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INDEX. 



Specialist*, narrowness of, i. 241. 



Specios, bifurcation of, ii. 18. 



Spoctrum-analysis, i. 202, 207, 249; its 

 latest indications, i. 388 ; enables us to 

 measure the direct approach or reces 

 sion of a star, i. 487. 



Spencer, Herbert, his greatness as a psy 

 chologist, i. 163 ; his refutation of the 

 theory of the &quot; Three Stages,&quot; i. 173 ; 

 his refutation of the Comtean classifica 

 tion , i. 204; his distinction between 

 al&amp;gt;stractness and generality, i. 214 ; 

 his triple division of sciences, i. 216 ; 

 his opinion of Comte s speculations, i. 

 227 ; comparison of his achievements 

 with Newton s, i. 326, 351 ; his ex 

 planation of the retrograde rotation of 

 Uranus, i. 365 ; his hypothesis regard 

 ing the asteroids, i. 370 ; his theory of 

 the distribution of nebulae, i. 388 ; on 

 the functions of cerebrum and cere 

 bellum, ii. 138 ; on the genesis of 

 nervous systems, ii. 146 ; &quot; Ideas do 

 not govern the world,&quot; ii. 242 ; emen 

 dation of his phrase &quot; nervous shock,&quot; 

 ii. 444; his refutation of materialism, 

 ii. 446 ; description of the state of 

 Bociety toward which we are progress 

 ing, ii. 495. 



Spinoza, i. 24 ; erroneousness of his 

 method, i. 116 ; produced a crisis in 

 philosophy, i. 117 ; on the personality 

 of God. ii. 409. 



Spirit, ii. 395, 449. 



Spirits in pharmacy, i. 197. 



&quot; Spiritualism,&quot; superstition of, ii. 379, 



Spontaneous generation, i. 12J, 243. 



Stahl,i. 127, 419. 



Statical and dynamical habits of thought, 

 ii. 371, 473. 



Status and contract, ii. 221. 



Stimulu-, metaphysical doctrine of, L 

 197 ; dynamically denned, i. 412, 



Stewart, Balfour, i. 30 5. 



Struggle for life, ii. 12. 



Struthious birds, ii. 67. 



Subjective method denned, i. 98. 



Subsidence and elevation, ii. 39. 



Sun, source of his heat, i. 359 ; must ulti 

 mately become cold, i. 392. 



Bun-spots and rain-fall, i. 4u6. 



Sympathetic nerve, its action on th* 

 &quot;bloodvessels, i. 306. 



Sympathy, ii. 352. 



TACTILE sensations, how compounded, ii; 



129. 

 Tactual sense, in man and lobster, i. 17. 



Taine, H. A.,ii. 123. 



Tear and larme, i. 446. 



Teleological hypothesis, its logical weak 

 ness, ii. 385; overthrown by the dis 

 covery of natural selection, ii. 397 J 

 origin of, ii. 399. 



Tennyson, ii. 85, 462. 



Theism, i. 7 ; does not necessarily imply 

 personality of God, ii. 424. 



&quot; Theological,&quot; sometimes unfortunately 

 used by Comte, i. 196. 



Thermodynamics, i. 34. 



Thought and phosphorus, ii. 436 ; wherein 

 dependent on solar radiations, i, 413. 



Three stages, Comte s theory of, L 168 ; 

 ii. 238, 245, 478. 



Tides, rhythm of, i, 305 ; checking pla 

 netary rotation, i. 359, 393. 



Timaios of Piato, i. 102. 



Timbre, or quality of sound, source of, ii. 

 125. 



Torricelli s discovery of atmospheric pres 

 sure, i. 209. 



Toxodon, ii. 41. 



Transit-lines in brain, ii. 139. 



Transitional forms, alleged paucity of, ii. 

 33. 



Transubstantiation and transaccidenta- 

 tion, i. 123. 



Trees in Europe and America, ii. 55. 



Truth, test of, i. 11, 4571, 286 ; ii. 162; 

 definition of, i. 45 ; ii. 246 ; does not 

 apply where experience is transcended. 

 ill;ii. 31)1. 



UNDULATION, how necessitated, i. 300. 



Undulatory theory of light, i. 300. 



Unembodied spirit, ii. 395. 



Uniformity of belief and practice, its 

 dangers, ii. 273. 



Unit of mind. ii. 131. 



Universal proposition inferred from single 

 instance, i. 55. 



Universe, origin of, i. 6 ; how far un 

 knowable, i. 15 ; ii. 413. 



Unknowable, doctrine of, rejected by 

 Positivism, i 82, 169, 262 ; misunder 

 standings to which the term has given 

 rise, ii. 469. 



Uranus, his retrograde rotation, i. 356, 

 365. 



Use and disuse, ii. 17. 



VERIFICATION, i. 108, 127. 

 Vibration of particles, i. 20, 47. 

 Vibrissse, ii. 90. 

 Vico s theory of cycles, i. 310. 



