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INDEX 



Chicago, 149 



Characters, inborn and acquired, 



definitions of, 8, 202, 211, 215 ; 



enforced, 215 ; resulting from 



use and disuse, 215 ; useless, 



53, 249 

 Chicken-pox, 33, 36 

 Children, moral training of, 81 

 Cholera, 33 

 Civilisation, antiquity of, 102 ; and 



disease, 42 

 Climate, alleged influence of on 



sobriety, 113 

 Clutha, New Zealand, 155 

 Columba Livia (wild blue rock 



pigeon), 57 

 Consumption, 35, 40, 42, 44, 46, 



128 

 Contagious diseases, 28, 1 81-91 



Acts, 184, 265 ; in India, 184 



agitation against Acts, 185 



Royal Commission on, 270-1 

 Continuity of germ plasm, 207 

 Copemican doctrine, 6 

 Cranial capacity, 237 

 Cumberland County, United States 



of America, 1 50 



Darwin, Charles, 8, 12, 92 



Degeneration, 59, 91 



Diathesis, the alcohol, 80 



Disease, evolution against, 32 ; 

 acquired effects of not trans- 

 mitted, 33 ; and civilisation, 

 42 ; not on the same footing 

 as alcohol, 172 



Dragon-fly, 223 



Drinking habits, influence of 

 climate, 113; of strength of 

 beverages, 114; of civilisation, 

 117; of education, 117 



Drunkenness among Jews, 98 ; 

 Greeks, 100 ; Italians, loi ; 

 Germans, 103 ; British, 106 



Education, influence on habits of 



drunkenness, 117 

 Egyptians, ancient, drinking habits, 



197 

 Embryo, significance of, 252 

 Empire, Anglo-Saxon, and disease, 



47 



Enforced characters, 215 



England and Wales, density of 

 population, 148 



Enteric fever, 32 



Error, the fundamental errors of 

 temperance reformers, 160 



Esquimaux, 32, 89 



Evolution, general acceptance of 

 doctrine, 3 ; accepted of 

 necessity by Christians and 

 all sane men, 5 ; definition of, 

 7 ; due to stringent selection, 

 16 ; due to zymotic disease, 31 ; 

 affects only a few parts at a 

 time, 52 ; of language, morals, 

 religion, printing press, etc., 

 240 ; of altruism, 239 ; social 

 evolution, 241 



Factors of the craving for alcohol, 87 

 Faculties, musical, mathematical, 



artistic, etc., evolution of, 233 

 Fayrer, Sir Joseph, 135 

 Foresters, United Order of, 68, 69 

 France, increased consumption of 



alcohol in, 108 

 Fredericton (Canada), 154 

 Froude, Professor, 43 



