Hamlet, the “Origin of Species” like “Hamlet” without Hamlet, 363

  Handiest, a man should do whatever comes handiest, 51, 52

  Hare, Buffon on the, 123, &c.

  Hartmann’s philosophy of the unconscious, and “Life and Habit,” 56, 57

  Hearing, when we once reach animals so low as to have no organ of, we lose this organ for good and all, 379

  Heredity and habit, Buffon on, 148, 159, 160, 161, 162

  —— only another term for unknown causes, unless the “Life and Habit” theory be adopted, 384

  Hering, Professor, referred to, 66, 67

  —— his theory as given in “Nature” by Ray Lankester, 198-200

  Herschel, Sir John, compares natural selection to the Laputan method of making books, 10

  Higgling and haggling of the market, 50

  History of the universe, each organism is a, from its own point of view, 31

  Horse and ass, Buffon’s most pregnant passage on the, 80, 90, 91, 100, 101, 142, 143, 155, 164, 311

  —— and man, skeleton of the, 88, 89

  —— and zebra, Buffon on the, example of irony, 80, 155, 164

  Hume, his saying that generation is more remarkable than reason, 233

  Huxley, Professor, referred to, 93

  —— pointed out to Professor Mivart the difficulty in the way of natural selection, 344

  —— his ignorance concerning the earlier history of evolution, 392, 393

  Hybridism, Buffon on, 117, 118

  Hybrids, sterility of, Lamarck on, and C. Darwin on, 272, 273

  IDEAS, the bond or nexus of our, 23, 29, 30

  Ignorance, the prevailing, concerning the earlier evolutionists, 61

  —— it is easy to hide our, under such expressions as “plan of creation,” or natural selection, 358

  Imitation, instinct not referable to, as maintained by Erasmus Darwin, 202

  Immutability of species and design commonly accepted together, 9, 10

  Improvements, small successive, in man’s inventions, 44, 46, 47, 54, 55, 384

  Inaccuracy of thought, C. Darwin accused of, 359

  Incipiency, of complex structures, a difficulty in the way of the Natural selection view of evolution, 21, 22

  Incorporate, the designer is, with the organism, 30

  Increase, geometrical ratio of Buffon on the, 123

  —— Lamarck on, 280

  —— Patrick Matthew on, 320, 321

  Indefinite, with C. Darwin the variations are, 342, 344

  Indifference, I say I am more indifferent than I think I am, whether mind is or is not the least misleading symbol for the cause that sustains the universe, 371

  Indirect action of conditions of existence according to Lamarck, 294, 299, 306. (See “Conditions of Existence”)

  Individuality, Buffon on, 128

  —— of buds, Erasmus Darwin on the, 207, 208

  —— our, a consensus, or full-flowing river, 318

  Infallibility, possible results of the doctrine of Papal, 406

  Insectivorous plants, Erasmus Darwin on, 206

  Instep, ligament that binds the tendons of the, Paley on the, 22

  Instinct, present, does not bar its having arisen in reason and reflection, 53, 54

  —— returns to its earlier phase, i. e. to reason on the presence of the unfamiliar, 54, 55, 56

  —— and reason, Buffon on, 110-116

  —— Darwin, Erasmus, on, 115, 116, 204

  —— not referable to imitation, as maintained by Erasmus Darwin, 202

  —— is reason become habitual, 203

  —— reason perfected and got by rote, 256

  —— and reason, Lamarck on, 256, 257, 274

  —— referred to experience and memory, by Patrick Matthew, 322

  Insult, “Evolution, Old and New,” not intended as an insult to men of science, 392

  Interaction of want and power, 44, 45, 47, 217, 218, 221, 300, 323

  —— of body and mind, Lamarck on the, 338, 339, 341

  Interesting, the more interesting the animal the more evolution Buffon puts into his account of it, 84

  Intermediate forms, Lamarck on, 283, 286

  —— C. Darwin, 284, 285

  Inventions, small successive improvements in man’s, and development of, analogous to that of organism, 44, 46, 47, 54, 55, 384

