INDEX 
Gladstone’s controversy with, 208- 
209; formulation of doctrine of 
evolution wholly due to, 222, 273- 
276; Dr. Fiske’s address at farewell 
banquet to, 229-237; similarity of 
early life of, and Tyndall’s, 241. 
Spinoza, Huxley’s fondness for, 207. 
Spontaneous Generation, the Tyndall- 
Bastian controversy on, 244-245. 
Springfield, Mass., founding of, 145. 
Stamford, Conn., settlement of, 151. 
Stamp Act, Grenville’s, 171-174; Town- 
shend’s, 181-184. 
Stevens, Benjamin, 16. 
Stone, Samuel, 125, 139. 
Strachey, Sir Henry, 14. 
Strafford, Earl of, 57. 
Stratford, Mass., settlement of, 151 n. 
Stuarts, expulsion of the, 7; effect on 
America of, 98-103. 
Sumner, Charles, 57. 
Sun, myths which are stories of the, 
299-300, 305-306. 
Sun-catcher myths, 299. 
Susquehannock Indians, the, 92, 94. 
T 
Tacitus, 32. 
“Tall teas,” the Huxleys’, 204-205, 217- 
218, 247. 
Tea party, the Boston, some of the par- 
ticipants in, 193-194. 
Tell, William, story of, exploded, 5. 
Thames River, name changed from 
Pequot to, 152 n. 
Theocritus, 50, 54. 
Thompson, Benjamin (Count Rumford), 
256-257, 275. 
“Through Nature to God,” Dr. Fiske’s, 
quoted, 231 n. 
Thucydides, 7, 18-19, 31, 32. 
Ticonderoga, battle of, 110-111. 
“Titled bride,’’? Huxley’s, 200, 248. 
Tobacco, commercial basis of Old Vir- 
ginia the exportation of, 128. 
Tower of London, as storehouse for 
records, IO-II. 
“‘ Town-meeting principle,” the, 81-82. 
“Town Musicians of Bremen, The,” 
287. 

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Townshend, Charles, character of, 181; 
as George III.’s lieutenant in struggle 
with the Americans, 182-183; death 
of, 184. 
Trilobites, the, 265. 
Troops, numbers of, furnished by colo- 
nies for Louisburg expedition, 104— 
105; colonial, in old French war, 
Trr. 
Tuscarora tribe of Indians, 92, 103. 
Tweed, Boss, analogy between George 
III.’s attitude and that of, 188. 
Tylers, the, letters of, 13. 
Tyndall, John, birth and early life of, 
241; attends German universities, 
242; becomes Fellow of Royal So- 
ciety and Professor of Physics in the 
Royal Institution, 242-243; friend- 
ship of Spencer, Huxley, and, 243; as 
a climber, 243-244; succeeds Faraday 
as Director of the Royal Institution, 
244; controversy on Spontaneous 
Generation, 244-245; work of, on 
radiant heat, and in exposition of 
doctrine of evolution, 245-246; asa 
lecturer in America, 246; in private 
life, 247; marriage, 248. 
U 
Unification of nature, the, 258, 260-264. 
Uniformitarianism, the so-called theory 
of, 266-267. 
Unitarian, Milton as a, 66. 
“Unseen World,” Dr. Fiske’s, 212 n. 
Utrecht, treaty of, 105. 
Vv 
Vane, Sir Henry, 63; Milton’s sonnet 
on, 62. 
Vatican library, 12. 
Vico, G. B., effort of, to make history 
scientific, 32. 
Virgil, 50, 65, 67. 
Virginia, character of, as a colony, 128. 
Voltaire, 32. 
Volunteers, colonial, in expedition 
against Louisburg, 104-105. 
