INDEX 



ABORIGINES of America formerly 



thought to be Mongols or ten 



tribes of Israel, 133. 

 Acacias, Miocene, 22. 

 Adapis, 1 8 ; mistaken by Cuvier for 



an anoplotherium, 18. 

 ./Eons, geological, relative duration 



of, 4, 5, 7 } division of the ages 



into ten, 8 ; actual duration of 



one of the, 8, 10. 

 Afghanistan known as Ariana in 



classical antiquity, 74. 

 Africa, strata of, not yet explored 



geologically, 25. 



Agassiz, Louis, on glacial epoch, 58. 

 Ahriman, and Aryana Vaejo, 68 ; 



and Hapta Hendu, 71. 

 Ahura-Mazda, his creation of the 



sixteen countries, 68 ; worship of, 



70, 73 ; leads his followers to 



Bombay, 70. 

 Akkadian empire, 43. 

 Albania, brigandage in, 208. 

 Albanian language as Hellenic, 85. 

 Albert of Brandenburg, catechism of, 



87. 



Albigensians, their puritanism, 241. 

 Ale probably an Old Aryan word, 



127. 



Alleghanies and denudation, 12. 

 Allen, Grant, on history of nations 



as affected by their geographical 



positions, 1 68, 169 ; and Spen- 



cerian evolutionists, 170. 

 Allen, J. H., Christian History in 



its three Great Periods, 237. 

 Alps, and geological denudation, 14; 



Eocene, 16; Miocene, 21; in 

 gburial epoch, 30. 



341 



Altaic languages, spoken by nomadic 

 tribes of northern Asia, 89; com- 

 prise Finnish, Hungarian, and 

 Turkish, 138. 



American civilization, 291. 



Ancestor-worship, 229. 



Anchitherium, Eocene ancestor of 

 the horse, 18, 22. 



Animals, migration of European, in 

 Pleistocene age, 32 ; domestic, 

 harbingers of civilization, 41 ; first 

 domesticated in Central Asia, 42 ; 

 physical and mental faculties es- 

 tablished before birth in lower, 



283 ; mental flexibility in lower, 



284 ; progression of mental facul- 

 ties in lower, 284. 



Anoplotheria, 18. 



Anramainyus, and Aryana Vaejo, 

 68 5 and Hapta Hendu, 71. 



Antarctic continent, elevation of, 

 62, 63. 



Antelopes, Eocene ancestor of, 18 ; 

 Miocene ancestor of, 22. 



Apennines in Eocene age, 16. 



Apes, 1 8 ; Miocene, 23 ; anthro- 

 poid, 23 ; as ancestors of man, 

 66 ; intelligence of the higher, 

 286. 



Aphelion, earth's, 49, 51. 



Aquinas, Thomas, 260. 



Arabian civilization before and after 

 Mohammed, Outlines of Cosmic 

 Philosophy on, 1 70, 1 7 1 ; Buckle'* 

 theory in regard to, 171. 



Arabic words in Persian, 100. 



Arabs, conquer Iberians, 44 ; com- 



plexion of, 93 ; related to Je 

 and Syrians, 146. 



