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Carbonic Acid Gas the food of vege-
tables, 164.

Caterpillars, transformation of, 393.
Causation implies a first cause, 27; the
denial of, denies a commencement,
36.

Chaldean chronology, 136.
Chance, Cicero on, 73.

Chinese, their educational system, 311.
Christianity, the religion of the world's
greatest men, 7; will be verified by
science, 8; the hope and promise of
future civilization, 324; on its trial,
408; a revelation, not an evolution,
451; not the product of civilization,
452; not the natural growth of Juda-
ism, 465; its continual and ever grow-
ing power, 477.

Chromosphere, Sun's, 211.
Chronology, comparison of Biblical and
Chaldean, 136; Archbishop Usher's
too restricted, 417.
Civilization, a means of human develop-
ment, 321; not unmixed with evil,
321; ancient, 321; modern, 322;
future, 323; promotes human power
and happiness, 452; not incompatible
with impurity and superstition, 452;
did not develop Christianity, 453.
Clairvoyance, 362.

Clergy, work of the, 437.
Climate, 80; its influence on plants and
animals, 81.
Clover, red, 386.

Coloured stars, 399; changing hues of,
400.

Coming man, the, 9, 10.

Consciousness, 89, 387; molecular mo-
tion, 397; embraces the past and
future as well as the present, 432.
Conservation of energy, the law misap-
plied, 23; favours the immortality of
the Soul, 301; new direction, by crea-
tion, 349.
Continuity, doctrine of, involves reality
of the Supernatural, 22, 350, 354;
break of, by creation of the visible
universe, 349.

Coral, an animal growth, 383.
Creation, Biblical account of, not a
myth, 7; unfairly criticised, 40;
scientifically correct, 41, 125; if true,
must be inspired, 43, 281; narrow and
mechanical views of, 47; days of,
117, 126; their order rhythmical, 121;
not instantaneous, but continuous and
progressive, 121, 127; comparison of
Bible statements with those of the
philosophers, 237; erroneous interpre-

tation of, 242; a manifestation of the
unknown, 243: the two accounts,
265, 269; Chaldean account, 273;
not a modern invention, 276; con-
veyed in poetical and popular lan-
guage, 413; contains no revelation as
to time, 417.
Crime, hereditary, 341.
Crystallization the result of a mysterious

energy, 53; working by law, 73.

Days of creation not common days, 117;
interpretation of, 126; not natural
days, 126, 130; the seventh day, 131;
various uses of word, 132; duration
of, unknown, 132.
Degenerate race, a, 341.

Deity, definition of, 28; a person as well
as a power, 29; not unknowable, 30,
44; more than the universe, 31; pan.
theistic views of, 444; one God, a pri
mitive faith, 455.

Design in nature, 5; accepted by real
science, 6.

Development, individual, 98; animal,
257; embryonic, 259; human, by
civilization, 321.
Dew-point, 158.

Diabolical arts, 369; revival of, 370.
Disease in men and animals, 339.
Divination possessed by the Magicians of
Egypt, 369.

Doubt, a hinderer of progress, 13; a
proof of ignorance, 14; discomfort of,
14; honest, 21; dishonest, 22.
Dreams, 359; an explanation of, 364.
Dysteology, 260.

Earth the, form of, 76; age, 77; eccen
tricity of orbit, 79; its influence on
climate, 79; progressive formation,
121; primeval condition, 169; speci
fic gravity, 172; crust, 172; geologic
epochs, 174; life history, 177.
Electricity, experiments with, 143, 150,

162.

Elements, number, 65; probably not

homogeneous, 65; nature's sparing use
of, 68; the globe consists of few, 376.
Embryos, seeming identity of, 225; dif-
ference, 385.

Entozoa, eccentricities of, 388.
Epochs, geological, 174.
Ethical ideal, necessity of, 3, 18; high-

est and best, found in the Bible, 3.
Ethics of the philosophers, failure of, 20.
Evil, existence of, 104; physical, among

the elements of progress, 106; tem-
porary, 107; a consequence of man's

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Fallen angels, 283.
Firmament, 118, 154; colours of, 162;
action of, 163.

First cause, necessity of, 27; infinite and
independent, therefore supernatural,
28.

Fish, early types, 233; a grunting, 384;
climbing, 384.

Fission, a mode of reproduction, 230.
Food of plants, 184; uses of, 337.

