INDEX 



Haeckel, Ernst, his scientific 

 faith, 172-175; admitted a 

 psychic principle in the atom, 

 308. 



Hare, least, or coney, or pika, 

 33. 



Hawk, Cooper's, 84. 



Hawk, duck, 84. 



Hawk, hen, 116. 



Hawk, sharp-shinned, 98. 



Hawk, sparrow, young, 101, 

 102. 



Hen-hawk, 116. 



Honey-bee, reproduction, 73, 

 74. 



Horse, evolution, 278-280. 



"How," and "Why," 300, 301. 



Hugo, Victor, quoted, 291. 



Huxley, Thomas Henry, his 

 scientific faith, 166, 167; his 

 conception of electricity, 170; 

 his agnosticism, 171; his 

 literary style, 186, 187; 

 quoted, 186, 187; a fatalist, 

 230; his three realities, 308. 



Indian loaf, 123. 

 Indigo-bird, a family, 6. 

 Insects, breeding-habits, 79, 80. 

 Interpretation, 176, 177. 

 Intuition, transcendental truth 

 comes by, 223. 



James, William, on Bergson's 



book, 201, 205. 

 Jay, blue, and screech owl, 1. 

 Junco, 93; migration, 99. 



Killdeer, 104. 



Kinglet, ruby-crowned, song, 

 113. 



Lankester, Sir Edwin Ray, dis- 

 agrees with Bergson, 201. 

 Law, and chance, 228-233. 

 Lemming, 68. 

 Life, preponderance of the life- 



less over, 125-131; plan of, 

 131; intolligonro inseparable 

 from, 132; reality of, 136- 

 137; had no beginning, 213; 

 play and interplay between 

 spirit and matter, 213-217; 

 matter its seat, not ita 

 source, 217; and chance. 233- 

 201; mechani.stic conception 

 of, 233, 234; hampered and 

 bound by matter, 244; aa a 

 traveler, 263-28S; its begin- 

 nings, 303-306. iS'ee also Evo- 

 lution. 



Light, nature of, 289, 290. 



Lightning, favors certain trees, 

 235. 



Lion, 16, 17. 



Literature, interpretation of 

 life, 176, 177; compared and 

 contrasted with science, 176- 

 181; antipathy between sci- 

 ence and, 183, 184. 194; love 

 and contemplation necessary 

 to, 183, 184; its use of scien- 

 tific matter, 184-189; influ- 

 ence of science on, 193, 194, 

 196. 



Lodge, Sir Oliver, his extra- 

 scientific step. 171, 189, 2.30; 

 in accord with Bergson, 201. 

 203. 



Loeb, Jacques, 171. 



Lookout Mountain, 49. 



Mallard, and hawks, 84. 



Man, littleness of, 129; a part 

 of nature, 132-134; tran- 

 scends his body, 141; extent 

 of variation in. 295; steps in 

 his progress from the animal, 

 295-297; his fall. 297: future 

 development. .307, 308. 



May, a morning of, 112-116. 



May-fly, 79. 



Mendeli.in law. 253. 



Milkweed, conmjon, 87. 



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