INDEX 



Earth, evolution of the, Iviii, 2. 



312-324 J crust of, 317 ; age of, 



3. 69. 

 Eckermann, J. P., 4. 228. 

 Ego-altruistic feelings, 4. 145. 

 Electricity, discovery of, 2. 25, 30. 

 Eliot, C. W., xxix. 

 Embryology, 2. 53 ; and evolution, 



395-403- 

 Emerson, R. W., quoted, 3. 32. 

 Emotion, and sensation, 3. 169; 



rise of, 228. 

 Emotional states, grouping of, 3. 



170. 

 Empiricism, i. 91. 

 Energy, sources of terrestrial, Iviii, 2. 



325-342. 

 Environment, adjustment of life to, 



3. 97-105 ; social, Ixx, 3. 289 5 



heterogeneity of, 104, 313, 4. 



33, 44- 



Equality, perception of, 3. 145-148 ; 

 and likeness, 150. 



Equilibration, internal and external, 

 3. 81, 93, 103. 



Ether, character of, i. 7. 



Ethics, 2. 53 ; evolution of, 4. 105- 

 152; and religion, 153, 292. 



European civilization, 4. 26, 32 ; 

 why progressive, 35. 



Evil, mystery of, xcix, 4. 222, 305. 



Evolution, Fiske's exposition of, Ixi, 

 cv ; opposed by disciples of Comte, 

 2. 92, 97 ; universality of the 

 law, 131, 243, 3. 310, 4. 175; 

 and dissolution, 2. 187-203 ; de- 

 fined, 201, 207 ; the law of, 

 204-248 ; primary and secondary 

 redistributions, 207, 229, 244 ; 

 conditions essential to, 208, 4. 

 43 ; why manifested chiefly in 

 organic bodies, 2. 212; rate of 

 progress, 2. 246, 3. 105, 4. 57 ; 

 of organic from inorganic exist- 

 ences, 2. 354, 365 ; continuity in 

 cosmic, 2. 367, 4. 166; process 

 of, 3- 94, 95, 4- 3275 and so- 

 ciety, 3. 307, 357, 361 ; and 

 religion, cix, 4. 314, 360 ; its 



discovery a vast integration of cor- 

 respondences, 170, 174. 



Excursions of an E'volutionist^ re- 

 ligious problems in, cxx. 



Experience, limits our power of con- 

 ception, I. 82, 141, 3. 237, 4. 

 200 n. 5 how far it can tell us of 

 the future, i. 70, 76, 78 ; what 

 is meant by, 104. 



Experience-philosophy, i. 106, 2. 

 148. 



Experiment in the sciences, 2. 81- 

 86. 



Experimental origin of necessary 

 truths, I. 79. 



Extinct forms intercalary between ex- 

 isting forms, 3. 58. 



Extinction of species, 3. 21, 



Eyes, of vertebrates and moUusks, 3. 

 77, 86 J structure of human, 91. 



Family, as the primordial unit of so- 

 ciety, 4. 58, 127, 134. 



Faraday, Michael, 2. 31. 



Fatalism and free-will, 3. 271, 272. 



Feeling, sensation and emotion, 3. 

 169 ; and consciousness, 4. 284. 



Ferrier, J. F., quoted, I. 109, Il6 ; 

 on evolution of man, 3. 254 n.; 

 on cause and effect, 269 n. 



Fetishism, defined, I. 231, 248, 4. 

 141 ; and mythology, cxli, i. 

 262, 2. 15, 4. 299. 



Fichte,J. G., I. 69, 75, III. 



Final causes, logical aspect of the 

 doctrine, 4. 189 ; argument for, 

 210. 



First cause, nature of, I. 11-13, 19. 



Fiske, John, as an expounder of 

 Spencer, viii, xlii ; as an independ- 

 ent thinker, viii, xiv, xliv, Ixvii, 

 Ixxv, Ixxviii ; his theory of the 

 meaning of infancy, viii, Ixxxi ; 

 polemic against Comte, ix, xxi ; his 

 contribution to religious thought, 

 ix, xiv, Ixxviii, Ixxxvi, cv ; his be- 

 lief that his opinion harmonized 

 with Spencer's, xiii, Ix. cxxxi ; 

 how he might have wished to re- 



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