INDEX 



progress, 3. 286, 307, 316, 4. 

 136; conservatism in India, 39. 



Mala prohibita, 4. 42, I 53. 



Malebranche, Nicolas de, occasional 

 causes, I. 34, 233. 



Mammals, embryology of, 2. 225, 

 231. 



Man, the central figure in the uni- 

 verse, cvii, cxxv 5 genesis of, intel- 

 lectually, Ixxvii, 4. 46-103 ; civ- 

 ilized man, savage and ape, 47, 

 59> 93> 99 "• 5 evolution through 

 change of action in natural selec- 

 tion, 97 ; genesis of, morally, 

 Ixxviii, 4. 104-162; summary of 

 the argument of genesis, 155, 



Manicha?ism, 3. 275, 4. 223 n. 



Mansel, H. L., i. 20, 35, 36 n. ; 

 on progress, 3. 284 ; the Infinite, 

 4. 250. 



Marathon, battle of, 4. 11. 



Marble, Manton, vii, x. 



Mariotte, Edme, pressures and den- 

 sities, 2. 30. 



Marriage in primitive times, 4. 135. 



Mars, origin of, 2. 273 ; physical 

 condition of, 288. 



Marsupials and placental mammals, 

 3- 73, 85. 



Materialism, and psychology, 3. 115; 

 ambiguous sense of the term, 4. 

 263 ; and modern philosophy, 

 267 ; rejected by objective psy- 

 chology, 272 ; by molecular phy- 

 sics, 273. 



Martineau, James, datum objective 

 to God, 4. 223 n., 252. 



Mathematics, in Comte's system, 2. 

 10, 14 J quantitative relations, 44, 

 50. 



Matter, motion, and force, Iv, 2. 

 137-162 ; composition of, I. 3- 

 8 ; primary qualities of, 117; 

 how far known, 22, 2. 141 ; in- 

 destructibility of, I. 94, 2. 1385 

 action of matter on matter, un- 

 thinkable ; I. 6, 233, 2. 126; and 

 spirit, Iviii, xcv, 2. 124, 335, 3. 

 117, 238, 4. 262-290. 



383 



Maudsley, Henry, the mind, 3.197; 



on the will, 258. 

 Mayer, J. R., and conservation of 



energy, 2. 26. 

 McLennan, the clan, 4. 135. 

 Mediaeval philosophy, i. 34. 

 Meldrum, C, 2. 325, 326. 

 Memory, failure of, 3. 217 ; rise of, 



228. 

 Mental plasticity in social evolution, 



Ixxv, 4. 29. 

 Mental phenomena. See Mind. 

 Metamorphosis of energy, 2. 340. 

 Metaphysics, defined and criticised, 



1. 37, 154, 188-192, 261 ; dis- 

 tinction between science and, 185, 



2. 127. 



Meteorologic differentiation of earth's 



surface, 2. 320-323. 

 Meteorology, 2. 51. 

 Michelet, Jules, 2. 153; function 



of pain, 4. 305. 

 Military strength of civilized nations, 



4. 9, 27. 

 Mill, James, i. 42, 173, 3. 119. 

 Mill, J. S., attacks Spencer's test 



of^ truth, I. 79, 88 ; unwittingly 



contravenes experience theory, 99, 



3. 237; on Comte, I. 199,4. 

 354; Hamiltonian philosophy, li, 

 I. 120, 218; causation, 220- 

 226, 2. 148 ; logic, liv, 2. 71, 

 79, 82, 88 ; uniformity of nature's 

 law, 152; nebular hypothesis, 

 260 ; social progress, 3. 354 ; in- 

 dividuality, 4. 20 ; pleasure and 

 pain, 112 ; cause and effect, 195 ; 

 God's goodness, 224 ; religion of 

 humanity, 240. 



Mind, not like a blank sheet, I. 67; 

 the composition of, Ixv, 3. 142- 

 193 ; evolution of, ix, Ixvi, 3. 

 194-240, 4. 212 ; not a product 

 of matter, Iviii, xcv, 2. 124, 335, 

 3. 117, 238, 4. 274-281 ; al- 

 ways associated with matter in our 

 experience, 269. 



Mineralogy, 2. 51. 



Miracles, 4. 184. 