  Irony, good-natured and the reverse, 91

  —— an apology for, and explanation how far it is legitimate, 111, 112

  —— Buffon’s, 78, &c., 91, 92, 93, 155, 157, 163, 164

  JARDINE, Sir W., on Buffon’s character, 82

  Johnson, Dr., and Erasmus Darwin, 184, 185

  Joints, Paley on the human, 19, 20

  Juggle, Paley’s argument a juggle, unless man has had a bonâ fide personal, and therefore organic designer, 14, 16

  KNEE-PAN, Paley on the human, 18

  Knowledge, nomenclature mistaken for, 141

  LABOUR, glory comes after, if she can, 76

  Lamarck, had brain upon the brain, 36

  —— never quite recognized design, 39

  —— Haeckel’s surprising statement concerning, 73

  —— wherein he mainly differs from Buffon, 105

  —— memoir of, 235

  —— his connection with Buffon, as tutor to his son, &c., 237, 258

  —— his daughters, 242, 253

  —— his poverty and blindness, 242, 253

  —— Isidore Geoffroy on, bad caricature of his teaching, 244-246

  —— Haeckel on, 246, 247

  —— never seriously discussed, 247

  — — “the well-known doctrine of,” C. Darwin’s reference to, 249, 250, 251, 298, 314, 376

  —— on the opposition his theory met with, 252

  —— too old to have begun his unequal contest, 253

  —— on the feeling of animals, 254, 255

  —— too theory-ridden, 254

  —— misled by Buffon (query), 255

  —— took from Buffon without sufficient acknowledgment, 255, 258, 260, 311

  —— as compared with Dr. Erasmus Darwin, 257

  —— like Dr. E. Darwin, sees struggle and modification turn mainly round three great wants, 257, 279, 300, 309

  —— when and how he came over to the side of mutability, 258

  —— and the French translation of the “Loves of the Plant,” 259

  —— on comparative anatomy, 266

  —— on species, 267, &c.

  —— on conditions of existence (circonstances), 105, 268, 270, 271, 275, 277, 278, 281, 291, 292, 294, 295, 298, 299, 300, &c.

  —— on instinct, 274

  —— on animals and plants under domestication, 275, 293, 296, 297, 300

  —— on extinct species, 277

  —— anticipated Lyell in rejecting catastrophes, 277

  —— on the geometrical ratio of increase and struggle for existence, 280-282

  —— on embryonic development, 289

  —— the main principles which he supposes to underlie variations, 292, 299, 338, 339

  —— his contention that plants have neither actions nor habits, 295

  —— on use and disuse, 294, 296, 299, 301, 302, 304, 305, 307-309

  —— on the various breeds of the dog, 297

  —— habit a second nature, 300

  —— like Erasmus Darwin and Buffon, understood the survival of the fittest, 301

  —— on the way in which serpents have lost their legs, 303

  —— on wading and aquatic birds, 305

  —— on the eyes of flat fish, 307

  —— on man, 311, &c.

  —— on a single instance of considerable variation under domestication, 311

  —— on speech, 313, 314

  —— on the upright position of man and certain apes, 313

  —— his, and Étienne Geoffroy’s views on conditions of existence, 326, 327, 328

  —— his hypothesis, and Isidore Geoffroy, 329

  —— Herbert Spencer on, 330, 331

  —— desired to discover the law underlying variations, 337

  —— the extent to which he and C. Darwin take common ground, 335-337

  —— on body and mind, 338, 339, 341

  —— on his theory variations will be definite, will appear in large numbers of individuals at the same time, for long periods together, 341

  —— how he and C. Darwin treat the winglessness of Madeira beetles respectively, 373-380

  —— on the eyes and ears of cave-inhabiting animals, 378, 379

  Laputan method of making books, the, and natural selection, 11

  Lawyer’s deed, if we come across a very intricate, &c., 27

  Leopard, the, can change his spots if it becomes worth his while to try long enough, 40

  Lewes, G. H., on embryology, 25

  —— his objection to the tentativeness with which the same errors are repeated generation after generation, 26

  —— his objection to C. Darwin’s language concerning natural selection, 346

  Lewes, G. H., on natural selection, 348, 349, 359

  Life, some remarks about the criterion of, that I must retract, 279

  —— one Proteus principal of, 320

  “Life and Habit,” what I believe to have been its most important features, 67, 203, 204

