GENERAL INDEX. 



453 



Catholic Congresses, scientific discussions 

 of, 362. 



Causa Causarum. St. Augustine's state- 

 ment of, 282. 



Cereals, as raised in prehistoric times, 

 151- 



Chaldea, cosmology as a study in, 13 ; 

 species identified by monuments, 148. 



Chambers, Robert, a famous science trea- 

 tise by, 63. 



Champollion, value of researches by, 170. 



Chemistry, its phenomena sustain Evolu- 

 tion, 53 



Church, The, its teachings on creation and 

 Providence, 296 ; Evolution and the 

 doctrines of, 312 ; never inimical to 

 true science, 396. See alto Dogma, 

 Religion, etc 



Cicero, on the transitory value of opinion, 

 xv. 



Civil War, American, the myriad writings 

 on, 20. 



Clarke, Father, S. J., analysis of term 

 agnostic by, 256. 



Classification, various systems of, 84 ; 

 Aristotle's ideas on, 85 ; elements of 

 study in, 89; is it real or a myth, 90 ; 

 ancient and mediaeval views on, 91 ; a 

 leading evidence for Evolution, 105 ; 

 the tree-like system of, 107 ; blunders 

 in, 108. 



Clement of Alexandria, St., cause of error 

 stated by, 204. 



Climate, relations to permanence of 

 species, 158. 



Cockroach, victory of Asiatic species, 164. 



Coleridge, Samuel T , on errors in nomen- 

 clature, 319. 



Compsognathus, an intermediate fossil 

 type, 132. 



Comte, an erroneous prediction by, 53 ; 

 the philosophic creed of, 276. 



Concordistic theory, Cuvier as lather of, 



93- 



Contents, table of, 7. 



Cope, Edward D , as adherent of the 

 Evolution idea, 68 ; researches in fossils 

 by, 174 ; as champion of neo-Lam- 

 arckism. 



Coral, Agassiz on the reefs of, 153. 



Corluy, Rev. J ., on effects of Darwinism, 

 213. 



Corruption, as understood by scholastics, 

 385. 



Cosmology, antiquity of speculations in, 

 13. 



Creation, questions of antiquity concern- 

 ing, 14 ; fanciful views on, 35 ; the Mil- 

 tonic view of, 76 ; Agassiz on the plan 

 of, 101 ; the more noble conception of, 

 122 ; derivative as against special, 135 ; 

 misunderstandings of the term, 215; 

 definition in Catholic theology, 220 ; 

 various meanings of, 221 : relation ot 

 agnosticism to, 255 ; St. Augustine on 



the order of, 281 ; the Genesiac narra- 

 tive of, 290 ; God as the first cause in, 

 297 ; summing up of views. 302 ; science 

 fails to explain, 306 ; various Catholic 

 teachers on, 360. 



Creationism, choice between Evolution 

 and, 75 ; the soul's relation to theory of, 

 348 : its attitude toward Evolution, 398. 



Creatures, as endowed with causality, 

 97- 



Crustacea, curious experiments on species 

 with, 192. 



Cuttle-fish, development of the eye in, 

 120. 



Cuvier, Baron Georges, as founder of pa- 

 leontology, 37 ; effect of his discoveries, 

 38 ; discussion with Saint-Hilaire, 39 ; 

 system of classification by, 85 ; Agassiz' 

 estimate of, 86 ; great scientific work of, 

 87 ; views on species by, 92 ; on evi- 

 dence from Egyptian mummies, 146 ; 

 on animal figures of antiquity, 147. 



Cuvier, Frederick, views on hybrids by, 

 183. 



Darwin, Charles, Evolution not founded 

 by, 23 ; antiquity of pet theory of, 36 : 

 forestalled by Bufibn, 60; publishes 

 " The Origin of Species," 66 ; his chief 

 disciples, 68 ; difficulty of noting species 

 by, 98 ; on rudimentary organs, 1 13 ; on 

 distribution of species, 123 ; on succes- 

 sion of types, 126 ; on predictions in Evo- 

 lution, 137 ; on species of Arctic regions, 

 160 ; on paucity of transitional forms, 

 162, 163 ; on gradation of fossil 

 deposits 165 ; on fossil bird forms, 

 172 ; views on geological research by, 

 181 ; on the problem of hybrids, 190; 

 natural selection defended by, 194 ; ad- 

 mits a weak point, 195 ; the theory and 

 critics of, 207 ; Asa Gray makes defense 

 of, 211 : nature as personified by, 226; 

 out-Heroded by Haeckel, 231 ; estimate 

 of Herbert Spencer by, 357; his con- 

 fused ideas on creation, 306 ; unfitness 

 for abstract studies, 309 ; theory of pri- 

 mordial germ by, 326 ; in conflict with 

 teleology, 369 ; Prof. Gray's tribute to 

 his work, 372. 



Darwin, Erasmus, services to the Evolu- 

 tion idea, 384. 



Darwinism, as distinguished from Evolu- 

 tion, 206 ; various opinions on, 207 ; a 

 great problem evaded by, 343 ; man's 

 origin viewed by, 350 ; not to be held as 

 Evolution, 384. 



Davidson, Prof., as an anti-evolutionist, 

 74 ; researches in British fossils by, 

 156. 



Dawson, Sir J. W., as an anti-evolution- 

 ist, 74 ; pronounces Evolution atheistic, 

 209. 



Deity, Haeckel's concept of, 236 : rela- 

 tions of time and space to, 370 ; as the 



