Positivism, 167, 283, 300; an enlightened despotism, 303.
Primary and secondary qualities, in what they consist, 186.
Prayer, its efficacy, 241; should be confined to earnest desire and
aspiration, and faith in the order of nature, 242.

Pressure of population the mainspring of progress, 264.

Property, its unequal division, the only real remedy for this in-
equality, 288.

Proctor, R. A., on other worlds than ours, 7.

Propensities, the self-protecting, 69; the self-regarding, 77.

Purpose of design in creation-Bacon, D. Hume, C. Darwin, Duke of
Argyll, and Sir W. Thomson, on intelligence or mind in nature,
232; the "plan" being to create the largest amount of enjoy-
ment, 235.

Punishment always for our good, 127.

Queen Bee, how made, 53; passions of, 53; great mental difference
from the worker, 53.

Races, their specific gravity, 44; varieties, 49; probably not derived
from one stock, 49; colour-what dependent upon, 51; some in-
capable of progress, 52.

Revolutions are mainly destructive, we can build only on living
foundations, 294.

Realism and Idealism, 307.

Religious world, how created, 193.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua, on art culture, 145.

Religion must be harmonised with philosophical necessity, 230; the
Coming Religion and Christianity, 243; the expression of simple
reverence and trust, 243; the Religion of Humanity only another
form of Fetishism, 311; all "law" ought to have equally the reli-
gious sanction, 311; the New Religion the resignation of the indi-
vidual and personal to the infinite whole, 342.

Responsibility the natural and necessary consequences of our actions,
231, 309.

Right, right and might the same ultimately, 342; to do what is right
the great end of moral training, 343; "we must learn what is true
that we may do what is right," 342.

Richard II., account of his levées, 285.

Richardson, Dr. W. B., on the discovery of distinct centres in convolu-
tions of the brain, 34; measure of vital force at different ages, 46;
on a nerve atmosphere, 176.

Richter, Jean Paul, on the slavery to opinion, 72; no other revelation
than the ever-continuing, 231.

Robertson, Rev. F. W., on the female element in religion, 208; on
refined taste and sense of the beautiful, 329; on the something
worse than death, 330; on solitude, 335.

Sand, George, on the universal life, 335.

Seneca on life and death, 71; on free-will, 111.
Self-defence, 74.

INDEX.

357

Secretiveness, 76.

Self-esteem, 71.

Sermons, their revolutions, 315.

Sexual love, 79; its natural and necessary control, 82.

Sheppard, Nathan, an American, "Shut up in Paris," view of the
French character, 299.

Shakespeare and bear-baiting, competition between in Queen Eliza-
beth's time, 323.

Shakers, their conduct consistent with their creed, 207.

Shuttleworth, Sir J. K., on democracy, 287; on the great time re-
quired for all great changes, 293.

Sleep, its cause, 179.

Smith, Dr. Angus, on suspended particles and living germs in the
atmosphere, 6.

Smiles, Samuel, on the highest object in life, 333.

Social feelings, 79; not moral, 87.

Solitary confinement, effect of, 43.

Society, in the country about the time of Queen Elizabeth, 323; our
upper, middle, and lower class, 324, 325, 326.

Solitude, the necessity for in the cultivation of the higher feelings, 334.
Soul, its speciality dependent upon the organism, 259; the question
of its immortality, 259.

Spencer, Herbert, on animalcules, 10; atoms, 17; civilised man's
brain, 23, 68; on the nervous system, 25, 26; impressions of sight
and sound, 27; on phrenology, 32, 33; on life, 35; growth, 38;
on persistence of force, 107; on pressure of population as cause of
progress, 126; feeling an equivalent of physical force, 160; on
other-worldliness, 208; on latent energy and waste matter, 250; on
old age, 253.

Space purely subjective, not an entity, 102.

Spinoza on free-will and necessity, 108; God's power and essence the
same, 169; high priest of the new religion, 342.

Spiritualism, 173.

Stirling, J. H., on the desire of immortality, 70.
Statistics, 109.

Sun, 2; its spots, 4; how they influence the brain, 179; power, 5;
sun force and earth force, 6; atmosphere, 7; various ways of
utilising its power directly, 313.

Suicide, defence of in cases of hopeless and painful illness, 71.
Supply and demand, uncertainty in the application of the law, 271.
Superstition, 205, 206; effects of in Spain, 209.

Taste for good reading, equal to a large fortune, the result of careful
cultivation, 332.

Temperament, 39; description of, 41.

Temperature, we are affected by according to the electric condition
of the atmosphere, 178.

Tennyson, Alfred, on the purpose in creation, 236, 237, 239.

Tissues, drugs medicinal or poisonous according to their state, 44.
Torrens, Mr., M.P., on emigration, 271.

Trollope, T. A., on the influence of physical love, 64.

Twins alike, while other children differ, showing how much probably depends upon the period of gestation, 317.

Tyndall, Prof., on the earth's heat, 4; on the deep blue in the atmosphere, 6; on human consciousness, 26; on the tendency of modern science to break down the partition between the organic and the inorganic, 35; on sense of light, how formed, 100; nothing created, 108; consciousness and molecular motion in the brain, 159, 161; on evolutian, 229; where energy disappears it changes its form merely, 251.

Vestiges of the natural history of creation, on foetal changes, 25..
Vitativeness, tenacity of life dependent upon the organ, 48.
Vice and lunacy require the same treatment, 152.

Unconscious intelligence, 167.

Unity of God and Nature, 169.

Universe, eternal sacredness of, and of all life in it, 230..

Wallace, A. R., on race, 51; on instinct, 66; on natural selection, 129; man an exception, 132; on the moral sense, 134; on the brain of the savage, 135; on force and its source, or how produced, 224. Water, hard water wholesome, 59.

Wages, nature fixes the minimum at as little as a man can live upon,
it ought to be altered to as little as he can live comfortably upon, 280.
Wants that will bring all our faculties into daily activity, 329.
Wesley's, John, "Primitive Physick," 45.

Whitefield, George, effects of his preaching, causes of, 63.
Will, how determined, has special organ, 98.

Women, in what she differs from the man, 80; woman's rights, 81; burnt as witch, 85; worshipped by the Positivists, 85; women of genius infertile, 319.

World, the, idea of it how formed, 163, 180; governed by consequences, a revelation given to us all, 231; dissatisfied with God's world, we make a world of our own, 231, 234; the phenomenal world not a reality, but each creature creates its own and carries it about in its own head, 235.

Workmen's parliament, trades' unions, &c., 278.

Wyld, R. S., on force as alone existing, 165; physical power proportioned to mental effort, 172.

Youmans, Dr. E. L., on unity in creation, 27; on force, 36.

Zeno, the Stoic, on Fatalism, 126.

F. CALDICOTT, PRINTER, EARL STREET, COVENTRY.

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