INDEX. 



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Crux, the, of the early eTolutionist, 



35 

 Cuttle-fish, natural lelectlon lilce 



the secretion of a, 332 



DAMNATION, praising with 

 faint, 111 



Darwin, Charles, on the eye, denies 

 design, 8 



declares variation to be the 



cause of variation, 8, 347, 

 369 



and blind chance working on 



whither ; the accumulation 

 of innumerable lucky acci- 

 dents, 41, 42 



our indebtedness to, 62, 66, 



335 



has adopted one half of Isidore 



Geoffrey's conclusion with- 

 out verifying either, 83 



on Buffon's fluctuation of 



opinion, 97 



on Isidore Geoffroy, 97 



his assertion that Buffon has 



not entered on the ' ' causes 

 or means " of transformation, 

 104 



his meagre notice of his grand- 

 father, 196 



his treatment of the author of 



the "Vestiges of Creation," 

 65, 247, 248 



attributes the characteristics 



of neuter insects to natural 

 selection, 249 



his treatment of Lamarck, 



249, 250, 251, 298, 314, 376 



"great is the power of 



steady misrepresentation," 

 251 



his " happy simplicity " about 



animals and plants under 

 domestication, 276 



his notice of Mr. Patrick 



Matthew in the imperfect 

 historical sketch which he 

 has prefaced to the "Origin 

 of Species," 315, 316 



points of agreement between 



him and Lamarck, 335-337 



sees no broad principle under- 

 lying variation, 339 



Darwin dwells on the accumulation 

 of variations, the origina- 

 tion of which he leaves un- 

 accounted for, 340, 341 



his variations being due to no 



general underlying principle, 

 will not tend to appear in 

 definite directions, nor to 

 many individuals at a time, 

 nor to be constant for long 

 together, 342 



speaks of natural selection as 



a cause of modification, while 

 decUring it to be a means 

 only, 345, &c. 



his explanation of this,384,4c. 



his dilemma, as regards the 



"Origin of Species," 346 



declares the fact of variation 



to be the cause of variation, 

 8, 347, 369 



if he had told us more of 



what Buffon, &c., said, and 

 where they were wrong, he 

 would have taken a course, 

 &c., 357 



on the ease with which we can 



hide our ignorance under a 

 cloud of words, 358 



apologizes for having under- 

 rated the frequency and im- 

 portance of variation due to 

 spontaneous variability, 368 



his " Origin of Species " like 



the oj>inion of a lawyer who 

 wanted to leave loopholes, 

 or an Act of Parliament full 

 of repealed and inserted 

 clauses, 353 



accused of confusion and in- 

 accuracy of thought, 359 



as just as Arietidcs himself, 



364 



most candid literary opponent 



in the world, 364 



declares Nature to be the most 



important means of modifi- 

 cation, and variation to be 

 the cause of variations, 369 



like a will-o'-the wisp, 372 



disuse, the main agent in re- 

 ducing wings of Madeira 

 beetles, 377 



