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Caterpillars, 417

Causation implies a first cause, 35, 45;
hence a Creator, 45
Chaldean chronology, 150
Chance, Cicero on, 84

Chinese, their educational system, 332
Christianity, the religion of the world's
greatest men, 15; will be verified by
science, 15; a revelation, not an
evolution, 477; not the product of
civilisation, 478; not the natural
growth of Judaism, 489; continual
and ever-growing power of, 501
Chromosphere, sun's, 226
Chronology, comparison of Biblical
and Chaldean, 150; Archbishop
Ussher's, too restricted, 442
Civilisation, failure of, to regenerate
mankind, 27; ancient, 304, 342, 343;
not always progressive, 305, 306;
modern, 343; future, 344; not in-
compatible with impurity and super-
stition, 478; does not foster religion,
478

Clairvoyance, 385
Climate, 91-3
Clouds, 174

Clover, red, 410

Colour, 159, 177

Coloured stars, 424, 425
Comet-matter, 178
Coming man, the, 17

Consciousness, 100, 411; theory of,
422; embraces the past and future as
well as the present, 459
Conservation of energy, the law mis-
applied, 31; favours the immortality
of the soul, 322; new direction by
creation, 371

Continuity, doctrine of, involves reality
of the supernatural, 30, 372, 376;
break of, by creation of the visible
universe, 371

Coral, 200, 407
Creation, Biblical account of, not a
myth, 15; misrepresented, 49, 329;
scientifically correct, 50, 138; a

scientific summary, 51; if true, must
be inspired, 51, 52; narrow and me-
chanical views of, 57, 58; meaning of
word, 121; days of, 128, 140; their
order rhythmical, 133; process of,
182, 183; Biblical account of, Divine,
217; not instantaneous but continuous
and progressive, 134, 141, 257-9;
comparison of Bible statements of,
with those of the philosophers, 252;
the two Divine accounts of, examined,
282-90; Chaldean account of, 291-4;
symbolical character of the Scripture
narratives, 296; spiritual meaning of,
295, 296; Mosaic account of, written
in poetical and popular language, 437;
contains no revelation as to time, 443
Crime, hereditary, example of, 363
Crowberry, the, 402

Crystallisation the result of a mysterious
agency, 62, working by law, 84

D

Days, of creation, not common days,
129, 144; interpretation of, 140
et seq.; the seventh day, 145, 149;
various uses of the word "day," 146;
duration of, unknown, 147, 206, 442;
symbolical, 150

Deity, the, acknowledged in science as
the "inscrutable power," 36; a
person as well as a power, 37, 53;
not unknowable, 39, 53, 54; more
than the universe, 39; pantheistic
views of, 470; personality of, 471;
one God, a primitive faith, 481
Design in Nature, 13

Development, animal, 109, 262; em-
bryonic, 275; social, 342
Dew point, 172

Diabolical arts, 391; revival of, 392
Diamonds, artificial, 422

Diseases in men and animals, 361
Divination by magicians of Egypt, 391;
not to be explained, 485
Doubt, a hinderer of progress, 20; not
a mark of knowledge, 21; discom-
fort of, 21; honest, 29; dishonest,

29

Dreams, 381; mechanical theory of,
387
Drosera plant, 410
Dysteology, 277

Index.

505

E

Earth, the, rudimentary, 80; form of,
87; age of, 88; progressive formation
of, 88, 134; eccentricity of orbit of,
91, its influence on climate, 91;
crust of, 92, 187; antiquity of, 140;
primeval condition of, 184; specific
gravity of, 187; geologic epochs of,
189; life-history of, 191; changes
in, 427

Electricity, experiments with, 157, 163,

177

Elements, the, number of, 75, 398;

probably not homogeneous, 75, 398;
Nature's sparing use of, 79, 398
Embryos apparently alike, 239; de-
velopment of, 275; really different,
409

Entozoa, eccentricities of, 413
Epochs, geological, 189 et seq.
Ethical ideal, necessity of, 10, 26;
highest and best found in the Bible,

IO

Ethics of the philosophers, failure of, 28
Evil, existence of, 115; physical, an
element of progress, 117; a conse-
quence of man's freedom, 313; cure
of, 315
Evolution theory, 107, 267; no explana-
tion of the origin of things, 107; not
inconsistent with the Mosaic cosmo-
gony, 134, 436; not incompatible
will Divine rule, 307, 308; no explana-
tion of essential differences, 455
Experiment with vapour, 67; with
electricity, 157; with electric light,
163, 177; with sulphurous acid gas,
177; pro lucing vortex-rings (Pro-
fessor Tait), 457; Mr. Crookes's, 398
Eye, an instance of design, 13; limited
in power, 161; of insects, 161; the
blind spot in, 411; defects of, 448,
449; excellences of, 450, 451

F

Firmament, the, 129, 168; water in, 175
First cause, necessity of, 35; infinite

and independent, therefore super-
natural, 35, 36

Fish, ancient types of, 247; affinities of
to higher creatures, 249; a climbing,
249

Fission a mode of reproduction, 245
Food, of plants, 179, 199; of man,
assimilation of, 360
Frog, peculiarities of, 410

G

Gases, molecular theory of, 400
Gemmation a mode of reproduction,
244
Genealogies of Christ, 141; deal with
epochs, 153, 155

