INDEX 
Chance, plays an important 
part in life, 228; and law, 
228-233; and life, 233-261. 
Changes, slow and rapid, 105- 
111. 
Chemistry, on the road to life, 
239. 
Chestnut, flowers, 78. 
Chewink, in Georgia, 91, 96, 
97; scratching, 97. 
Chickadee, 83. 
Chickweed, 88. 
Chipmunk, an outdoor pet, 7- 
36; food and feeding-habits, 
7-9, 18-26, 36; well-groomed, 
10; nervous manner, 10; fear, 
11-15; ahawk-and-chipmunk 
incident, 12; den, 20-39; 
relations of the sexes, 23, 24; 
a hermit, 33. 
Choice, freedom of, 155. 
Claremont, Cal., 119. 
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 177. 
Coney, or least hare, or pika, 33. 
Corn, Indian, reproduction, 77, 
78. 
Counterfeits in nature, 121-124. 
Crow, 16, 86; caution and cun- 
ning, 99; social instinct, 101. 
Dana, James Dwight, 50. 
Darwin, Charles, 52, 138; his 
scientific faith, 163-165; his 
sexual selection, 190; as a 
creative evolutionist, 217- 
219; considered natural selec- 
tion a process, not a cause, 
267; great importance of his 
work, 270; his natural selec- 
tion theory, 271-280, 291- 
293; and the unknown factor 
in life, 308. 
Dover, England, 51. 
Duck, black, and hawks, 84. 
Earth, the, paradoxes of its 
sphericity, 148-150, 161. 
Electricity, atomic theory of; 
170. 
Elliott, H. 8. R., 201. 
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, quot- 
ed, 125, 142, 197, 241, 275; 
Arnold on, 197; his intuition, 
223. 
Ether, the, 159; a necessary hy- 
pothesis, 289-291. 
Everlasting (Antennaria), 77. 
Evolution, onward impulse in; 
138, 139; Bergson’s view 
of, 206-227; Darwin's view, 
217-219; hypothesis of a cre- 
ative impulse necessary, 262— 
288; unending, 306-308. See 
also Life and Natural Selec- 
tion. 
Experiment, speculation and, 
293, 294. 
Eye, evolution of, 292, 293. 
Fabre, Jean Henri, 79, 80. 
Faith, scientific, and theologi- 
cal, 159-162; of Wallace, 
163; of Agassiz, 163; of Dar- 
win, 163-165; of Tyndall, 
165; of Huxley, 166-171; of 
Lodge, 171; of Loeb, 171; of 
Haeckel, 172-175; increases 
as theological faith wanes, 
175. 
Falkland Islands, 52. 
Fate, and free will, 142-158. 
Firestone, 56. 
Flicker, food, 86, 
Frog, wood, hibernating, 38. 
Georgia, birds seen in, 90-104. 
Glaciers, slowness and power, 
109. 
Goethe, 111, 134, 182. 
Gravity, overcome by gravity, 
147. 
Grouse, ruffed, or partridge, a 
miscellaneous feeder, 85; a 
covey of young, 116. 
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