426 



EVOLUTION, OLD AND NEW. 



Pessimism : " Which is the pessi- 

 mist I or Mr. Darwin ?" 59 



Peuple des Naturalistes, le, 80, 171 



"Philosophie Zoologique," sum- 

 mary of, 261-314 



the, leaves "sense of need" 



on the reader's mind ; the 

 "Origin of Species," natural 

 selection, 363 



Pig, Buffon on the, 118, &c. 



Pigeons and foivls, Buffon on, 169 



Plaisanterie, BuGfon's disclaimer of, 

 93 



Planted upside down, the verte- 

 brata regarded as vegetables, 137 



Plants under domestication, Buffon 

 on, 167, &c. 



Dr. Erasmus Darwin, on the 



life of, 206, &o. 



Lamarck's assertion that they 



have no action nor habits, 

 294, 295 



Plato upheld teleology, 4 



Plus il a su, &c. , 44 



Poem, a, by Dr. Erasmus Darwin, 

 189 



Poetry, Dr. Erasmus Darwin's, 83, 

 189, 193 



Pope's shoes, scientists would step 

 into the, if we would let them, 

 360, 394 



Portrait of Mr. Day, author of 

 " Sandford and Merton," 180 



Potto, the missing forefinger of the, 

 303 



Power and desire, interaction of,44, 

 45, 47, 127, 217, 221, 300, 323 



Praising, with faint damnation. 111 



Prescience, need not extend over 

 more than the next step, and yet 

 the whole road may have been 

 travelled presciently, 52, 384 



Present, development due to a wise 

 use of the, 50-52 



Probable, whatever in the teaching 

 of St. Thomas Aquinas is not 

 probable is to be rejected, 402,403 



Proficiency is due to design if each 

 step was taken designedly, though 

 the end was not far foreseen, 62, 

 384 



Protestantism tends towards dis- 

 integration, 396 



Proteus principle of life, one, 



320 

 Pump, Erasmus Darwin's poetry 



about the, 84, 193 

 Purpose, instinctive actions were 



once done with a, 64 

 spent or extinct, and rudi- 

 mentary organs, 38, 383 

 Purposive, if each step is purposive, 



the whole is purposive, 52, 384 

 Purposiveness : I maintain the 



lungs to be as pui-posive as the 



corkscrew, 5, 6, 7, 58 



RACE, the runners in a, and 

 natural selection, 366, 367 



significance of the words being 



used for a breed and a com- 

 petition, 366, 367 

 Racehorse or greyhound, " the well- 

 adapted forms of the," 359 

 Ranunculus aquatilis, Lamarck's 



passage on, 260, 297 

 Raleigh, Sir Walter, and evolution, 



21, 70 

 Ray Lankester, Professor, on Ber- 

 ing's theory connecting memory 

 and heredity, 198-200 

 Reason, there is less reason than 

 feeling in animals, Buffon, 

 SI 



perfected becomes instinct, but 



reasserts itself when the cir- 

 cumstances alter, 54, 55, 66, 

 203 



and instinct, Buffon on, 110, 



116 



Erasmus Darwin on, 116, 116, 



201-205 



a less remarkable faculty than 



generation, Hume on, 233 



and instinct, Lamarck on, 



256, 274 

 declared to he incipient in- 

 stinct, 256 

 S6el, au, Button's use of these 



words, 126 

 Relativity of the sciences, Bufi'on 



on the, 140 

 Religion, Buffon's appeals to,91,llo 

 Reopen settled questions, animals 

 cannot, serpents must have no 

 more than four legs, 303 



