this case, the spiritual reunion of Christendom under Rome ceases to be impossible, or even, I should think, improbable. I heartily wish that my conjecture concerning future possibilities is not unfounded. Scientists have been right in preaching evolution, but they have preached it in such a way as to make it almost as much of a stumbling-block as of an assistance. For though the fact that animals and plants are descended from a common stock is accepted by the greater and more reasonable part of mankind, these same people feel that the evidence in favour of design in the universe is no less strong than that in favour of evolution, and our scientists, for the most part, uphold a theory of evolution of which the cardinal doctrine is that design and evolution have nothing to do with one another; the jar they raise, therefore, is as bad as the jar they have allayed. It has been the object of the foregoing work to show that those who take this line are wrong, and that evolution not only tolerates design, but cannot get on without it. The unscrupulousness with which I have been attacked, together with the support given me by the general public, are sufficient proofs that I have not written in vain. ABORTION, neutralization of working bees an act of ACCESSORY TOUCHES, varying, Buffon on 220 80 ACCIDENT, many of our best thoughts come thoughtlessly 42, 338 profiting by 44-47 and discovery of theory connecting meteors with comets 46 shaking the bag to see what will come out 47 effects of, transmitted to offspring, Dr. Erasmus Darwin, 198 and design, the line between these hard to draw 47, 337, 338 ACCIDENTAL variations thrown for as with dice 2 ACCUMULATION of variations, C. Darwin deals with the, and not with the origin of 300, 301 89 of small divergencies, Buffon on the ACCURATE, survival of fittest more accurate than nat. sel. and sometimes equally convenient 7, 8, 311, 312, 321 ACT OF PARLIAMENT, natural selection compared to a certain kind of AGE, old, the phenomena of AGGREGATION, the spirit of the age tends towards AHEAD, no organism sees very far ALDROVANDUS, Buffon on the learned 315 59, 179, 335 349, 350 39, 42, 47, 48, 337, 338 81, etc. ALIVE, when we must not say that an animal is alive (to be retracted) ALLEN, Grant, on Evolution, Old and New on the decay of criticism 245 339-341 341, 342 calls Evolutionism 'an almost exclusively English impulse' 346 108, 109 ALTERNATIONS of fat and lean years, Buffon on it ANALOGIES, false, all words are apt to turn out to be APES and monkeys, Buffon on 38, 337, 338 321 180 78 133, etc. and children fall on all-fours at the approach of danger 275 Apparentibus, de non, et non exiftentibus, etc. APPEARANCES, rather superficial, our only guide to classification ASCETICISM, virtue errs on the side of excess rather than on that of ship 31 ASS, the, and horse, Buffon's pregnant passage on their relation69, 78, 79, 87, 88, 123, 124, 136, 143, 274 AUTHORITY, a hard thing to weigh BACON, F., on evolution BALZAC, quotation from, on memory and instinct BEAVER, trowel incorporated into the beaver's organism winglessness compared 222 of their 328-334 40, 41 BEGIN, How could the eye begin? BEGINNINGS, of complex structures, a difficulty in the way of natural selection difficulty of accounting for a matter of conjecture and inference 18 40, 41 42 BEHIND, more moral to be behind the age than in front of it 353 44 42, 43, 45 48 148, etc. will modify nest a little, under altered circumstances nests, Dr. Erasmus Darwin's failure to connect the power to make them with memory aquatic and wading, Lamarck on BISHOP and EVÊQUE, common derivation of 177-179 269 312 BLINDFOLDED, we are so far, that we can see a few steps in front, BREVITY may be the soul of wit, but, etc. BROWN-SÉQUARD, his experiments on guinea-pigs' legs BUFFON, profoundly superficial plus il a su, plus il a pu, etc. dans l'animal il y a moins de jugement que de sentiment 113, etc. 196 278 267 182, 183 128, etc. 30, 39 45 BUFFON, ignorance concerning memoir of on glory, genius, and style ironical character of his work and method 53 65, etc. 66, 67 68, etc., 149, 150. See also Irony. on the ass, horse, and zebra 69, 78, 79, 87, 88, 123, 124, 136, 143, 274 would not play the part of Rousseau or Voltaire regards all animal and vegetable life as from one common source if a single species has ever been found under domestication, etc. on plaisanterie, and the learned Aldrovandus accessory touches especially' the same 71 71, 72 78 79 81, etc. 80 80 80, 83 84, etc., 143 89 fluctuation of opinion an unfounded charge 90 90, etc. on direct action of changed conditions 90, 126, 128, 139, 140 difference of opinion between him and Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck probably did not differ from Lamarck on man and the lower animals on classification 89, 105, etc., 129, etc., 139, etc. deals with these early, as giving him the best opportunities for illustrating the theory of evolution 243 approaches natural selection in his 'by some chance common enough in Nature' 106 preaching on the hare when he should have preached on the rabbit out of pure love of mischief resumption of feral characteristics 106, 107 106 |