INDEX 



Democracy, theory of, 260. 

 DEMOCRITUS, 43, 44. 

 DESCARTES, 123 et seq., 128, 144, 



145, 205. 



Descent of man, 224. 

 Devil, the, 141, 143, 202. 

 Discourse of the Winds, 137. 

 Discovery, voyages of, 103, 104, 



136, 192, 194. 

 DISRAELI, B., see Beaconsfield, 



Lord. 



Divine Comedy, 90, 98. 

 Dogma, 17, 19, 35, 220. 

 Dominants, 246. 

 Dominicans, So, 91. 

 DUNS SCOTUS, 80, 95, 145. 



Edinburgh Review, 213. 



Edinburgh, Royal Society of, 160. 



Egypt, 25, 27, 28. 



EINSTEIN, 243. 



EL BATANI, 77. 



Electric discharge through gases, 



235; 



Electricity, 120, 168, 181, 185. 

 Electro-magnetic waves, 183, 236. 

 Electro-magnetism, 183, 236. 

 Electro-plating, 182. 

 Electrons, 235. 

 Elements, 42, 170, 172. 

 ELGIN, EARL OF, 223. 

 ELLICOTT, BISHOP, 231. 

 Embryology, 47, 135, 189, 205. 

 EMPEDOCLES, 42, 204. 

 Encyclopaedists, the, 145, 147, 163, 



218. 



Energy, 42, 176. 

 Environment, modification through, 



207, 250. 

 Enzymes, 198. 

 Equality of man, 149. 

 Equilibrium, theory of, 180. 

 ERASMUS, 19. 



ERIGENA, SCOTUS, 19, 20, 83. 

 Essay on Population, 208, 210, 



212. 



Essays, Montaigne's, 122. 

 Ethnology, II, 216, 222. 

 EUCLID, 51. 

 EULER, 145. 



Euphrates, valley of, 22, 25. 

 Europe, races of, see under Races. 

 Europe, reconstruction of nations, 



7L 



Evolution, 2Q^etseq., 212,216, 249. 

 Evolution Crtatrice, 277. 

 Exercitatio Anatomica, etc., 135. 

 Exorcism, 24, 52. 

 Experimental method, 109, 120, 



221. 



Exploration, scientific, 136, 192, 



194. 

 Eye colour, 248. 



Faith and reason, 80, 87, 145. 



Faith healing, 144. 



Falling bodies, 46, no, 117. 



FARADAY, MICHAEL, 158, 182. 



Fathers of the Church, 60. 



Fermentation, 197. 



Feudal system, 151. 



FISCHER, 195. 



Fittest, survival of the, 210, 221. 



FITZGERALD, G. J. , 242, 244. 



Fleas, 200. 



Fluid theory of electricity, 168. 



Fluid theory of heat, 167. 



Fluids, imponderable, 167. 



Fluxions, method of, 130. 



" Force hyperme'canique," 195. 



Fossils, in, 201, 202. 



FOUCAULT, LEON, 175. 



FRANCIS I., 106. 



FRANCIS, ST, 16, 98, 226. 



FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN, 168. 



FRAUNHOFER, JOSEPH, 174, 175. 



FRAZER, J. G., 228. 



FRESNEL, 173, 241. 



Friars, coming of the, 85. 



GALKN, 55, 70, 132. 



GALILEO, 46, no, 116, 126, 161. 



GALLE, 162. 



GALTON, SIR FRANCIS, 228. 



GALTON, S. J., 160. 



GALVANI, 181. 



Galvanism, 181. 



Galvanometers, 183. 



Gardens, botanical, 137. 



Gardens, zoological, 139. 



Gases, properties of, 170. 



Gases, electric discharge through, 



235. 

 r-Li 



GAY-LUSSAC, 170. 

 Geocentric theory, 39, 47, 114. 

 Geographical conditions, 10. 

 Geographical discovery, 40, 56, 103, 

 137, 192. 