Gases, molecular theory of, 377.
Gemmation, a mode of reproduction,
230.

Genealogies of Christ, 127; deal with
Epochs, 139.

Genius of unbelief (Coleridge), 38.
Geological eras, 174.

Geology, scientific, 169; chemical, 170;
defines the life-time of the Earth, 174.
Germination of the Earth, 118.
Germs, 98, 179; proceed from pre-
existing life, 305; similar, yet, essen-
tially unlike, 305.

Glacial Epochs, 80, 81.

Good and Evil, doctrine of, 32; ground

of our consciousness of, 33; conscious-
ness of, the basis of religion, 33.
Grasshoppers change their skin fre-
quently, 391.

Gravitation, invariable action of, 372.
Gravity not an essential of matter, 74.
Greeks, ancient, the ablest people, 20;
becoming impure they degenerated,
309.

Growth, 91, 183.

Hare, 260.

Heat, solar, 80; connexion with light,

143; heat and cold, 396; tending to
Equalisation, 403.

Heaven, a vision of, 63; heavens, the,
creation of, 113.

Hebrew language, power of the letter D,
119; destitute of scientific terms, 131.
Hebrews, their conviction of the existence

481

and presence of God, 17; the cause
of their greatness, 18; prophets, 469.
Heredity, 253; does not exclude variety,
382.
Hermaphrodites, 230.
Heterogenesis, 231.
Homogenesis, 231.
Hydatids, how caused, 388.
Hymenoptera, 393.
Hypotheses as to origin of things, 36.
Hyrax, 385.

Ice, 397.

Image of God, 123.
Immortality, of the soul, a part of the
universal faith, 457; a pure and
glorious, revealed by Jesus Christ, 458.
Infidels not whole or comprehensive
men, 22.
Infusoria, 96.

Insects, 249; transformations of, 392.
Jelly fish, 387.

Jesus Christ, His teaching the highest
morality, 4; His life, 7, 11; a real
life, 12; affirms Supernaturalism, 18;
His rule inspires the highest virtue,
21; genealogies of, 127, 139; incar-
nation of, 198; made immortality
glorious, 450; not a Jewish invention,
465; prophecies concerning, 469-471;
character, 475; claims, 476.

Jews, their conviction of the existence
and presence of God, 17; the cause
of their greatness, 18; exhibit the
holiest life, 413; Old Testament re-
cord of, 464; their work in the world,
471; their high function as the teachers
of religion, 472.

Jupiter (planet), 158; in the same state
as was our Earth, 213.

Lambert family, 385.
Lamech's family, 19.
Language, origin of, 304, 312; progress,
313; language and reason, 313;
theories, 316; ancient languages, 319.
Law, not opposed to Providence, 10;
Providence in action, II; laws need
a Divine sanction, 21; conformity of
law and will, 373; natural invariability
of, confined to our own experience,
374; deviations illustrated by Bab
bage's Machine, 376; the rule of, a
miracle, if wrought by chance, 401.
Leaf, anatomy of, 379; arrangement,
379.

Life, theories of, 89; a mystery, 91; not
a functional product, 177; in other

Mill, John Stuart, on the recklessness of
the cosmic forces, 372.

Mind, its union with matter a mystery,
51; phenomena of, 100, 101; the
governing, 103; not an attribute of
matter, 308.

worlds, 181; specific nature of, 225; | Militarism, its degrading tendency, 323.
forms, 227; process, 229; reproduc-
tion, 230; inscrutible origin of, 231;
succession, 232; progress, 233, 289;
transitions, 234; unity of power, 245;
of form, 246; of substance, 248; order
of development, 248; plan of, 305;
beginning of, 306; human, 326; de-
finitions, 327; the cause of organisms,
327; personality, 328; automatism,
329; individuality, 331; body, soul,
and spirit, 332; man's idiosyncrasies,
333; human only rudimentary, 336;
man's speciality of, 339; proceeds
from death, 423.

Light, 116; without the sun, 116, 144;
lights in the firmament, 119; nature of,
142; connexion of light and heat,
143; waves of, 145; actinic rays, 146;
medium, 147; sensation, 149; un-
dulation, 385; sun's occasional di-
minution of, 400.

Lizard, 234; link between fish and bird,
235; power of, to renew lost limbs, 261.

Mammals, 252.

