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E VOL UTION AND DOGMA. 



primary cause, 297 ; attributes of, 304 ; 

 errors of scientists on, 308 ; science pro- 

 motes just views of, 401 ; a necessary 

 postulate of Evolution, 432. 



De Lapparent, Prof. A , attitude on crea- 

 tionism, 363. 



Deluge, Noah's, supposed relation to fos- 

 sils, 35 ; controversy on duration and 

 extent of, 420. 



Denudation, fossil deposits affected by, 

 170. 



Descartes, Ren, tendencies toward Evo- 

 lution, 56 ; on relations of science to 

 God, 410. 



Deslonchamps, dictum on species by, 98. 



Diercks, S. J., Father, discussion of crea- 

 tionism, 362. 



Diogenes of Appolonia, theory of animal 

 life by, 26. 



Discussions, counsel of Leo XIII. regard- 

 ing, xxii ; by the ancients on creation, 

 15 ; those of antiquity still fresh, 16 ; 

 between Cuvier and Saint-Hilaire, 39. 



Divine Administration, meaning of the 

 term, 295. 



Doctors, Evolution and teachings of the, 

 312- 



Dog, long identity of the species, 147 ; the 

 numerous varieties of, 186. 



Degma, science can never contradict, xv ; 

 how affected by Evolution, 206 ; not an- 

 tagonized by this science, 300 ; abiogen- 

 esis not opposed to, 331 ; standing as to 

 the missing link, 344 ; zeal of certain 

 scientists against, 370 ; not contradicted 

 by Evolution, 388, 426. 



Dragons, a myth of ancient science, 

 400. 



Dredging, contributions to science from, 



52- 

 Dryopithecus, as the supposed missing 



link, 351. 

 Dualism, contrast of materialism with, 



215. 

 Dufrnoy, Pierre A., on the mating of 



species, 182. 



Earth's age, review of controversy on, 

 420. 



Egypt, testimony from monuments of, 144 ; 

 the ancient vegetation of, 149. 



Egyptology, paleontology sustained by, 

 179. 



Elements, Simple, argument from rela- 

 tionship of, 53 ; scholastic and scientific 

 views on, 286. 



Emanation, an unsound theory, 76. 



Emanationism, outgrowth of science spec- 

 ulations, 15. 



Embryology, facts of noted by antiquity, 

 28 ; Evolution theory sustained by, 54 ; a 

 leading evidence for Evolution, 105 ; its 

 argument set forth, 115 ; status in Evo- 

 lution, 250. 



Empedocles, as father of Evolution, 26 ; 



a guess at Evolution by, 28 ; as precur- 

 sor of Darwin, 380. 



Environment, Buffon a teacher of, 60 ; 

 noted adherents of theory, 72 ; perma- 

 nence of species affected by, 158 ; as a 

 factor of Evolution, 193 ; curious changes 

 from, 195. 



Epicurus, on the generation of life, 321. 



Epigenesis, as foreshadowed by Aristotle, 

 27. 



Evolution, can Christians accept theory, 

 xiv ; the odium cast upon, xviii ; its dis- 

 cussion opportune, xxv; a resource of 

 baffled science, 16 ; wide-spread use of 

 term, 17 ; Spencer's definition of, 18 ; 

 discussion and vast literature of, 20; 

 bitterness aroused by, 21 ; used by foes 

 of religion, 22 ; not begun by Darwin, 

 23 ; discerned among the Greeks, 25 ; 

 Aristotle's conception of, 27 ; among 

 mediaeval schoolmen, 29; Saint-Hilaire's 

 championship of, 40 : relation of abio- 

 genesis to, 41 ; sustained by advancing 

 science, 51 ; astronomy and chemistry 

 sustain, 53 ; biology a supreme aid. 54 ; 

 its later champions, 55 ; Goethe as a 

 herald of, 61 ; Robert Chambers' argu- 

 ment for, 63 ; Darwin's first book on, 

 65 ; the high-water mark of, 67 ; two 

 ways of regarding, 69 ; the pervading 

 idea of, 72 ; its noted antagonists, 73 ; 

 no middle course in, 75 ; Darwin's 

 changes on, 82 ; atheistic disciples of, 

 83 ; bearings of classification on, 91 ; 

 solves the mystery of species, 102 ; 

 leading evidences for, 105 ; the whale 

 in support of, in ; explains rudimen- 

 tary organs, 114; solves embryological 

 problems, 122 ; the demonstrative evi- 

 dence of, 127 ; proof from gradation of 

 fossils, 133 ; summing up of proofs, 134 ; 

 special creation and, 135 ; prediction of 

 discoveries in, 136 ; objections made 

 against, 140; challenge from opponents 

 of, 141 ; what history offers against, 140; 

 nature of misapprehended, 157 ; La- 

 marck to objectors against, 158 ; sterility 

 of hybrids against, 182 ; standing of 

 species in, 191 ; the array of factors in, 

 193 ; some difficult theories of, 196; 

 role of extraordinary births in, 197 ; 

 friends of saltatory theory. 198; as a 

 fact beyond dispute, 203 : distinction of 

 Darwinism from, 206 ; adverse criti- 

 cisms of, 208 ; atheism gives welcome 

 to, 210 ; sundry judgments on, 213 ; 

 ignorance of terms in, 214 ; relation of 

 agnosticism to, 254 ; the agnostic form 

 unsound, 278 ; analogy of tree growth 

 to, 283 ; as revealed in creation, 293; 

 the Catholic idea of, 300 ; occasional- 

 ism excluded from, 301; anthropomorph- 

 ism dispelled by, 302 ; no Divine inter- 

 ference in, 304 ; Dogma in relation to, 

 312 ; unaffected by notions on species. 



