INDEX 



Missing links, Ixi, 3. 47-62. 



Missionary enterprises, why so often 

 futile, 3. 356 ; of the Jesuits in 

 Paraguay, 4. 75. 



Mivart, St, George, nature's jumps, 

 3. 47, 4. 324 ; objections to Dar- 

 winian theory, 3. 72-78, 4. 47, 

 370 ; man and apes, 3. 62. 



Modern life, overwork in, 4. 120. 



Molecules, i. 3. 



Moleschott, Jacob, no thought with- 

 out phosphorus, 4. 268. 



Monotheism, i, 249. 



Moon, physical condition of, 2. 283, 

 314 ; type of the final condition 

 of all the planets, 3035 process by 

 which its distance is found, 3. 



143- 

 Moral government of the world, 4. 



Morality, defined, 4. 125 ; inherited, 

 1525 and religion, 153, 178, 

 241, 310. 



Morphology, 2. 53, 403. 



Motion, transmission of, I. 7 ; how 

 far known, 22, 2. 141 ; con- 

 tinuity of, 138 5 modes of, 153 ; 

 direction of, 159-162, 3, 208- 

 213 ; first law of, 2. 159; rhythm 

 of, 163 ; dissipation and absorp- 

 tion, 195, 4. 166; how far to be 

 regarded as eternal, 201. 



Miiller, Max, origin of myths, cxl, 

 cxliv. 



Multiplication of plants and animals, 



3-. '5- 



Musical sounds used in illustration of 

 consciousness, 3. 179. 



Mythology, cxl, 1. 262 ; and meta- 

 physics, 1 54 5 origin of myths, 

 cxli, 4. 141. 



Myths and Mythmakers^ cxl. 



Nationalities, doctrine of, 4. 23 n. 

 Natural law and Divine action, 4. 



Natural selection, Ixi ; and archebio- 

 sis, 2. 355 ; Darwin's discovery 

 of, 3. 4i working of, 17-27; 



and special phenomena, 28 ; and 

 colours of animals, 29-40 ; and 

 hybridism, 63 ; logical character 

 of the theory, 67; not alone the 

 cause of the variety of living be- 

 ings, 78 ; and adaptation, 79, 88, 

 92 } and indirect equilibration, 

 94 J in social evolution, Ixxiii, 

 4. 5 ; point at which its action 

 changes, Ixxvii, 4. 96, 156; ac- 

 tion modified by social conditions, 

 "8, 337. 



Nature-philosophy, i, 112. 



Nature's laws, 4. 304, 



Nebulae, constitution of, 2. 293, 

 297. 



Nebular hypothesis, 2. 249-311. 



Necessary truths, xlvii, i. 34, 68, 

 77787, 147. 



Negative evidence, I. 8 1. 



Neo-Lamarckians, Ixii. 



Neptune, its retrograde rotation, 2. 

 249, 262 ; formation of, 258 j 

 discovery, 3. 154. 



Nervous system, neural undulations, 

 3. 206 ; transit lines, 212 j in- 

 heritance of, 220, 221. 



Newman, F. W., I. 10 



Newman, J. H., 4. 360. 



Newton, Sir Isaac, 2. 204 ; theory 

 of gravitation, I. 16, 162 ; of 

 light, 191 ; of sound, 2. 29 j and 

 Spencer, 205, 242. 



Nitrogen in organic matter, 2. 212, 

 215. 



Noumenon, and phenomenon, i. 

 105-141 ; unknowable, 139. 



Nutritive and relational systems of 

 organs, 3. 126. 



Objective and subjective elements in 

 cognition, how far separable, i. 



Objective and subjective methods 

 compared, i. 142-185. 



Observation, 2. 81. 



Occasional causes, I. 34, 233. 



Occult substrata, i. 108 ; demol- 

 ished by Berkeley and Hume, 1 28. 



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