INDEX. 



415 



Descent, with modification, spoken 

 of as though synonymous with 

 natural selection, 248, 356 



Design, and organism, shall we or 

 shall we not connect these 

 ideas? 2 



Aristotle denied, Plato up- 

 held, Haeckel on, 4 



Prof. Clifford's denial of, 6, 7 



does certainly involve a de- 

 signer who has an organism, 

 who can think, and make 

 mistakes, 6, 24 



a belief in both design and 



evolution, commonly held to 

 be incompatible, 9 



Sir W. Thomson and Sir J. 



Herschel on, 11 



Paley on, 12, &c. 



light thrown by embryology 



on the method of, 25 



G. H. Lewes opposes, 28 



the three positions in respect 



to, taken by Charles Dar- 

 win, Paley, and the earlier 

 evolutionists, 31 



the first evolutionists did not 



see that their view of evolu- 

 tion involved design, 34 



from within as much design 



as from without, 36 



was equivalent to theological 



design, with the early evolu- 

 tionists, 36 



if each step is taken design- 

 edly, the whole is done de- 

 signedly, 52, 384 



and accident, the line be- 

 tween them hard to draw ; 

 shaking the bag, &c., 53, 384 



instinct originated in, 54 



as much lost sight of with 



old-established forms of the 

 steam-engine as with birds' 

 nests or the wheel, 55 



Dr. E. Darwin's failure to see 



that evolution involves de- 

 sign, 195 



we feel the want of, as much 



as we do of evolution, 407 



evolution not only tolerates, 



but cannot get on without, 

 408 



Designer, "I believe in an organic 

 and tangible designer of 

 every complex structure," 6 



"where is he? show him to 



us,"&c., 29, 30 



the, of any organism, the 



organism itself, 30, 31, 40 



Desire and power, interaction of, 

 44, 45, 47, 127, 217, 221, 

 300, 322 



and power, like wealth, 222 



as a means of modification, 



Dr. Erasmus Darwin on 

 226, 228, 259 



Development, the history of or- 

 ganic, the history of a 

 moral struggle, 45 



always due to making the best 



of the present, 50 



Devils, 20,000, dancing a saraband 

 on the point of a needle, 

 216 



Dew drop, or lens, the, and Lord 

 Rosse's telescope, 44, 47 



Diaphragm, Butfon on the, 129 



Dice, accidental variations thrown 

 for as with, 3 



Difference between animal and 

 ordinary mechanism, 24 



the main, between the manu- 

 facture of tools and that of 

 organs, 39 



Dilemma, C. Darwin's, 346 



Direct action of changed condi- 

 tions, Buffon on the, 105, 145, 

 147, 160 



Discontinuity in continuity, 47 



Disease, accidents followed by, 303 



Disintegration, Protestantism tends 

 towards, 397 



Distribution, geographical, 

 changed, Buffou on, 145, 164 



Disuse, and the winglessness of 

 Madeira beetles, we are al- 

 most surprised to find that 

 they are connected at all, 

 375 



the main agent in reducing 



the wings of Maderia beetles, 

 377 



some examples of the effect 



of, adduced by Lamarck, 

 378 