  —— recapitulation of the main principle insisted on, 37, 56, 203, 380, 381, 384

  —— and Hartmann’s philosophy of the unconscious, German review, 56, 57

  Lifetime, considerable modifications effected during a single, 304

  —— the changes undergone by organisms during a single, Herbert Spencer, on, 332-334

  Ligament, the, which binds down the tendons of the instep, 21

  Living, Paley is but doing his best to earn an honest, 29

  —— forms of faith, or faiths of form, 339

  Lines, no sharp can be drawn, 47

  Lion and tiger, Buffon on the, 143, 145

  Llama, Buffon on the hereditary ills of the, 161

  Longevity, the principle underlying, 67, 380, 381

  Loopholes for escape, the “Origin of Species” full of, 358

  “Loves of the Plants,” French translation of the, 63, 259

  Lungs for respiration, and corkscrew for corks, Professor Clifford on, 7. (See also )

  Lyell, Sir C., and Lamarck, 277

  —— on the similarity between Lamarck’s theory and Mr. Darwin’s, 336, 337

  MACHINE, Paley declares animals to be neither wholly machines nor wholly not machines, 14

  Madeira beetles, the ways in which Lamarck and C. Darwin would treat their winglessness, 373-380

  Maillet, de, referred to, 70

  Mainspring, the true, of our existence lies not in these muscles, &c., 32

  Man, the designer of man, 30

  —— and horse, skeleton of the, 88, 89

  —— and the ape, 90

  —— and the lower animals, Buffon on, 107, 108

  —— Lamarck on, 311, &c.

  Manner, the, is the man himself, 77

  — — “but this is Mr. Darwin’s”, 378

  Manufacture, the, of tools and of organs, two species of the same genus, 39

  Margin, there is a margin in every organic structure, &c., 49, 50

  —— on the margin of the self-evident the greatest purchase is obtainable, 197

  Market, the higgling and haggling of the, 50

  Martins, M., his life of Lamarck, 235, &c.

  Matter less important than the manner, 77

  —— and mind, inseparable, 371

  Matthew, Mr. Patrick, his work on naval timber and arboriculture, 64, 65

  —— extracts from, 315, &c.

  —— Mr. C. Darwin on, 315

  —— on animals and plants under domestication, 324

  —— on will as influencing organism, 320, 321, 322

  —— on the struggle for existence with survival of the fittest, 320, 322

  —— and natural selection, 323

  —— on instinct and memory, and on the continued personality of parents in offspring, 321, 322, 323

  Means, C. Darwin’s dangerous use of this word, 345

  —— one sine quâ non for a thing is as much a means of that thing’s coming about as anything else is, 349

  Mechanism of animals, Paley on the, 14

  Mechanism of animals, evidence of design in any ordinary, 15

  Memory, and life and heredity, 37, 38, 39, 56, 67, 198-203, 332, 380, 381

  —— Professor Hering on, 198-200

  —— Patrick Matthew on, 322

  Meteoric, both want and power are, 44, 45

  Meninges, Buffon on the, 132

  Microcosm, each organism a history of the universe from its own point of view, 31

  Microscope, illustration from successive improvements in the, 46, 47

  Mind, “the least inadequate and misleading symbol,” for the power that has designed organism, 3, 371

  —— and body, Lamarck on, 338, 339, 341

  —— and matter inseparable, 371

  Misfortune, take advantage of, 51

  Misrepresentation, “great is the power of steady,” 251

  Missionaries should avoid trying to effect sudden modifications, 183

  Mistake, the power to make, rated highly, 29

  —— importance of, depends on magnitude rather than on the direction, 50

  Mivart, Professor, says that, “Mind is the least adequate and misleading symbol,” &c., 3, 371

  —— referred to, 22, 66, 67

  —— admits that his objection does not tell against the Lamarckian theory of evolution, 343

  —— points out that the admission of a principle underlying variations is fatal to C. Darwin’s theory concerning natural selection, 343

