious, ii. 51. 

 Blainville s attempts at linear classifica 

 tion, i. 449. 



&quot;Blind force&quot; and &quot; intelligent per 

 sonality,&quot; ii. 429. 



Borda s pendulum experiment, i. 237. 

 Botany as related to biology, i. 212. 

 Boyle and Mariotte, their law of pres 

 sures and densities, i. 206. 

 Bradley s discovery of aberration, i. 204. 

 Brain increases in heterogeneity with 



mental labour, ii. 140. 

 Brain-action, new theory of, ii. 141. 

 Brewster s optical discoveries, i. 206. 

 Bridges, J. H., i. 252, 259 ; ii. 248. 

 Broussais, ii. 74. 

 Brown, Thomas, i. 53. 

 Bruno, Giordano, ii. 375. 

 Buckle, H. T., his lack of the historic 

 sense, i. 165 ; on Mohammedan civiliza 

 tion, ii. 200 ; his philosophy of history, 

 ii. 229. 



Buchner, L., i. 123 ; ii. 435. 

 Butterflies and their colours, ii. 25 ; in 

 Celebes and Java, ii, 56. 



CANCERS, i. 198, 343. 



Carbon, its function as a constituent of 



organic matter, i. 331. 

 Carinate birds, ii. 51. 



Cartesian test of truth, i. 99, 108 ; doc 

 trine of causal resemblance, ii. 380 



Cats and humble-bees, i. 308. 



Cats whiskers, ii. 90. 



Causation, universality of, i. 53; source 

 of our belief in, i. 146 ; Hamilton s 

 theory of, i. 148 ; Hume s theory of, i. 

 127, 155 ; hypothesis of occulta vis, i. 

 154 ; does not imply constraint, i. 183 ; 

 volitional theory of, i. 158 ; ii. 390 , 

 Terrier s view of, ii. 183. 



Cause, efficient and phenomenal, i. 154. 



Causes and effects, resemblance of, ii. 386, 



Cavendish s torsion-balance experiment, 

 i. 205. 



Celibacy of clergy, ii. 222. 



Cell-doctrine repudiated by Comte, L 

 247, 251. 



Cephalic ganglia, their increasing im 

 portance, ii. 87. 



Cerebral differences between civilized 

 man and savage, ii. 316. 



Cerebrum and cerebellum, size of in dif 

 ferent animals, ii. 133 ; functions of, 

 ii. 137. 



Chalons, battle of, ii. 262. 



Chambers, G., his obituary notice of the 

 nebular hypothesis, i. 386. 



Chance and law, ii. 171. 



Chemical heterogeneity of the earth s 

 surface, how brought about, i. 431. 



Chemism, cohesion, and gravity, i. 291. 



Chemistry, i. 34 ; its relations to mine 

 ralogy, i. 189, 212; wherein d.flerent 

 from physics, i. 192, 203 ; when c onsti- 

 tuted as a science, i. 199 ; revolut icnized 

 by Dumas, Laurent, etc., i. 225. 



Chinese, their small foresight, ii. 05 ; 

 primitive structure of their society, 

 ii. 248. 



Christianity, genesis of, ii. 1C9, 206, 218 ; 

 its political effects, ii. 278. 



Christians formerly called atheists, ii. 

 469. 



Cicada and rattlesnake, ii. 29. 



Circulatory system, str.ges of its evolu 

 tion, ii. 145. 



Citizenship in Greece and Rome, ii. 221. 



Civic communities, ii. 117. 



Civilization a process of adaptation, ii. 

 202, 212. 



Clan-societies, their characteristics, it 

 204. 



Classification as dependent on hereditary 

 kin&amp;lt;hip, i. 448. 



Classifying and reasoning, [i. 106. 



Climates, interdependence of, i. 404. 



Clover and humble-bees, i 308. 



Codnsh, their rate of increase, ii IL 



