Index. 401 



Religion, its definition, 18; its relation to evolution, 18-22; of primitive man, 

 58; its relation to law, 116; its relation to medical science, 13S-137; to arms 

 and armor, 183-184 ; its relation to the State, 257-258 ; to morality, 259 ; to 

 social reform, 257-274 ; to charity, 271 ; to personal character, 273-274. 



Rensselaer, Stephen van, 357. 



Rent, the justice of, 289-293; its injustice alleged by anarchism, 308-309. 



Representative government, its evolution, 95-101; its defects, 101-103; as 

 related to education, 244. 



Republic, Plato's, 104, 284. 



Ripley, George, his early interest in evolution, 379. 



River-drift men, 51. 



Roberts, George, his early interest in evolution, 380. 



Roman Catholicism, its views of the marriage-relation, 84, 85, 264; its relation 

 to medical science, 136-140; to education, 236, 237, 238, 242; to the public 

 school system, 242; to wealth, 264, 265, 267 ; to the scientific spirit, 265; to 

 interest^ 268 ; to labor, 269 ; to slavery, 270 ; its denunciation of Copernicus, 

 339. 



Romanes, George J., on the mechanic arts, 191 ; on animals as related to 

 mechanisms, 196; on animal intelligence, 196-197; on the advancement of 

 human intelligence, 213. 



Sampson, Z. Sidney, on primitive man, 45-C6; on the age of the human race, 

 107. 



Sanitary science, the growth of, 148-150. 



Sargent, Professor Charles Sprague, on Asa Gray, 344-345, 349, 352. 



Schopenhauer, on the improvement of the race, 87. 



Science, the foe of materialism, 12, 14; on the nature of sense-perception, 13, 

 30,31; on the eternity of matter, 15, 16 note; of society, 22; its wonders, 

 38-40 ; of archaeology, 45, 60 ; its testimony to man's antiquity ; 46 ; of gov- 

 ernment, 103; of medicine, 133-156; of lioplology, 186 ; of poietics, 206 ; of 

 psychology, 239; in education, 244, 247, 252 ; its relation to social reform, 

 321-336. 



Scientific Method, in social reform, 321-336 ; the method defined, 322-325 ; as 

 distinguished from the theological method, 326; from the anarchistic 

 method, 326; from the socialistic method, 327; its practicability, 327-329 ; 

 it favors personal independence, 329-330; practical suggestions relating to, 

 330-336. 



Scientific studies, the value of, 246-247. 



Scoi)e and Principles of the Evolution Philosophy, 3-26. 



Searle, Dr. W. S., his defense of homeopathy, 142'. 



Seely, on inventions, 206 ; 



Sense-perception, the nature of, 13, 29-32. 



Sequoia, 345, 355-356. 



Servetus, Michael, his medical heresies, 144. 



Serviss, Garrett P., on Edward L. Younians, 388. 



Sheldon, Professor Rufus, on the Evolution of Law, 111-130. 



Shell-mounds, 59-60. 



Silsbee, Edward, 377. 



Single-tax, 287, 296. 



Skilton, James A., his metargnosticism, 9; on the evolution of the mechanic 

 arts, 191-214; on Amos Eaton and Asa Gray, 356-360. 



Slavery, of the masses in early times, 97; recognized in the Constitution of 

 the U. S., 100; of debtors, under the Roman law, 128; American, relation 

 of inventions to, 212, 213; its relation to the wages system, 219-220; under 

 the feudal system, 221-223; its relation to poverty, 224-225; a penalty for 

 idleness in the sixteenth century, 229 note; Aristotle on Solon's relation 

 to, 258; the views of Jesus and I'aul concerning, 264; fundamental in the 

 Pagan world, 269 ; American, the relation of Christianity to, 2C9-270 ; its 

 relation to socialism, 283 ; its relation to the anarchistic method, 315. 



Social Reform, Evolution and, 23; the theological method, 267-274; the social- 

 istic method, 277-300; the anarchistic method, 303-318; the scientific 

 method, 321-336. 



Socialism, as related to the evolution of the State, 104, 105; to the wages 

 system, 218, 224, 231,232; an early type of societary development, 258 ; its 

 decay, 258; its modern revival, 258; its Christian phase, 263, 264 ; Gregory 

 the Great its patron saint, 265 ; partial wisdom of its theorv, 274 ; discussed 

 by William Potts, 277-300; as related to anarchism, 304," 317-318 ; to the 

 scientific method, 322, 327 ; present tendencies toward, in America, 333. 



Socialistic Method, 277-300; as opposed to the scientific, 327. 



Social Statics, 377. 