Man, origin of, 122; antiquity of, 127;
surpassed in other spheres, 178; three-
fold nature of, 273; descent, 284;
pre-Adamite, 284; more than a ma-
terial organism, 300; not of brutal
origin, 307.

Manasseh a sorcerer, 369.

Marriage a Divine institution, 270.
Marsupials, 252; peculiarity of, 386.
Materialism does not account for man's
spiritual nature, 9; materialists not
whole or comprehensive men, 22;
incapable of explaining natural pheno-
mena, 23; the idolatry of matter, 43;
does not account for the origin of
things, 50; fails to account for human
progress, 435.

Matter, the origin of all that exists an
assertion of presumptuous ignorance,
47; known only by mind, 54, 429;
creation of, 55; mutation a help to
a belief in the Supernatural, 57;
primal, 65, 116; the elements possibly
not ultimate, 65; nature and constitu-
tion of, 66; structure, 67; not self-
motive, 74; known only by its mani-
festations of energy, 74 ; union of mind
with, 101; sky-matter, 162; variety
in, 375; inorganic, changes of, 395;
objective reality of, discovered only by
experiment, 429; not the whole and
only reality, 461.

Messiah, prophecies concerning, 470.

Miracles, 34; not the only marvels, 34;
accepted by scientific thinkers, 35;
two classes of, 354; probable, 355;
a part of nature, 373; stupendous
power used in, 415; associated with
the highest wisdom and purity, 416;
attest man's redemption and immor.
tality, 416; the record of, how dis
credited, 420; not à priori improbable,
433; demonstrated, 443; have never
ceased, 473.

Molecular energy, 72.
Morality, 6; based on divinity, 7; needs
Divine sanction, 19; an all-pervading
sense, 452; of the Bible, 464.
Moses, of a scientific spirit, 120; reared
amidst idols, restores the knowledge
of the one true God, 202; his account
of creation wonderful, 202; written by
inspiration of God, 239; regarded as
a deceiver, 418, 419.
Mythology, ancient, embodies the philo
sophy and religion of pre-historic
times, 453; the key lost, 454; sym-
bolical history of the manifestations
of one God, 455.

Natural powers, man's probable expan-
sion of, 3; but without religion will
not yield increased happiness, 3; not
the only powers, 35.
Natural selection, the doctrine, 255;
rudimentary organs a difficulty, 261;
purposeless structures in animals, 394;
represents an unseen influence, 395.
Nature includes the Supernatural, 52;
in her working dress, 68; variety in,
obtained with few materials, 68;
variety not self-produced, 69; ever
changing, 70; tending to repose, 78;
laws of, uncompromising, 104; inter
penetrated by the Supernatural, 263;
requires infusion of fresh energy, 352;
laws of, generally invariable, 372; uni
formity of, a platform for infinite
variety, 373; all sided, 373; never at
rest, 377; left to herself would soon
come to a standstill, 402; lives by
dying, 422.

Negro, 291; born white, 300.
New Jerusalem, 370.

Nitrous oxide, its effect on the brain, 462.

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Occult sciences, 367.

Pantheism, 444.

Paradise, 268,

Parasites, 105.

Parthogenesis, 391.
Penguin, 386.

Index.

Perca scandens, the climbing fish, 384.
Perfume vapours, power of intercepting
calorific rays, 163.

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Personal God a logical necessity, 29;
objections answered, 29; the author
of creation, 42.
Pest-maiden legend, 459.
Philosophers, ancient, 87; account of
creation, 237, 238, 239.
Philosophy, ancient, failure of, to
generate mankind, 20.
Phosphorus, allotropic forms of, 71.
Plants, creation of, 183; life, 184; com-
position, 185; classification, 187;
order of creation, 190; preceded
animals, 193; of Divine origination,
195; peculiarities of, 381-386.
Pole of earth, change of inclination, 179;
Porcupine men, 385.

Prawn metamorphosis, 392.
Pre-adamite, world, 284; men possible,
284.

Prediction, a condition of consciousness,

460; a mysterious power, 461.
Priests of the physical universe, 46.
Principles, two, of creation; a personal
intelligence, and an impersonal power,
10; two, of government, providence
and law, 10; these two, unite in one
process, II.

Prophecy, 375; evidential value of,

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Rain in primeval times, 268, 269.
Red Clover, 386.
Reptiles, 234.

