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INDEX. 



Specialists, narrowness of, i. 241. 

 Species, bifurcation of, ii. 18. 

 fc.l)oftrnin-analysis, i. 202, 207, 249 ; its 

 latest indications, i. 383 ; enables us to 

 meaiure the direct approach or reces- 

 sion of a star, i. 487. 

 Spencer, Herbert, his greatness as a psy- 

 choloo-ist, i. 163 ; his refutation of the 

 thaory of the " Three Stages," i. 173 ; 

 his refutation of the Cotiitean classifica- 

 tion, i. 204 ; his distinction between 

 abstractness and generality, i. 214 ; 

 his triple division of sciences, i. 216 ; 

 Ms opinion of Comte's speculations, i. 

 227 ; comparison of his achievements 

 with Newton's, i. 326, 351 ; his ex- 

 planation of the retrograde rotation of 

 Uranus, i. 365 ; his hypothesis regard- 

 ing the asteroids, i. 370 ; his theory of 

 the di-tribution of nebulae, i. 388 ; on 

 the functions of cerebrum and cere- 

 bellum, ii. 138; on the genesis of 

 nervo'is systems, ii. 146 ; " Ideas do 

 not govern the world," ii. 242 ; emen- 

 dation of his phrase " nervous shock," 

 ii. 444; his refutation of materialism, 

 ii. 446 ; description of the stale of 

 society toward which we are progTess- 

 ing, ii. 495. 



Spinoza, i. 24 ; erroneousness of his 

 method, i. 116; produced a crisis in 

 philosophy, i. 117 ; on the personality 

 of God. ii. 409. 



Spirit, ii. 395, 449. 



Spirits in pharmacy, i. 107. 



" Spiritualism," superstition of, ii. 379. 



Spontaneous o-eneration, i. 12 ', 243. 



Stahl, i. 127, '419. 



Statical and dynamical habits of thought, 

 ii. 371, 473. 



Status and contract, ii. 221. 



Stimulus, metaphysical doctrine of, L 

 197 ; dynamically defined, i. 412. 



Stewart, Balfour, i. 3!)5. 



Struggle for life, ii. 12. 



Struthious birds, ii. 67. 



Subjective method defined, i. 98. 



Subsidence and elevation, ii. 39. 



Sun, source of his heat, i. 359 ; must ulti* 

 mately become cold, i. 392. 



Sun-spots and rain-faU, i. 406. 



Symi'athetic nerve, its action on the 

 bloodvessels, i. 306. 



Sympathy, ii. 352. 



Tactile sensations, how compounded, ii; 



129. 

 Tactual sense, in man and lobster, L 17. 



Taine, H. A.,ii. 123. 



Tear and laiine, i. 446. 



Telcological hypothesis, its logical weak- 

 ness, ii. 385; overthrown by the dis- 

 coveiy of natural selection, ii. 397 ; 

 origin of, ii. 31 '9. 



Tennyson, iL 85, 462. 



Theism, i. 7 ; does not necessarily imply 

 personality of God, ii. 424. 



" TheoloT:ical," sometimes unfortunately 

 used by Comte, i. 196. 



Thermodynamics, i. 34. 



Thought and plio-iphorus, ii. 436 ; wherein 

 dependent on solar radiations, i, 413. 



Three sta:j:eR, Comte's theory of, L 168 ; 

 ii. 238, '215, 478. 



Tides, rhythm of, i, 305 ; checking pla- 

 netary rotation, i. 359, 393. 



Timaios of Plato, i. 102. 



Timhre, or quaUty of sound, source of, iL 

 125. 



Torricelli's discovery of atmospheric pres- 

 sure, i. 209. 



Toxodon, ii. 41. 



Transit-lines in brain, iL 139. 



Transitional forms, alleged paucity of, ii. 

 33. 



Transubstantiation and transacciJenta- 

 tion, i. 123. 



Trees in Europe and America, ii. 55. 



Truth, test of", i. 11, 45—71, '286 ; ii. 162; 

 definition ot, i. 45 ; ii. 246 ; does not 

 apply where experience is transcended, 

 L 11 ; ii. 3ia. 



Undulation, how necessitated, i. 300. 



Undulatory theory of liirht, i. 300. 



Unembodied spirit, ii. 395. 



Uniformity of belief and practice, its 

 dangers, ii. 273. 



Unit of mind, ii. 131. 



Universal proposition inferred from single 

 instance, i. 55. 



Cnivei-se, origin of, i. 6 ; how far un- 

 knowable, i. 15; ii. 413. 



Unknowable, doctrine of, rejected by 

 Positivism, i 82. 169, 262 ; misunder- 

 standings to which the term has given 

 rise, ii. 469. 



Uranus, his retrograde rotation, i. 356, 

 365. 



Use aud disuse, ii. 17. 



Verification, L 108, 127. 

 Vibration of particles, i. 20, 47. 

 Vibrissje, iL 90. 

 Vico's theory of cycles, i. 310. 



