INDEX 



Chance, plays an important 

 part in life, 228; and law, 

 228-233; and life, 233-261. 



Changes, slow and rapid, 105- 

 111. 



Chemistry, on the road to life, 

 239. 



Chestnut, flowers, 78. 



Chewink, in Georgia, 91, 96, 

 97; scratching, 97. 



Chickadee, 83. 



Chickweed, 88. 



Chipmunk, an outdoor pet, 7- 

 36; food and feeding-habits, 

 7-9, 18-26, 36; well-groomed, 

 10; nervous manner, 10; fear, 

 11-15; ahawk-and-chipmunk 

 incident, 12; den, 20-39; 

 relations of the sexes, 23, 24 ; 

 a hermit, 33. 



Choice, freedom of, 155. 



Claremont, Cal., 119. 



Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 177. 



Coney, or least hare, ot pika, 33. 



Corn, Indian, reproduction, 77, 

 78. 



Counterfeits in nature, 121-124. 



Crow, 16, 86; caution and cun- 

 ning, 99; social instinct, 101. 



Dana, James Dwight, 50. 



Darwin, Charles, 52, 138; his 

 scientific faith, 163-165; his 

 sexual selection, 190; as a 

 creative evolutionist, 217- 

 219; considered natural selec- 

 tion a process, not a cause, 

 267; great importance of his 

 work, 270; his natural selec- 

 tion theory, 271-280, 291- 

 293 ; and the unknown factor 

 in life, 308. 



Dover, England, 51. 



Duck, black, and hawks, 84. 



Earth, the, paradoxes of its 

 sphericity, 148-150, 161. 



Electricity, atomic theory of, 

 170. 



Elliott, H. S. R., 201. 



Emerson, Ralph Waldo, quot- 

 ed, 125, 142, 197, 241, 275; 

 Arnold on, 197; his intuition, 

 223. 



Ether, the, 159; a necessary hy- 

 pothesis, 289-291. 



Everlasting (Antennaria) , 77. 



Evolution, onward impulse in, 

 138, 139; Bergson's view 

 of, 206-227; Darwin's view, 

 217-219; hypothesis of a cre- 

 ative impulse necessary, 262- 

 288; unending, 306-308. See 

 also Life and Natural Selec- 

 tion. 



Experiment, speculation and, 

 293, 294. 



Eye, evolution of, 292, 293. 



Fabre, Jean Henri, 79, 80. 



Faith, scientific, and theologi- 

 cal, 159-162; of Wallace, 

 163; of Agassiz, 163; of Dar- 

 win, 163-165; of Tyndall, 

 165; of Huxley, 166-171; of 

 Lodge, 171; of Loeb, 171; of 

 Haeckel, 172-175; increases 

 as theological faith wanes, 

 175. 



Falkland Islands, 52. 



Fate, and free will, 142-158. 



Firestone, 56. 



Flicker, food, 86. 



Frog, wood, hibernating, 38. 



Georgia, birds seen in, 90-104. 

 Glaciers, slowness and power, 



109. 

 Goethe, 111, 134, 182. 

 Gravity, overcome by gravity, 



147. 

 Grouse, ruffed, or partridge, a 



miscellaneous feeder, 85; a 



covey of young, 116. 



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