Religion not obsolete as regarded by
some, I; the externals only change,
I; the summit and crown of science,
9; both practical and experimental,
14; not opposed to reason, 15; its
power to raise the whole man, 16;
accepted by the best thinkers, 24;
mere knowledge of, not sufficient, 345;
not an evolution, 447, 448; rooted in
the desire to establish communion
with the Supreme, 449; based upon
conviction of a Divine and super-
natural power, 449; a belief in the

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future life, 450; and the reality of
evil, 450; universality of, 450.
Revelation a special message to our in-
telligence, 12, 15; both external and
internal, 32; includes science, 24,
434; instructs when science fails, 38;
objects of, 203; by discovery, 263;
an essential part of consciousness,
434.

Richter's Dream, 24.
Rotifera, 385.

Rudimentary organs, 260; no explana-
tion of, 262.
Russian legend, 459.

Sabbath-day, 134.
Salpæ, peculiarities of, 388.
Saturn (planet), 212.

Scepticism paves the way to sensualism
and superstition, 4; held to be for the
scientific student the highest of duties,
13; impedes intellectual progress, 13;
when based on ignorance is irrational,
27.

Science, 8; men of, the priests of the
material universe, 8; failure of, to con-
nect physical and mental phenomena,
47; inadequate to explain the origin of
things, 50; throws light on Scripture,
59; contradictory, 88; growth of, 200;
occult, 367; does not clear up the
mystery of the universe, 385; its op-
position to Scripture constantly being
removed, 407; not to be looked for in
the Bible, 411; specialism in, tends to
narrowness, 421; agrees with true
doctrine, 427; at fault, 428; a revela-
tion, 434.

Sea, composed of two elements, 376.
Sea level, changes of, 80.

Seven, a mystic and symbolic number,

131.

Silence from a conflict of sounds, 387.
Silent members, 393, 394.

Sky, colour, 161; artificial, 161; matter,
162.

Sleep, magnetic, 363.
Snails, 249,

Solar system, 84; the rule of law, as ex-
hibited in the, 401.
Somnambulism, 362.
Sophists, the, 20.

Soul, 271, 301; personal existence, 457;
of the beast, 332; beliefs as to the,
456; immortality of, a universal faith,
457: transmigration, 457; Spirits,
Communion of, 405.

Sound, 385; makes silence, 387.
Space, Elements of, 49; dimensions,

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Spirit, work of the, 115.

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Spiritualism, modern, 368; ancient, Touch, the mother sense, 262.

369.

Spontaneous generation, 94.

Stars, coloured, 399; variable, 400.
Sun, heat of, 80, 207; origin, 204;
age, 206; physical constitution, 209;
sun spots, 210; chromosphere, 211;
chemical constitution, 211; atmos-
phere, 212; theories as to source of
heat, 213; influence, 214; not the
source but sustainer of vital energy,
380; light subject to occasional
diminution, 400.

Supernatural, denied only by the un-
spiritually minded, 2; not unacceptable
to common sense, 5; the denial of is de-
nial of the Deity, 5; and withdraws from
morality its divine sanction, 6; the
essence of true religion, 18; rashly
denied, 26; acknowledged in the ex-
istence of an inscrutable power, 28;
an universal belief, 34; necessary to
explain nature, 52; the supernatural
in nature, 263; not unnatural, 353;
a universal conviction, 450.
Swedenborg, on the connection of the
natural and the spiritual worlds, 348;
his converse with the departed, 459.
Synthetic types, 384.

Table-turning, 368.

Transmission of genius, 363.
Trinity, Holy Doctrine of, 112.
Types, Synthetic, 384.

Universe, too vast for our comprehension,
47; the work of intelligence, 374;
tending to destruction, 413; a splendid
miracle, 442.

Venus Flytrap, 386.

Vision, a peculiarity of, 387; defects,
423.

Vision of Heaven, a (Richter), 62.
Visions, 361, 366.
Vital substance, 95; defies analysis,
382.

Vortex motion, 431; not to be explained
mechanically, 432.

Water particles, 67; however formed, the
same substance, 72; vapour of (1) sus-
pended in air, 156; (2) the greatest
absorber of radiant heat, 163.
Water-Flea, peculiarities of, 388.
Waters, the, bring forth, 119; primeval,
157; divided, 159.

Witch of Endor, a "medium," 369.
Word of God, 112.

World origin, ancient notions, 236.
Zulu theology, 457.

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