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INDEX, 



Bacon, F., Ms services in founding 

 modern philosopliy, i. 112 ; his con- 

 demnation of the subjective method, 

 i. 114 ; his rejection of the Copernicaa 

 astronomy, 1. 2;i2. 



Bagehot, VV , ii. 259, 267, 280, 310. 



Bain, A., on liberty of choice, ii. 179. 



Barbaric languages, absence of general 

 terms in, ii. 308. 



Barratt, A., on final causes, ii. 397, 402. 



Bastian, H. C, i. 129, 425. 



Bathybius, i. 426. 



Beale on Cancers, i. 343. 



Belief, double sense of the word, i 61. 



Berkeley, i. 74, 117. 



Bernard, Claude, i. 244. 



Berzelius, overthrow of his dualistio 

 theory, i. 225. 



Besscl measures parallax of 61 Cygni, L 

 249. 



Bichat, i. 199. 



Biogeny, i. 221. 



Biology, i. 37, 41, 113 ; when constituted 

 as a science, i. 199 ; a concrete science, 

 i. 213 ; scope of, i. 221 ; difficulty of 

 experimentation in, i. 243 ; pre-emi- 

 nently the science of classification, L 

 244. 



Birds, carinate and struthious, ii. 51. 



BlainviUe's attempts at linear classifica- 

 tion, i. 449. 



"BUnd force" and "intelligent per- 

 sonality," ii. 429. 



Borda's pendulum experiment, i, 237. 



Botany as related to biology, i. 212. 



Boyle and Mariotte, their law of pres- 

 sures and densities, i. 206. 



Bradley's discovery of abeiration, i. 204. 



Brain increases in heterogeneity with 

 mental labour, ii. 140. 



Brain-action, new theory of, ii. 141. 



Brewster's optical discoveries, i. 206. 



Bridges, J. H., i. 252, 259 ; ii. 243, 



Broussais, ii. 74. 



Brown, Thomas, i. 53. 



Bruno, Giordano, ii. 375. 



Buckle, H. T., his lack of the historic 

 sense, i. 165 ; on Mohammedan civiliza- 

 tion, ii. 200 ; his philosophy of history, 

 ii. 229. 



Buchner, L., i. 123 ; ii. 435. 



Buttertiies and theii' colours, ii. 25 ; ta 

 Celebes and Java, iL 56. 



Cancers, i. 198, 343. 



Carbon, its function as a constituent o/ 



organic matter, i. 311. 

 Carioate birds, ii. 51. 



Cartesian test of truth, i. 99, 108; dco« 

 trine of causal resemblance, ii. 386 



Celts and humble-bees, i. 303. 



Cats' whiskers, ii. 90. 



Oausation, universality of. i. 53; sour«5«» 

 of our belief in, i. 146 ; Hamilton'i 

 theory of, i. 148 ; Hume's theory of, i, 

 127, 155 ; hypothesis of occulta vis, i. 

 154 ; does not imply constraint, i, 183 ; 

 volitional theory of, i. 158 ; ii. 39i) ; 

 Ferrier's view of, ii. 183. 



Cause, efficient and phenomenal, i. 154. 



Causes and efiects, resemblance of, ii. 386 



Cavendish's torsion-balance experiment, 

 i. 205. 



Celibacy of clergy, ii. 222. 



Cell-doctrine repudiated by Comto, L 

 247, 251. 



Cephahc ganglia, their increasing im- 

 portance, ii. 87. 



Cerebral differences between civilized 

 man and savage, ii. 316. 



Cei-ebrum and cerebellum, size of in dif- 

 ferent animals, ii. 133 ; functions of, 

 ii. 137. 



Chalons, battle of, ii. 262. 



Chambers, G., his obituary notice of the 

 nebular hypothesis, i. 386. 



Chance and law, ii. 171. 



Chemical heterogeneity of the earth's 

 surface, how brought about, i. 431. 



Chemism, cohesion, and gravity, i. 291. 



Chemistry, i. 34 ; its relations to mine 

 ralogy, i. 189, 212; wherein diflerent 

 from physics, i. 192, 203 ; when consti- 

 tuted as ascience, i. 199 ; revolutionized 

 by Dumas, Laurent, etc., i. 225. 



Chinese, their small foresight, ii. 305 ; 

 primitive structure of their society, 

 ii. 248. 



Christianity, genesis of, ii. 169, 206, 218 ; 

 its political effects, ii. 278. 



Christians foiTnerly called atheists, ii. 

 469. 



Cicada and rattlesnake, ii. 29. 



Circulatory system, stages of its evolu- 

 tion, ii. 145. 



Citizenship in Greece and Rome, ii. 221» 



Civic communities, ii. 117. 



Civilization a process of adaptation, ii, 

 202, 212. 



Clan-societies, their characteristics, ti 

 204. 



Classification as dependent on heveditiirj 

 kinship, i. 448. 



Classifying and reasoning, ii. 106. 



Climates, interdependence of, i. 404. 



Clover and humble-bees, i 308. 



Codhsh, theii' rate of increase, ii. IL 



