460 



EVOLUTION AND DOGMA. 



Sirens, position in life scale of, 247. 



Sizzi, curious theory of planets by. 394. 



Slime, theory of the primordial, 26. 



Smith, George, valuable oriental studies 

 by, 179. 



Soul, as a corollary of monism, 237 ; the- 

 ories on origin of, 345 ; various heretical 

 views on, 346 ; St. Thomas on creation 

 f 356 ; Doctors and Schoolmen on 

 same, 357. See Spirit. 



Space, false philosophical notions of, 

 271. 



Spalding, Bishop J. L , as writer on ag- 

 nosticism, 278. 



Spallanzani, Abbate, researches on the 

 infusoria, 49. 



Specialists, mental short comings of, 309, 

 311. 



Species, ascertained vast numbers of, 51 ; 

 believers in mutability of, 56 ; Buffon 

 teaches mutation of, 60; difficulty of 

 noting, 63 ; views ot Naudin and 

 D'Halloy on, 64 ; Darwin's great work 

 on, 65; believers in continuity of, 71; 

 evolutionary ideas on, 72 , views of 

 great thinkers on, 76, Miltonic hy- 

 pothesis of, 77 ; Linnaeus on, 78 ; Prof. 

 Agassiz on, 75, 101 ; distribution of, 80 ; 

 attempts to give definition of, 94 ; diffi- 

 culties regarding, 97 ; the old doctrin- 

 aires of, 100 ; in the making, 102 ; cases 

 showing mutation of, 103 ; geographical 

 distribution of, 123 ; geological succes- 

 sion of, 125 ; Romanes on distribution, 

 127 ; revelations of the Tertiary on, 129 ; 

 advocates of immutability in, 142 ; evi- 

 dence from antiquity, 143 ; identity with 

 antique forms, 145 ; what Egypt's vegeta- 

 tion tells of, 149; evidence from fossil 

 flora, 152 ; Agassiz' strong argument 

 on, 153 ; evidence from Silurian strata, 

 154; what the trilobite proves on, 155; 

 conditions promoting permanence of, 

 158; elastic types of, 159; fewness of 

 transitional forms, 163 ; an illustration 

 from philology on, 163; cases of crowd- 

 ing out, 164 ; gradation of fossil forms of, 

 167 ; sterility of hybrids in, 182 ; morph- 

 ology as test of, 185 ; trie physiolog- 

 ical test of, 187 ; relation of reproduction 

 to, 190 ; Prof. Owen on integrity of, 191 ; 

 curious experiments in Russia, 192 ; as 

 a hopeless problem, 193 ; heredity and 

 variation in, 197 ; saltatory theory re- 

 garding, 198; Nageli on progress in, 

 199 ; Haeckel's chain of, 246 ; argument 

 from analogy in, 249 ; scholastic doc- 

 trine of, 313 ; three aspects of the term, 

 315; term genus compared with, 317; 

 Milton's doctrine of, 318 ; teleology as 

 manifest in, 373. 



Spectroscope, value of revelations by, 53 



Spencer, Herbert, defines Evolution, 18; 

 not original with him, 23 ; antiquity of 

 his pet idea, 26; as "philosopher" of. 



Evolution, 67 ; Creator left out of crea- 

 tion by, 70; on structural homologies, 

 114 ; his term for natural selection, 195 ; 

 as scientist of the " unknowable," 257 ; 

 led by Anglican churchman, 258 ; on 

 creation, 264 ; dicta on the unknowable, 

 267 ; notions of the Deity, 277 ; defines 

 life, 324 ; confesses weakness of Evolu- 

 tion, 407. 



Spirit, as understood in Haeckelism, 234 ; 

 the unfathomable mystery, 272 ; Plato's 

 ideas on, 323 ; positive claims for, 345. 

 See Soul. 



Sponges, Haeckel on the species of, 99 ; 

 curious investigations in, 232. 



Stalactites, ideas from the growth of, 33. 



Stammbaum, classification on principle 

 of, 88, 109. 



Steinheim, discoveries in lake-bed at, 129. 



Steno, Father Nicholas, true idea of fos- 

 sils, 34. 



Succession of types, Darwin's advocacy 

 of, 126. 



Sumer, sciences anciently studied in, 13. 



Survival of fittest, germ of the theory an- 

 cient, 26 ; anticipated by Buffon, 60. 



Swallow, extension of species in United 

 States, 164. 



Swammerdam, Prof., studies of infusoria 



by. 49- 



Sycamore, specimens as old as Athens, 

 150. 



Taxonomy, regarded as a science, 88. 



Teleology, the old and new sciences of, 

 369 ; late developments of, 371 ; tributes 

 of various scientists to, 373, 374 ; is en- 

 nobled by Evolution, 376 ; as held by 

 Greek sages, 380. 



Temple, Bishop F., on creation and Evo- 

 lution, 436. 



Tertullian, on origin of the soul, 346. 



Thales, teachings on genesis of life, 25. 



Theism, Pohle's views on, 212; as related 

 to Evolution, 220 ; Evolution blended 

 with, 279 ; Prof. Fiske's attempt to class- 

 ify, 301. 



Theology, Haeckel's defects as student of, 

 243; Mivart's relation to, 353; the 

 "Great Architect" theory in, 361 ; how 

 affected by man's derivative creation, 

 364 ; true and false science in relation 

 to, 376 ; Evolution not in conflict with, 

 388. 



Theophrastus, ideas on fossils by, 31. 



Thomas Aquinas, St., a teacher of evolu- 

 tionary ideas, 29; accepts con temporary 

 views on abiogenesis, 44 Kant adopts 

 opinions of, 57 ; as teacher of potential 

 creation, 71 ; evolutionary views of crea- 

 tion, 284 ; on causality in creatures, 297 ; 

 the doctrine of species, 314 ; species as 

 defined by, 315 ; on the creation of 

 Adam, 354. 



Time, philosophic conceptions of, 270. 



