INDEX 



Atoms, in constant movement, 



10, 11 



have reason, 11, 174 

 what they are, 12 

 Aluminum, an element of earth, 



27 

 Arrhenius quoted, 31 



on life germs, 36 

 Animals and vegetables com- 

 pared, 42, 98, 106 

 Advances, in physical sciences, 



47 

 Anthropoids, and man one in 



structure, 50, 103, 178 

 Australian fauna, 60 



Stationary since Cretaceous 



period, 62 

 Animals, under domestication, 



70 



have only organic tools, 119 

 Archebiosis, 94 

 Anti-intellectualism, 99 

 Abnormal mentality, 109 

 Altruism, how evolved, 115, 273 



and natural selection, 138 

 Anabolism, 158 



Attributes, evidences of reality, 

 296 



Brain, aggregation of atoms, 12 

 cells in, fixed in number, 111, 



113 



have memory, etc., 167 

 effect of removal, 166 

 difference in brains, 130 

 Biology, its importance, 15 



its development, 46 

 Bergson, Henri, 16, 17, 18, 99, 



177, 184, 185, 223 

 Bichat, the great scientist, 46 

 Breeding organisms, 70 

 Bees, how propagated, 72 

 Big-horned sheep, 79 

 Bird's love of the beautiful, 83 

 Burke, J. B., 96 

 Behavior controlled by nervous 

 system, 106, 107, 113 



Binet, Alfred, 129, 130 

 Beagle, the voyage of with Dar- 

 win, 147 

 Baldwin, James Mark, upon an 



objective- thing, 188 

 Beauty, no standard of, 241 

 Beliefs, founded on phenome- 

 nism, 292 



Creative Evolution, 8, 16 

 Changes in the earth constant, 



10 

 Condensation, the principle of 



matter, 22 



Collisions of stellar bodies pro- 

 duce nebulae, 25 

 Chamberlain, T. C., and plane- 



tesimal theory, 27 

 Calcium, an element of the 



earth, 28 



Concordance, of planetary mo- 

 tion, 29 



not perfect, but will be, 30, 31 



Cellulose, binding vegetable 



cells, but not animal, 53 



Cell fertilization and growth, 54 



Classification, of Cuvier and 



Linneus biblical, 40 

 more or less artificial, 41, 43, 



44 



object of, 45 

 significance of, 46 

 Cuvier, opposed evolution, 41 

 undermined, 59 

 created special order for men, 



41 



on the nervous system, 229 

 Chlorophylian power of the 



vegetable, 42, 98, 175 

 Crystal development similar to 



that of cell, 54 

 Croll 's theory of glaciers, 63, 64 

 Consciousness, how produced, 



108, 111, 218, 219 

 what it is, 169, 219, et seq., 



296 

 defined, 240 



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