INDEX. 



ABSOLtTE, the, I. 9, 14 ; ii. 412. 



Absoluta Existence, what is meant \j it, 



i. 87—91. 

 Absolute truth, uo criterion of, i. 11, 70. 

 Abstract and concrete sciences distin- 

 guished by Comte, i. 189, 214. 

 Abstract sciences cannot furnish a pri- 

 mordial principle on which to build a 



philosophy, i. 268. 

 Abstract-concrete sciences, i. 215, 218, 



269. 

 Abstractness not the same as generality, 



i. 214. 

 Actinism as a mode of motion, i. 292. 

 Adam, WilUam, ii. 193, 386. 

 Adaptation, direct, ii. 56. 

 Adjustment, ii. 64. 

 Adoption, legal fiction of, ii. 216. 

 Agassiz, Louis, i. 449 ; ii. 382. 

 Agreement, method of, i. 241. 

 Alcohol retards waste, i. 334. 

 Alexander's campaigns, their civilizing 



influence, ii. 215. 

 Altruism and egoism, ii. 202, 207. 

 Amphioxus and ascidian, i. 450. 

 Analytical truths cannot make up a body 



of philosophy, i. 314. 

 Ancestors, worship of, ii. 349. 

 ft,ncient societies simulating societies of 



modem type, ii. 248. 

 Animals, how classified, i. 448 j dependent 



on solar radiation, i. 410. 

 Anstie on Stimulants and Narcotics, i. 197. 

 Antelopes as illustrating use and disuse, 



ii. 17. 

 Anthropomorphism contrasted with Cos- 



mism, i. 182 ; can never be wholly got 



rid of, i. 183 ; ii. 449. 

 Anticipation of future contingenciea, IL 



92, 247, 303. 



Antipodes, how far inconceiTable by the 



ancients, i. 64. 

 Antiquity of man, immense significance 



of, ii. 320. 

 Apes, brain of, ii. 133. 

 Arabian conquests, their civilizing in- 



fluence, ii. 215. 

 Archseus, theory of, i. 197, 419. 

 Archebiosis, i. 243, 425 ; difficulty of the 



question, i. 427. 

 Archimedes, i. 201, 209, 253. 

 Argyll, Duke of, i. 20 ; ii. 264, 317. 

 Aristseus and his bees, i. 418. 

 Aristotle, i. 126, 224. 

 Arnold, Matthew, ii. 452, 463. 

 Ai-ticulata, origin of the type, i. 345. 

 Aryan languages, i. 443. 

 Aryan race, i. 448. 

 Ascidian and amphioxus, i. 450. 

 Association of ideas, ii. 139, 147. 

 Asteroids, origin of, i. 369 ; their planes 



of revolution not yet accounted for, i. 



372. 

 Astrogeny, i. 220. 

 Astronomy, a deductive science, i. 118 ; 



when constituted as a science, i. 197, 



199, 201 ; scope of, i. 202, 220 ; a con- 



Crete science, i. 214 ; observation in, 



i. 243. 

 Atheism, i. 7 ; ludicrously treated by 



Comte, i. 262. 

 Athens, its importance in history, ii. 202. 

 Atoms, constitution of, i. 4. 

 Attitude of philosophy, i. 259 ; ii. 473. 

 Attraction and repulsion, i. 5, 290. 

 Australians have no words for justice 



etc., ii. 289. 

 Automatic nervous action, ii. 164. 

 Autonomism, ii. 205. 

 Axioms, L 63. 



