160 INDEX 



Consciousness, its relations with nature and life, 99 

 Consciousness : what is meant by the term, 103 

 Conventional notions on the facts of ancient history, 76 

 Creation, the triumph of life expressed in, 126 



Darwin's early studies in evolution, 45 



Darwin's Origin of Species, Huxley's championship of, 36 



Democracy the ruling power, 66 



Descartes, Huxley's essay on, 79 



Divine guidance and command claimed among ancient 



peoples, a substitute for reason, 58 

 Divine ideas as the basis of human progress, 56 



Earth, age of the, elucidated from the study of haloes, 153 

 Education: Huxley's work on the London School Board, 21; 



his theory of teaching, 22, et seq; school methods, 23 ; 



his moral standpoint, 25 ; his views on secular education, 



27 



Education, scientific, importance of, 71 

 Environment, Rudimentary beings as well adapted to, as 



man, 120 



Environment, spiritual, 64 

 Evil, power of, stronger than the povrer of good (J. S. Mill's 



view), 70 



Evolution of species, 119 

 Explosive nature of the energy used for directing movement, 



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Foodstuffs storing up energy for movement in conscious 



animals, 115 



French Revolution, faults in its efforts to remould society, 88 

 Future state, natural knowledge brings no proof of a, 34 



Gases, range or distance travelled at ordinary pressure, 130 

 Geiger's proof of the existence of scattering of the haloes by 



solids, 147 

 Good, power of, not so strong as the power of evil (J. S. 



Mill's view), 70 

 Greek susceptibility to ideas, 56, 57 



Halo development, 144 

 Halo, formation of a, 141 

 Haloes, " under-exposed," 143 



