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INDEX. 



Bacon', F., his services in founding 

 modem philosophy, i. 112 ; his con- 

 demuation of the subjective method, 

 i. 114 ; his rejection of the C'opernican 

 astronomy, i. 232. 



Bagehot, W , ii. 259, 267, 280, 340. 



Bain, A., on liberty of choice, ii. 179. 



Barbaric languap,es, absence of general 

 terms in, ii. 303. 



Barratt, A., on final causes, ii. 397, 402. 



Bastian, H. C.,i.l29, 425. 



Bathybius, i. 426. 



Beale on Cancers, i. 343. 



Belief, double sense of the word, i. 61. 



Berkeley, i. 74, 117. 



Bernard, Claude, i. 244. 



Berzelius, overthrow of his dnalistic 

 theory, i. 225. 



Bessel measures parallax of 61 Cygni, L 

 249. 



Bichat, i. 199. 



Biogenj', i. 221. 



Biology, i. 37, 41, 113 ; when constituted 

 as a science, i. 199 ; a concrete science, 

 i. 213 ; scope of, i. 221 ; difficulty of 

 experimentation in, i. 243 ; pre-emi- 

 nently the science of classification, i. 

 244. 



Birds, carinate and struthious, ii. 51. 



Blainville's attempts at linear clasiifica- 

 tion, i. 449. 



"Blind force" and "intelligent per- 

 sonality," ii. 429. 



Borda's pendulum experiment, i. 237. 



Botany as related to biology, i. 212. 



Boyle and Mariotte, their law of pres- 

 sures and densities, i. 206. 



Bradley's discovery of abeiTation, i. 204. 



Brain increases in heterogeneity with 

 mental labour, ii. 140. 



Brain-action, new theory of, ii. 141. 



Brewster's optical discoveries, i. 206. 



Bridges, J. H., I 252, 259 ; ii. 24S. 



Broussais, ii. 74. 



Brown, Thomas, i. 53. 



Bruno, Giordano, ii. 375. 



Buckle, H. T., his lack of the bi=toric 

 sense, i. 165 ; on Mohammedan civiliza- 

 tion, ii. 200 ; his philosophy of history, 

 ii. 229. 



Buchner, L., i. 123 ; ii. 4.35. 



Butterflies and their colours, ii, 25 ; ia 

 Celebes and Java, ii. 56. 



Cancbrs. i. 198, 34.3. 



Carbon, its function a-3 a constituent of 



organic matter, i. 3j1. 

 Carinate buvls. ii. 51. 



Cartesian test of tnith, i. 99, 108 ; doc- 

 trine of causal resemblance, ii. 380 



Cats and humble-bees, i. 303. 



Cats' whiskers, ii. 90. 



Causation, universality of. i. 53; source 

 of our belief in, i. 146 ; Hamilton's 

 theory ol, i. 148 ; Hume's theory of, i. 

 127, 155 ; hypothesis of occulta vis, i. 

 154 : does not imply constraint, i. 183 ; 

 volitional theory of, i. 158 j ii. 390 ; 

 Fen-ier's view of, ii. 183. 



Cause, efficient and phenomenal, i. 154. 



Causes and efiects, resemblance of, ii. 386. 



Cavendish's torsion-balance experiment, 

 i. 205. 



Celibacy of clergy, ii. 222. 



Cell-doctiine repudiated by Comte, L 

 247, 251. 



CepbaHc ganglia, their increasing im- 

 portance, ii. 87. 



Cerebral difierences between civilized 

 man and savage, ii. 316. 



Cerebrum and cerebellum, size of in dif- 

 ferent animals, ii. 133 ; functions of, 

 ii. 137. 



Chalons, battle of, ii. 262. 



Chambers, G. , his obituary notice of the 

 nebular hypothesis, i. 386. 



Chance and law, ii. 171. 



Chemical heterogeneity of the earth's 

 surface, how brought about, i. 431. 



Chemism, cohesion, and gravity, i. 291. 



Chemistry, i. 34 ; its relations to mine 

 ralogy, i 189, 212; wherein d:fierent 

 from physics, i. 192, 203 ; when consti- 

 tuted as ascience, i. 199 ; revolutionized 

 by Dumas, Laurent, etc., i. 225. 



Chinese, their small foresight, ii. £05 ; 

 primitive structm-e of their society, 

 ii. 248. 



Christianity, genesis of, ii. 169, 206, 218 ; 

 its political eifects, ii. 278. 



Christians foimerly called atheists, iL 

 469. 



Cicada and rattlesnake, ii. 29. 



Circulatory system, sttges of its evolu- 

 tion, ii. 145. 



Citizenship in Greece and Rome, ii. 221. 



Ci-i-ic communities, ii. 117. 



Civilization a process of adaptation, iL 

 202, 212. 



Clan-societies, their characteristics, iL 

 204. 



Classification as dependent on hereditary 

 kinship, i. 448. 



Classifying and reasoning, ii. 1C6. 



Climates, interdependence of, i. 404. 



Clover and humble-bees, i 308. 



Codfish, their rate of incj-ease, iL IL 



