INDEX 
Haeckel, Ernst, his scientific 
faith, 172-175; admitted a 
psychic principle in the atom, 
308. 
Hare, least, or coney, or pika, 
33 
Hawk, Cooper’s, 84. 
Hawk, duck, 84. 
Hawk, hen, 116. 
Hawk, sharp-shinned, 98. 
Hawk, sparrow, young, 101, 
102. 
Hen-hawk, 116. 
Honey-bee, reproduction, 73, 
74, 
Horse, evolution, 278-280. 
“How,” and ‘‘ Why,’’ 300, 301. 
Hugo, Victor, quoted, 291. 
Huxley, Thomas Henry, his 
scientific faith, 166, 167; his 
conception of electricity, 170; 
his agnosticism, 171; his 
literary style, 186, 187; 
quoted, 186, 187; a fatalist, 
230; his three realities, 308. 
Indian loaf, 123. 
Indigo-bird, a family, 6. 
Insects, breeding-habits, 79, 80. 
Interpretation, 176, 177. 
Intuition, transcendental truth 
comes by, 223. 
James, William, on Bergson’s 
book, 201, 205. 
Jay, blue, and screech owl, 1. 
Junco, 93; migration, 99. 
Killdeer, 104. 
Kinglet, ruby-crowned, song, 
113. 
Lankester, Sir Edwin Ray, dis- 
agrees with Bergson, 201. 
Law, and chance, 228-233. 
Lemming, 68. 
Life, preponderance of the life- 
less over, 125-131; plan of, 
131; intelligence inseparable 
from, 132; reality of, 135- 
137; had no beginning, 213; 
play and interplay between 
spirit and matter, 213-217; 
matter its seat, not its 
source, 217; and chance, 233- 
261; mechanistic conception 
of, 233, 234; hampered and 
bound by matter, 244; as a 
traveler, 263-288; its begin- 
nings, 303-306. See also Evo- 
lution. 
Light, nature of, 289, 290. 
Lightning, favors certain trees, 
235. 
Lion, 16, 17. 
Literature, interpretation of 
life, 176, 177; compared and 
contrasted with science, 176— 
181; antipathy between sci- 
ence and, 183, 184, 194; love 
and contemplation necessary 
to, 183, 184; its use of scien- 
tific matter, 184-189; influ- 
ence of science on, 193, 194, 
196. 
Lodge, Sir Oliver, his extra- 
scientific step, 171, 189, 230; 
in accord with Bergson, 201, 
203. 
Loeb, Jacques, 171. 
Lookout Mountain, 49. 
Mallard, and hawks, 84. 
Man, littleness of, 129; a part 
of nature, 132-134; tran- 
scends his body, 141; extent 
of variation in, 295; steps in 
his progress from the animal, 
295-297; his fall, 297; future 
development, 307, 308. 
May, a morning of, 112-115. 
May-fly, 79. 
Mendelian law, 253. 
Milkweed, common, 87. 
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