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INDEX. 



in the more complex sciences, i. 210, 

 243. 



Mediaeval philosophy, i. 24. 



Meldrum, C, on the relation between 

 sun-spots and rainfall, i. 406. 



Memory, changes in, ii. 14S ; rise of, ii. 

 155. 



Mental phenomena not identifiable with 

 material phenomena, i. 352, 412. 



Metamorphosis of energy, its wondrous 

 significance, i. 416. 



Metaphysics defined and criticized, L 26, 

 95, 105, 126, 143, 176. 



Meteorologic differentiations of earth's 

 surface, i. 403. 



Meteorology, i. 34, 190, 220. 



Meteors, i: 11, 391. 



Method of constructing a theory of the 

 universe, i. "265. 



Mice and humble-bees, i. 308. 



Michelet, J. , on the function of pain, ii. 

 462. 



Military activity diminished with pro- 

 gress of civilization, ii. 247. 



Military life as nourishing the altruistic 

 feelings, ii. 205. 



Military strength segi-egated into the 

 most highly civilized communities, ii, 

 259. 



MiD, James, i. 117, 221 ; ii. 82. 



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

 truth, i. 61 ; unwittingly contravenes 

 the experience-theory, i. 67 ; ii. 162 ; 

 his criticism of Comte's rejection of the 

 objective method, i. 135 ; of Hamilton's 

 view of causation, i. 148 ; h's own view 

 of causation, i. 150 — 154 ; refutes the 

 volitional theory, i. 159 — 161 ; his illus- 

 tration of the method of concomitant 

 variations, i. 23S ; his obligations to 

 Comte, i. 240 ; his remarks on bi- 

 ology, i. 245 ; his definition of Philo- 

 sophy, i 246 ; his opinion that the law 

 of causation is an induction per enume- 

 ratioiiem simplicem, i. 286 ; his remark 

 about uniformity of law, i. 289 ; his 

 estimate of the nebular hj'^pothesis, i. 

 364 ; his sutrgestion that strongly 

 marked individuality tends to dis- 

 appear in modern times, ii. 267 ; his 

 criticism of the Cartesian doctrine of 

 causal resemblance, ii 387 ; his remark 

 about Goi's goodness, ii. 407 ; his view 

 of the Rehgion of Humanity, ii. 

 417. 

 Mind not like a blank sheet, i. 46 ; ii. 

 151 ; can never be retolved into mo- 

 tions of matter, ii 442 ; law of its com- 

 position, iL 119 ; unit of, ii. 131 ; quan- 



tity of, correlated ^ith quantity of 



bi-ain, ii. 133. 



Mineralogy, i. 189, 220, 225. 



Miracles, ii. 379. 



Missionary enterprises, why so often 

 futile, ii. 142. 



Mivart, St. George, his theory that 

 Nature makes jumps, ii. 33 ; his objec- 

 tions to the Darwinian theory, ii. 50, 

 2S6 ; misinterprets Mr. Spencer, ii. 

 339 ; his view of the practical conse- 

 quences of the Doctrine of Evolution, 

 ii. 475, 506. 



Modem communities overworked, ii. 335. 



Modification of phenomena implies a cer- 

 tain amount of prevision, ii. 170. 



Moleschott on thought and phosphorus, iL 

 435. 



Monodelphia, ii. 50. 



Monotheism, i. 168. 



Moon, its physical condition, i. 378 ; a 

 type of the penultimate condition of 

 all the planets, i. 392; speculations as 

 to life upon it, i. 400 ; process by which 

 its distance is detemiined, ii. 99. 



Moral aspects of primitive society, ii 

 346. 



Moral government of the world, ii. 407. 



Morality and religion, their association 

 not arbitrary, ii. 453 j distinction be- 

 tween, ii. 465. 



Morphological testimony in favour of 

 derivation, L 459. 



Moths and lighted candles, ii. 332. 



Motion, transmission of, i. 6 ; how far 

 known, i. 16 ; continuity of, L 280 ; 

 how cognized, i. 232 ; modes of, i 290 ; 

 direction of, L 293 ; ii. 142 ; iirst law 

 of, i. 294 ; how far to be regarded as 

 eternal, ii. 391. 



Multiplication of effects, i. 354. 



' ' Muiio.il residua " in old violins, ii. 143. 



Musical sounds, constitution of, ii. 123. 



Mythology, its kinship with metaphysics, 

 i. 105, 143, 178; ii. 349. 



" Mvths and Mj th-makers," L 106, 178, 

 196; ii. 349. 



Nakcosis does not vary uniformly ao- 

 cordin<x to dose, i. 238, 



Nationalities, doctrine of, ii. 269. 



Natui-al laws and divine action, ii. 425. 



"Natural reason" in jurisprudence, iL 

 281. 



Natural selection, ii. 3 ; not limited to 

 slight changes, ii. 19 ; logical character 

 of the theoiy, ii. 46 ; wherein modified 

 by social conditions, ii. 258, 334 ; point 



