INDEX 



Astronomy, in Comte's system, 2. 

 10, 21, I37n. ; when constituted 

 a science, 22-24, 29 ; advance in, 

 92; astronomic rhythms, 178. 



Atheism, 4. 325 ; and cosmism, I. 

 272. 



Athens, its importance in history, 4. 



13- 



Atoms, constitution of, i. 4-6, 2. 



126. 

 Attraction and repulsion, i. 6, 2. 



154. 

 Automatic nervous action, 3. 229. 

 Autonomism, 3. 301. 

 Axioms, I. 92. 



Bacon, Francis, quoted, I. 11 ; as 

 inaugurator of modern philoso 

 phy, 165, 172} and subjective 

 method, 167 j and Comte, 2. 



Bagehot, Walter, social evolution, 4. 



9, 16, 25, 128. 

 Bain, Alexander, on liberty of choice, 



3. 263, 268. 

 Barbaric languages, absence of general 



terms in, 4. 81. 

 Barratt, A., on final causes, 4, 210 ; 



idea of God, 217. 

 Bastian, H. C, i. 191, 4. 5 ; germ 



theory, 2. 347 j archebiosis, 352- 



360. 

 Bathybius, 2. 354. 

 Batu at Leignitz, 4. 15. 

 Beale, L. S., on cancers, 2. 230. 

 Belief, double sense of the word, I. 



89. 

 Bentham, Jeremy, 2. 87. 

 Berkeley, George, I. 35, 1 01 -1 29, 



172 ; his concept of matter, xlix, 



Ix, I. 108. 

 Berzelius, J, J., Baron, 2. 58. 

 Bessel, F. W. 2. 93. 

 Biology, I. 54, 60, 2. 47; in 



Comte's system, 2. 11, 40; is 



the science of classification, 86 j 



rhythm in, 175. 

 Birds and reptiles, 3. 73. 

 Bkinville, H. M. D. de, 2. 387. 



Borda, J. C. , pendulum experiment, 

 2. 75. 



Boyle, Robert, pressures and densi- 

 ties, 2. 30. 



Bradley, James, aberration of light, 



2. 28. 



Brain, formation of, 3. 195, 2045 

 of savage and civilized man, 4. 



49- 

 Brewster, David, 2. 31. 

 Bridges, J, H., 2. 93, lOI. 

 Broussais, F. J. U., 3. 107. 

 Brown, Thomas, I. 76. 

 Bruno, Giordano, 4. 176. 

 Biichner, F. K. C. L., quoted, 3. 



243 n. ; materialism of, 4. 267. 

 Buckle, H. T., xxxiii ; on volition, 



3. 273 ; on social progress, 335, 

 354. 



Cantor, Moriz, i. 217 n. 



Carbon, 2. 212, 214. 



Carlyle, Thomas, " an absentee 



God," 4. 258. 

 Cartesian test of truth, I. 66, 158 ; 



doctrine of causal resemblance, 4. 



194; 



Causation, li, i. 215-238 ; univer- 

 sality of, 77, 3. 252 ; source of our 

 belief in, i. 216-220 ; Hamilton's 

 theory of, 218; Mill on, 220- 

 226 ; occulta -vis in, 227 ; voli- 

 tional theory of, 232, 4. 200. 



Cause, efficient and phenomenal, I. 

 227. 



Causes and effects, resemblance of, 



4. 194. 

 Cavendish, Henry, 2. 28. 



Cell doctrine repudiated by Comte, 2. 



91,97. 



Century of Science, religious problems 

 in, cxxx. 



Cephalic ganglia, 3. 127. 



Cerebellum, 3. 1275 functions of, 

 201. 



Cerebrum, 3. 127 ; size of, in differ- 

 ent animals, 1 94 ; functions of, 

 202, 4. 93. 



Chalons, battle of, 4. 14. 



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