412 



EVOLUTION, OLD AND NEW. 



Carnivora, Buffon on the, 126 

 Carriage, Dr. Erasmus Darwin's, 181 

 Cat, family, Bnffon on the, 142, &c. 



with a mane and long tail, 143 



Cataclysms, the good cells that get 

 exterminated during the cata- 

 clysms of our own development, 

 75 



Catastrophes, Lamarck on, 277 

 Causes, or "means," of modifica- 

 tion, 301 



C. Darwin says that Button 



has not entered on the, 104, 

 &c. 



C. Darwin gets us into a fog 



about, 345, &c. 



Change, under changed circum- 

 stances, Mr. Patrick Matthew 

 on, 318 



Charity, the greatest of these is, 77 

 Church, a, like a second chamber, 

 400 



the world better with than 



without, 400 



should be like the fly-wheel of 



a steam engine, 104 

 Circonstances(see Conditions of Exis- 

 tence), Lamarck on, 268, 281 

 Circumstance, suiting power, a, 

 Mr. Patrick Matthew on, 318- 

 321 



Classification, rather superficial ap- 

 pearances our best guide to, 

 34, 35, 36, 198, 204 



Buffon on, 108, 109, 141 



Clear, an ineradicable tendency to 



make things, 92 

 Clifford, Professor, on "Design," 



6,7 



Climbing plants, the movements 

 of, Dr. Erasmus Darwin on, 209 

 Coherency, the persistency of ideas 

 th best argument in support of 

 their legitimate connection, 23 

 Coleridge, on " Darwinising," 21 

 Common terms, our, involve the 

 connection between memory 

 and heredity, 201, 205 

 descent, the "hidden bond" 

 of Lamarck, as also of C. 

 Darwin, 271 



Comparative anatomy, Lamarck 

 on, 266, &c. 



Complex structures, the incipiency 

 of, a difficulty in the way of the 

 natural selection view of evolu- 

 tion, 21, 22 



Compromise, Buffon's, 92 



Conditions of existence, the very 

 essence of condition involves 

 that there shall be penalty 

 in case of non-fulfilment, 

 352, 376, 377 



and the winglessness of 



Madeira beetles, 373, &c. 



according to C. Darwin, " in- 

 clude" and yet "are fully 

 embraced by " natural selec- 

 tion, 355 



identical with "natural selec- 

 tion," 351-354 



Etienne Geoffrey, and La- 

 marck on, 326, 327, 328 



Buffon on the, 103 ; differ- 

 ence between Buffon's and 

 Lamarck's view of their 

 action, 105 



direct action of changed, 



Buffon on the, 145, 147, 160 



Lamarck on, 105, 268, 270, 



271, 275, 277, 278, 281, 291, 

 292, 294, 295, 298, 299, 300, 



to. 



Continuity in discontinuity, and 



vice versd, 47 



Contracts of animals, Dr. E. Dar- 

 win on the, 205 

 Contrivance, does organism show 



signs of this ? 2 

 Convenient, not only sometimes, 



but always, more, 'Jti5 

 Corkscrew for corks, and lungs for 

 respiration, Prof. Clifford 

 on, 7. See also p. 58 



we should have grown a, if 



drawing corks had been im- 

 portant to us, 7 

 Creator, a, who is not an organism, 



unintelligible, 6, 11, 24 



Criticising, difficulty of, without 



knowing more than the mere 



factswhich are to be criticised, 172 



Criticism, Miss Seward's, on Dr. 



Darwin's " Elegy," 189 

 Grant Allen on the decay of, 



