430 



EVOLUTION, OLD AND NEW. 



Upright position in man and certain i 

 apes.and children,Lamarckon,312 i 



Upside down, the vertebrata are ; 

 perambulating vegetables plan- 

 ted, 137 



Use and organ, 44, 45, 47, 217, 218, 

 221, 292, 294, 296, 299, 301, 302, ! 

 304, 305, 307-309, 311, 323 



VACUUM, an omniscient and i 

 omnipotent, 28 

 Vague, efforts and desires are vague 



in the outset, 47, 52, 384 

 Variation, C. Darwin declares the 

 fact of variation to be the cause of 

 variation, 8, 9, 347, 369 

 Variations, one factor of modification 

 provides, the other accumu- 

 lates, 227 



Lamarck strove to discover the 



law underlying, 337 

 C. Darwin sees no cause under- 

 lying them, 339, 340 



according to Lamarck, they 



will tend to appear in definite 

 directions in large numbers of 

 individuals, for long periods 

 together ; according to C. 

 Darwin they will not do thus, 

 341 



must appear before they can be 



preserved, 346 



the cause of variations is the 



cause of species (Professor 

 Mivart on this), 370 

 Vary, man cannot vary his practices 

 much more than animals can, 55 

 "Vestiges of Creation," the, 65 



C. Darwin on the, 65 



the author of, on Lamarck, 247 



Darwin's treatment of, 247, 248 



Virtue has ever erred on the side of 



excess than on that of asceticism ,35 



Violin, a man who plays the, with 



his toes, 50 

 Vitally true, 227 

 Volition. (See "Will") 

 Voltaire, Buffon would not play the 

 part of, 81 



WALLACE, A. R., his review of 

 Professor Haeck el's " Evolution 

 of Man," 382-384 



Want and power, interaction of, 44 

 45, 47, 48, 217, 218, 221, 300, 323 



Wasp, cutting a fly in half, Dr. Eras- 

 mus Darwin on, 205 



Watch, Paley's argument from the, 

 13 



Weaker, the strongest eat the, 282 



Wealth, the normal growth of, and 

 evolution, 222 



Web-footed, how birds, became, 48, 

 49, 51 



development of, birds, Lamarck 



on, 305 



Paley on, 305 



Wedge, Buffon let in the thin end of 

 the wedge, by saying that changed 

 habits modify form, 105, 106 



Whisky, God keep you from if he 

 can, 176 



Will, Patrick Matthew on, as 

 influencing organism, 320-322. 

 (See also "Desire," "Design," 

 "Want," "Wish") 



Will-o'-the-wisp, C. Darwin like a, 

 372 



Wish and power, their interaction 

 44, 45, 47, 48, 217, 218, 221, 300, 

 323 



Wit, brevity may be its soul, but the 

 leaders of science, &c., 315 



Worcester, the Marquis of, 54 



Words are apt to turn out compen- 

 dious false analogies, 365 



Worms, reasonable creatures, 255 



Worth, nothing worth looking at or 

 doing, except at a fair price, 35 



Wright, of Derby, his portrait of Mr. 

 Day, 180 



I7EBRA and horse, Buffon on the, 



Ll SO, 155, 164 



" Zoonomia," German translation of 

 the, 71 



Paley's "Natural Theology" 



written at the, 195 



fuller quotations from the, 21 4, 



&c. 



the, and the "Origin of Species," 



the different ideas that an 

 average reader would carry 

 away with him from these 

 two works (" Sense of Need" 

 and "Natural Selection"), 363 



