Index. 185 



European bison, 40 



dogs in India, 30 



wild boar, 36, 37 



Evolution, hypothesis of, stands on a totally different foot from 



Lyell's affirmation of the unity of past and present causes, 



12, et seq.) 24, et seq. 



, its vagueness, 12, 24 



, receives no particular support from the example of 



the domestic pigeon, 67 



, ought to be submitted to he test of direct experi- 

 ment, 92 

 , one of the most plausible guesses we can at present 



make as to the origin of organic types, but nevertheless very 



possibly quite unfounded, 93 



, will explain anything, 94, et seq. 



, its real gist, 101 



, belongs to the domain of mythology rather than 



science, 101 



, akin to the theories of the alchemists, 102 



, why it seems so plausible to many, 118 



, parallel drawn by Germans between, and Newton's 



discovery of gravitation, 119, et scq. 

 , cannot be brought to the test of verification, 119, 



et seq. 



, Lewes on, 103, et seq. 



, Mivart's arguments really tell against, in any form, 148 



, how related to physical geography, 154 



, its various forms, 146, et seq. 



, a mere conjecture incapable of proof or disproof, and 



likely long to remain so, 170, 171 



, has been applied to animals in a state of nature, 74 



Evolutionism, the non-Darwinian forms of, hardly pretend to be 



more than loose conjectures, 24, 146, et sey., 170 

 , non-Darwinian form of argument from general relations of 



species of one genus has no bearing on, 132 



, transcendental, 115 



Evolutionist, who is an evolutionist, 4 



