INDEX 



Numerals, in Old Aryan, 114; in 

 the language of Tahiti, 156. 



Oaks, in Cretaceous epoch, 6 ; in 

 Miocene, 22 ; in Pliocene, 26. 



Ocean-currents, as affecting glaciation 

 of northern hemisphere, 5356, 

 64 ; as produced by southern trade- 

 winds, 54, 64 ; as produced by 

 northern trade-winds, 55. 



Oceans, their position practically the 

 same throughout the ages, 13 ; 

 changes in contour of, 14. 



Old Aryan, the language of Aryana 

 Vaejo, 8 1 ; reconstruction of, 

 108-113, 137 ; a vocabulary of, 

 1 1 a, 113 ; names of relatives 

 in, 114; numerals in, 114. See 

 Aryan, Aryans and Indo-Euro- 

 pean. 



Old British as a division of Keltic, 

 85. 



Old Norse as primitive form of Dan- 

 ish, Swedish, and Norwegian, 82. 



Old Prussian, as a branch of Lettic 

 language, 87 j extinct save in the 

 Catechism of Albert of Branden- 

 burg, 87. 



Ontology, Spencer and, 258 ; inter- 

 est in, will increase, 260. 



Opinions, relative truth of, 192 ; 

 improvement in character of mod- 

 ern, 193 ; on religious matters, 

 225 ; diversity of, a guarantee of 

 healthy intellectual activity, 225. 



Opossum, Miocene, 22. 



Orang-outangs as the forefathers of 

 man, 287. 



Oriel window, 118. 



Origin of Species, the process of its 

 conception traced, 315328 ; re- 

 garded by Darwin as a preliminary 

 outline of his theory, 329 ; the 

 times ripe for its acceptance, 330. 



Origins, present age wrapped in the 

 study of, 259. 



Origins of Protestantism, the, 221. 



Ormuzd, his creation of the sixteen 

 countries, 68. 



Orthodoxies, decomposition of, 245 j 

 and individual responsibility, 263. 



Oscan, a division of the Italic lan- 

 guage, 85. 



Ossetian of Caucasus, a division of 

 Aryan speech, 83. 



Our Aryan Forefathers, 6896. 



Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy, on 

 Conditions of Progress, 1 70 ; and 

 sociology of Spencer, 170, 172 ; 

 on Buckle's theory that changes 

 in Arabian civilization before and 

 after Mohammed were due to 

 geographical environment, 171 ; 

 on meaning of infancy, 279 ; on 

 consciousness and molecular mo- 

 tion in the brain, 303 ; on matter 

 and spirit, 307. 



Owen, Sir Richard, assisted in pub- 

 lication of results of voyage of 

 Beagle, 313. 



Ox, Pliocene, 27 ; harbinger of 

 civilization, 41. 



Oxus, the, 70. 



Pacific islanders, complexion of, 93. 

 Palaeolithic age, the stage of culture 



known as the, 34. 

 Palfrey, origin of the word, 123. 

 Pali, as a division of Aryan speech, 



83. 



Palmettos, Miocene, 22. 

 Palms, in Jurassic period, 6 j in 



Pliocene age, 27. 

 Panther, Pliocene ancestor of, 27. 

 Parental feeling, its origin in the 



prolongation of infancy, 289. 

 Paris, a political and intellectual 



centre, 142. 

 Parker, Theodore, on the justice of 



God, 206 ; and free-thinking, 



246. 



Paroquets, Miocene, 22. 

 Parrot, 286. 



Parsi, sacred books of, 68 ; of Bom- 

 bay, as a division of the Aryan 



language, 83. 

 Parsis or Persians in Bombay and it 



neighbourhood, 70. 



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