  —— on C. Darwin’s “haphazard, indefinite variations,” 343

  —— how Professor Huxley pointed out to him the objection to C. Darwin’s theory concerning natural selection, 344

  —— asks what is natural selection? and declares it to be repudiated by its propounder, 369

  —— declares it to be “nothing,” and a puerile hypothesis, 370, 371

  —— declares the causes of variation to be the causes of the distinction of species, 370

  Model, artificial, of a foot, and true foot, difference between, 24

  Modification. It is only on modification that reason reasserts itself, 55

  —— there have been two factors of, one producing variations, and the other accumulating them, 227

  —— arrived at by struggle round three great wants, Erasmus Darwin on, 226-229

  —— Lamarck on the same, 257, 279, 300, 301

  —— the cause of survival, not survival the cause of modification, 302

  Moral, an organism is most, when looking a little ahead, but not too far, 44

  —— struggle, the history of organic development, the history of a, 45

  —— more, and safer, to be behind the age than in front of it, 401

  Movement, Buffon’s great criterion of sensation, 127

  Mummies, Egyptian, Lamarck on, 274, 275

  Murphy, Rev. J. J., mentioned, 22

  —— referred to, 66, 67

  Mutability of species commonly held to be incompatible with a belief in design, 9, 10

  Mystery-mongering, that Buffon wished to protest against, 81, 171

  Mystification, scientific, and orthodoxy, Buffon on, 138

  NAIVELY, as Mr. Darwin naively adds, “sometimes equally convenient,” 354

  Natural selection, the essence of the theory is that the variations shall have been mainly accidental, 7

  Natural selection, the unerring skill of, 9

  —— Sir William Thomson and Sir John Herschel on, 10

  —— Button, and, “by some chance common enough with Nature,” 122

  —— spoken of as though synonymous with descent with modification, 248, 285, 356

  —— C. Darwin attributes the instincts of neuter insects to, 249

  —— Mr. Patrick Matthew and, 323

  —— like the secretion of a cuttle-fish, 332

  —— G. H. Lewes’s objection to C. Darwin’s language concerning, 346

  —— if this is declared to be a cause, the fact of variation is declared to be the cause of variation, 347

  —— declared by C. Darwin to be a means of variation, 347

  —— treated as a cause, 348

  —— G. H. Lewes on, 348, 349, 350

  —— identity with “conditions of existence,” 351-354

  —— according to C. Darwin, “fully embraces” and yet “is included in” conditions of existence, 355

  —— a cloak for want of precision of thought, and of substantial difference from Lamarck, 358

  — — “some have even imagined that it induces variability;” and small wonder, considering C. Darwin’s language concerning it, 362

  —— C. Darwin’s reply to those who have objected to the term, 362-368

  —— a cloak of difference from C. Darwin’s predecessors, under which there lurks a concealed identity of opinion as to main facts, 362, 363

  — — “implies only the preservation of such variations as arise,” &c., 363

  —— admitted by C. Darwin to be a false term, 364

  —— the complaint is that the expression has been retained when an avowedly more accurate one is to hand, 365, 366

  —— only another way of saying Nature, 368, 369

  —— the dislike of it is increasing, 368, 369

  —— Francis Darwin does not use the expression, 368, 369

  —— daily and hourly scrutinizing throughout the world, &c., 369

  —— practically repudiated by C. Darwin himself, 369

  —— Professor Mivart declares it to be “simply nothing,” 370

  —— a “puerile hypothesis,” 371

  —— and not disuse, the true main cause of the winglessness of Madeira beetles, according to C. Darwin, 374

  —— not the main cause of the winglessness of Madeira beetles, according to C. Darwin, 377

  — — “combined probably with disuse,” will account, according to C. Darwin, for the winglessness of Madeira beetles, 375

  Naturalistes, le peuple des, 80, 171

  Nature, the personification of comparatively venial, 367

  —— and natural selection the same thing, 368, 369

  —— the most important means of modification, and variation the cause of variation, 369

  Neck, Paley on the human, 17, 18

  Need, sense of, the main idea in connection with evolution that is left with the reader by the “Zoonomia,” or “Philosophie Zoologique,” 363

 

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