428 



EVOLUTION, OLD AND NEW. 



Sometimes, "equally convenient" 

 ("the survival of the fittest" with 

 natural selection), 9, 354, 365 

 Son, the people who can get good 

 sons and retain their affection are 

 the only ones worth studying from , 

 76 



Sor bonne, the, and Buffon, 82, 84 

 Sorbonnes, never do like people who 



write in this way, 143 

 Specialists, embryos are, 28 

 Species, Buffon on the causes or 

 means of transformation, 

 159, &c. 



Lamarck on, 267, &c. 



clusters of, Lamarck on, 288 



C. Darwin on, 289 



Specific characteristics vary more 

 than generic, Lamarck on, 

 287, 288 



C. Darwin on, 288 



Speech, Lamarck on, 313, 314 

 Spencer, Herbert, on Lamarck's hy- 

 pothesis, 330, 331 

 a follower of Buffon, Dr. Eras- 

 mus Darwin and Lamarck, 332 

 Spent, or extinct purpose, and rudi- 

 mentary organs, 383 

 Spontaneous : C. Darwin uses this 

 word in connection with 

 variability, 358 



variability (oruuknown causes), 



C. Darwin, on what it will 

 account for, or make known, 

 358 



Steam engine, latest development 

 of, not foreseen, though each 

 immediate step in advance 

 was so, 54, 384 



design lost sight of in the most 



common patterns, as with a 

 bird's-nest, or the wheel, 55 

 Step, if each step is purposive, the 

 whole road has been travell- 

 ed purposively, 52, 384 



only the few nearest are taken 



definitely, 44, 384 

 Sterility of hybrids, Lamarck on, 272 



C. Darwin on, 273 



Stock, Buffon on the, and the dia- 

 phragm, 130 



Stronger, the, succeed, and the 

 weaker fail, 320, 321 



Strongest, the, eat the weaker, 282 



Struggle for existence Buffon on the, 

 123 



and hence modification, accord- 

 ing to Dr. Erasmus Darwin, 

 mainly conversant about 

 three wants, 226-229, 232 



comparison between Erasmus 



Darwin and Lamarck's views 

 on the foregoing, 257 



Lamarck on the foregoing, 279 



and survival of the fittest, La- 

 marck on the, 281, 282 



Patrick Matthew on, 321 



Style, Buffon on, 76, 77 



Sudden, the question what is too, 

 to be settled by higgling 

 and haggling, 50 



modifications, missionaries 



should avoid trying to effect, 

 183 



Superficial, philosophy of the, 34, 

 35, 36, 198, 204 



Supply and demand, and desire and 

 power, 223, 300 



Survival of the fittest, a synonym 

 for natural selection, 9 



Dr. Erasmus Darwin on the, 22 7 



in the struggle for existence, 



Lamarck on the, 281, 282 



understood and admitted by 



Buffon, Erasmus Darwin, 

 and Lamarck, 301 



subsequent to modification, 



and therefore not the cause 

 of it, 302, 346 



Patrick Matthew on, 321 



this is not a theory, but a fact, 

 356, 357 



Swimming, no shore bird ever set 

 itself to learn, of malice prepense, 

 48,51 



r FAIL, the beaver's, has become an 



J- incarnate trowel, 8 



Teething, the pain an infant feels is 

 the death-cry of many a good cell, 

 75 



Teleological, failure of the early evo- 

 lutionists to see their position as, 

 34 



Teleology, statement of the question, 



