INDEX. 



417 



Evolutionists, the early, did not 

 know that they accepted 

 teleology, 34 



the early, saw design, only as 



design by the God of theo- 

 logians, 36 



Experience and instinct, Mr. Pat- 

 rick Matthew on, 322 



Extinct species, Lamarck on, 277 



Button on, 146, 277 



Eye, no creature that had nothing 

 like an eye ever set itself to 

 conceive one and grow one, 

 44, 387 



Paley asks "how will our 

 philosopher get an eye ? " 

 46 



of flat fish, Lamarck on the, 



307 



Lamarck on the, of under- 

 ground and cave-inhabiting 

 animals, 378 



disappear and reappear in the 



scale of organism according 

 to the power of using them, 

 379 



FAITH, forms of, or faiths of 

 form, &c., 339 



Familiarity, with a little, such 

 superficial objections will be for- 

 gotten, 367 



Far ahead, no organism ever saw 

 an improvement a long way olf 

 and made towards it, 43, 44, 48, 

 49, 54, 384 



Father, the man who could be 

 father of such a son and retain 

 his affection, &c., 76 



Factors, there have been two, of 

 modification, one producing and 

 the other accumulating varia- 

 tions, 227 



Fecundity, alternate years of, 

 Buffon on, 125 



Feeding and breeding, 222 



Feel, if plants and animals look as 

 if they feel, let us say they feel, 

 198 



Feeling, there is more feeling than 

 reason in animals, 61 



Feral characteristics, resumption of, 

 Buffon on, 123 

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Final causes, the doctrine of, as 

 commonly held in the time 

 of the early evolutionists, 

 34, 36 



Buffon on, 118, &c. 



Fitness, the cause of, more impor- 

 tant than the fact that fitness is 

 commonly fit, and therefore suc- 

 cessful, 351 



Flat fish, Lamarck on the eyes of, 

 307 



Fluctuation of opinion, C. Darwin 

 on Buffon's, the charge refuted, 

 97, &c., 164, 166 



Fontenelle, on theories, 22 



Foot, and model of foot, differ- 

 ences between, 24 



Forms of faith, or faiths of form, 

 &c., 339 



Four main points which the early 

 evolutionists failed to see in their 

 connection and bearing on each 

 other, 37, 203 



Four main principles, the, which I 

 contended for in " Life and 

 Habit," 37, 203, 380, 381 



Fowls and pigeons, Buffon on, 169 



flARNETT, Mr. R,, and "Bar- 



VJ winising," 21 



Genius, Mr. Allen says I am a, 388 



Gentleman, the Church of Rome 

 means the same by the word as 

 we do, 395 



Geoffrey, Etienne, how small a 

 way he goes, 196 



and Isidore, trimmers, 328 



on Buffon, 328 



on conditions of existence, 



326, 327 



declares against Lamarck's 



hypothesis, 328 



his position, 325-328 



Geoffroy, Isidore, on evolution and 

 final causes, 9 



on Buffon's fluctuation of 



opinion, 98, &c., 164, 166 



points out the difference be- 

 tween the views of Buffon 

 and Lamarck, 105 



statement that Buffon's opin- 

 ions fluctuated again refuted, 

 166 



