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INDEX 



Primitive language, 48, 57, 61 

 and child language, 61 



Progress social rather than 

 organic, 319 



Race characters, change of, 234 

 Racial poisons, 15 

 Rearing of offspring, 233 

 Reason eminently selfish, 266 

 Recox-ds of language building, 



52 

 Reformation, 143 

 Religion the foundation of 



strong government, 273 

 function of, 278 

 influence of, 157 

 universality of, 271 

 Religious leaders, 157, 163 

 Reproduction, 9 

 Reproductive instincts, 76, 78 

 Responsibility, 324 

 Right and wrong, 87, 94, 97, 



104, 106, 107, 112, 115, 297 

 among savages, 98 

 Roman Church, 86, 174, 181, 



190, 219, 254, 274 

 Romans, 172, 185, 189, 210, 213, 



217, 219, 236 

 "Roots" of language, 52, 54 

 Royalty, rise of, 191, 255 

 Russia, 176 



Sacrifice of present to future, 



262 

 demanded by ethics, 270 

 in reproduction, 76 

 Salmon, 5, 76, 78 

 Sanskrit, 51, 52 

 Savage races, classification of, 



151 

 Scope of social and organic 



heredity, 31 

 Selection, action of to-day, 237- 



240, 243 

 Sentence words, 56, 59 

 Sexual diseases, 14 

 Sexual instincts, 134 

 Short lives as limiting social 



heredity, 33 

 Sitting Bull, 19 

 Slavery, 220 

 Social attributes, transmission 



of, 40 

 evolution, 17, 267 



Social heredity, 24, 25, 26, 37 

 altruistic, 330 



and acquired characters, 27 

 and environment, 27, 301 

 and language, 66, 327 

 and organic, contrasted, 26, 



335 

 in animals, 31 

 in man, 36 

 its certainty, 37 

 laws of, 26 



leads to altruism, 329 

 scope of, 41 

 significance of, 29 



Social instincts, 30, 148 



Social life among animals, 81 



Social man, 17, 21, 23 



Social organism, 126 



Socialism, 192, 200, 260 



Societies, formation of, 145 



Society not founded on in- 

 telligence, 212 

 powers given by, 19 



Starvation, 229, 238 



Struggle for existence in man, 

 225, 309 

 for the life of others, 79 

 for the life of the species, 74, 



79 

 of man with man, 230 

 with inanimaie nature, 227 

 with lower animals, 226 



Sympathy, 101 



Syphilis, 15 



Subordination of self, 180 



Teutons, 213 

 Tools, 3 



Tribes, 84, 149, 151 

 Truce of God, 190 



Uniformity of law, 7 

 United States, 175, 194, 238 



Variation, 9 

 Venereal diseases, 244 



Wallace, 69 



War, 208, 231, 236 



an organizing force, 157 

 Washington, 155, 315 

 Weismann, 10, 29, 251, 306 

 Writing, 22. 53 



