Edward Livingston Youmans. 



Rest, importance of, 476. 

 Ripley, George, 153, 207. 



Science, meaning of, 486, 492 ; in- 

 centives it gives, 445 ; its bracing 

 quality, 447 ; religious work of, 

 491-494. 



Science primers, 332. 



Science studies, 423 ; order of, 424 ; 

 as information, 425 ; of human na- 

 ture, 451. 



Scientific lecturing, 72. 



Sister reads for him, 42, 50, 54 ; joins 

 him in N. Y., 56 ; chemical stud- 

 ies, 61. 



Social Statics, republication of, 114, 

 141, 176. 



Sociology, study of, 295. 



Specimen of handwriting, 92. 



Spencer, Herbert, visit to America, 

 376; and the doctrine of evolution, 

 502, 511; works of, 504; health, 

 527 ; rights as a thinker, 538 ; re- 

 ligious teachings, 554, 557 ; appli- 

 cation to government, 551 ; con- 

 troversy with Harrison, 562. 



Staten Island, life at, 45. 



Suppressed book, concerning, 562. 



Synthetic philosophy, 233, 290, 291. 



Taine, 503, 505. 



Teachers' office, 483. 



Tenney, E. P., Appletons' reader, 

 judges of manuscript of Class- 

 Book, 66. 



Theology the adversary of science, 

 494, 500. 



Tyndall, Prof., visit to this country, 

 317 ; letters of, 317, 319, 320, 

 366. 



Unconscious mental action, 460. 



Vestiges of Creation, 42, 57. 

 Vicarious discipline, 417. 

 Voluntary activity, limits of, 488. 



War times, 116, 135, 141-145, 178, 



185. 



Wheeler, J. M., letter, 35-40. 

 Wheelers, the, 14-17. 

 Whitman, Walt, 46. 



Youmans, Catherine Scofield, 4-6. 



Youmans, Earle, 61, 323. 



Youmans, E. L., popular sympathies 

 of, 4 ; birth, 4-6 ; childhood, 9-13 ; 

 religious experience, 9, 29-33 ; 

 freethinkers, 18 ; leaves Greenfield, 

 19 ; generosity, 26 ; circulating li- 

 brary, 27 ; inflammation of the 

 eyes, 28 ; powers of persuasion, 

 33 ; handiness, 34 ; goes to Gal- 

 way Academy, 35-40 ; treatment 

 by Ballston oculist, 40 ; blindness, 

 40 ; reading, 41, 42, 50; relapses, 



42, 45, 59 J g es to N - Y - E y e In ~ 

 firmary, 42 ; treated by Dr. Elli- 

 ott, 44 ; life at Mrs. Cook's, 44- 

 45 ; removes to Mrs. Chipman's, 

 46 ; Mr. Flanders, 46, 47 ; expo- 

 sures, 48 ; the Ketchams, 49 ; self- 

 supporting, 50 ; handwriting, 50 ; 

 literary work, 51 ; conversation, 

 52 ; power of exposition, 52 ; 

 studies mnemonics, 53 ; sister joins 

 him in N. Y., 56 ; attends Agas- 

 siz's lectures, 57 ; historical work 

 undertaken, 58 ; call at Apple- 

 tons', 59 ; history forestalled, 59 ; 

 deep discouragement, 60 ; Chemi- 

 cal Chart, 62 ; text-book of arith- 

 metic, 63 ; Class-Book of Chem- 

 istry, 63-70 ; forestalled, 64 ; be- 

 gins lecturing, 72 ; as a lecturer, 



