INDEX. 



A. 



Abstract ideas, peculiar to man, 212 ; 

 the Basis of the Moral Sense, 213 ; 

 consciousness of, 213 ; Locke on, 

 220. 



Acquired characters, heredity of, 

 proved, 195 ff. 



Adaptations, in fungi, 46 ; in plants, 

 55 ft"., i6g; contrasted with Crys- 

 tals, 63 ; Weismann on, 124 ; to 

 environment, 124 ; experiments 

 on, 170 ; and Natural Selection 

 contrasted, 177 ; substituted for 

 Natural Selection by German bot- 

 anists, 181 ; illustrations of, 196 

 ff. ; in aquatic animals, 203 ; in 

 Reason, 237. 



^thalium, composition of, 40. 



Affinity, Haeckel's theory of, 20 ff. 



Agape, or enthusiasm, true meaning 

 of, 302 ff. 



Allen, Grant, on God, 357. 



Altruism, wanting in animals, 292. 



Analogy, argument of, 58. 



Ancestral origin of gods, 216 ff. 



Animals, generalised types of, 210. 



Anticipatory functions and struc- 

 tures, 118 ff. 



A priori assumptions, 239. 



Aquatic animals. Adaptations of, 203. 



Aquatic plants, 197 ff. 



Architect or Creator, 138. 



Argument Cumulative, Paley's, 96. 



Aristotle on inadequacy of moral 

 teaching, 13. 



Artificial, organic products, 64, 65 ; 

 selection, 164-166; and natural, 

 166. 



Atoms, sensation and will of, 20. 



Attention and Will, 274. 



Author's experiences of Automatism, 



287, 2S8. 

 Autogony, 44. 

 Automatism and Volition, 135 ; of 



musicians, 141 ; powers of, 141 ; 



contrasted with Volition, 214 ff. ; 



and Reason, 248; and Free Will, 



273 ff. ; illustrations of, 273 ff. ; 



Huxley on, 278 ; of a prisoner. 



278 ; and Prof. A. Sedgwick, 281 ; 



and Hypnotism, 285 ; author's 



experiences of, 287, 288 ; Dr. W. 



B. Carpenter's illustrations of, 



288 ; religious, acquired, 323 ; in 



handwriting, 365, ff. 



B. 



Babylonian account of the deluge, 

 216. 



Bacteria, 44, 45. 



Bateson and Scott on Individual 

 Variations, 165. 



Bees' cells, 88. 



Belief, in Deity, universal, 252 ff. ; 

 and Faith defined, 266-268. 



Biblical origins of man, 208 ff. 



Birds' nests, formed by hereditary 

 habit (instinct), 244. 



Body, annihilation of, Rix's view 

 of, 263. 



Brain, development of, 359. 



Biichner on Darwinism, 25. 



Buckman, experiments of cabbage, 

 carrot and parsnip, 165 ; belief in 

 the heredity of acquired charac- 

 ters, 1S6. 



Busseil, on Socrates, 15, 16 ; on the 

 Chinese, 214. 



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