Genius of unbelief (Coleridge), 47
Geological eras, 189-91

Geology, scientific, 184; chemical, 185
Germs, 194; specific nature of, 239,
244, 325

Glacial epochs, 91, 92

Good and evil, doctrine of, 40; ground
of our consciousness of, 41
Grasshoppers, peculiarities of, 416
Gravity not an essential of matter, 85
Greeks, ancient, the ablest people, 28;
becoming impure they degenerated, 28
Growth, 102; of plants, 198

Hare, 276

H

Heat, solar, 91; effects of, on animal and
vegetable life, 92; connection of, with
light, 157; effects of, on inorganic
matter, 421; tends to equalisation,
428

Heaven, a vision of, 73; heavens,
creation of, 125

Hebrew language, power of the letter,

132; destitute of scientific terms, 144
Hebrews, their conviction of the exist-
ence and presence of God, 25, the
cause of their greatness, 25; prophets
of, 493

Heredity, 267, 268, 406; does not ex-
clude variety, 269, 405; criminal,
363, 364
Hermaphrodites, 244
Heterogenesis, 245

eculiarities of, 413

Homogenesis, 245

Hydatids, how caused, 413
Hymenoptera, 417

Hypotheses as to origin of things, 44,
127; as to origin of life, 211
Hyrax (coney), 409
Holy Ghost, work of, 126

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Infidels not whole or comprehensive

men, 30
Infusoria, 107

Insects, 264; transformations, 416

J

Jelly-fish, 412
Jesus Christ, His teaching the highest
morality, II; His perfect humanity a
miracle, 19; His life, a real life, 19;
affirms supernaturalism, 26; His rule
inspires the highest virtue, 29;
genealogies of, 141, 153, 154; incar-
nation of, 213; made immortality
glorious, 483; prophecies concerning,
494, 495; character of, 499
Jews, their conviction of the existence
and presence of God, 25, the cause
of their greatness, 25; did not invent
Christianity, 489; marvellous work
wrought by, 497

Jupiter (planet), 173; in the same
state as was our earth, 173, 227

L

Lambert family, the, 409
Lamech's family, 27

Language, origin of, 333; peculiar to
man, 334, 336; theories of, 339; an-
cient languages, 341

Law, providence in action, 18; with-

out providence there can be no law,
18; does not preclude miracles, 394;
conformity of law and will, 395;
natural invariability of, confined to
our own experience, 397; deviations
from, illustrated by Babbage's calcu-
lating machine, 399; the rule of, a
miracle if wrought by chance, 426
Leaf structure, 402
Life, theories, 98; physical accompani-
ments of, 100; advent of, 101, 102;
origin of, 326; a mystery, 102, 103,
105; physical basis of, 103; vital
substance, 105; commencement of,
denied, 107; not a functional pro-
duct, 192; in other worlds, 196;
scientific hypothesis of, 211; specific
nature of, 239; general characteristics
of, 240; process of, 243; reproduc-
tion of, 244; succession of, 246;
progress of, 247, 327; transitions of,
248; unity of power, 261, of form,
261, of substance, 263; historical
succession of, 265-8; natural selec-

tion, 270; origin of species, 270;
human, 348; definitions of, 349; the
cause of organism, 349; personality,
351; automatism, 351; individuality,
353; body, soul, and spirit, 353, 354;
man's idiosyncrasies, 355; speciality
of human, 358; a physician's view
of, 361, 362

Light, 128; without the sun, 128, 157;
lights in the firmament, 131; nature
of, 156; connection of light and
heat, 156; vibrations, 158, 159;
actinic rays, 159; waves,
medium, 161; sensation of, 163;
sun's, occasional diminution of, 426
Lizard, the oldest reptile, 249; a link
between fish and bird, 250

M

Magnetism, animal, 388
Mamba (fish), 408
Mammals, 268

161;

Man, origin of, 134, 136; in "the
image of God," 135; antiquity of,
141; possibly surpassed in other
spheres, 192; threefold nature of,
289; descent of, 302; pre-Adamite,
302; more than a material organism,
320; not an improved beast, 323, 324
Manasseh a sorcerer, 392

Marsupials, 267; peculiarities, 410
Materialism, does not account for man's

spiritual nature, 16, 17, 30; material-
ists not whole or comprehensive men,
30; incapable of explaining natural
phenomena, 31; the idolatry of
matter, 52; does not account for the
origin of things, 60, 63; fails to
account for human progress, 461
Matter, forms of accidents not essentials,
6; worshipped as God, 52; the
origin of all that exists an assertion
of presumptuous ignorance, 57, 260;
known only by mind, 63, 456;
creation of, 65; mutation of, a help
to a belief in the supernatural, 67;
primal, 75; the elements possibly not
ultimate, 75; nature and constitu-
tion of, 76; structure of, 77; always
moving, 81; not self-motive, 85;
known only by its manifestations of
energy, 85; union of mind with, 111;
sky-matter, 177; does not develop
mind, 237; a fourth-dimension form
of, 396; radiant, 398; living, 405;
inorganic, changes of, 420; scientific
conception of, 456

Index.

Memory, theory of, 387
Messiah, prophecies concerning, 494,
495

Metamorphosis, 417

Militarism, its degrading tendency, 345
Mill, John Stuart, on the recklessness
of the cosmic forces, 394

Mind, its union with matter, 60, 61,

III; its existence equally certain as
the existence of matter, 64; not a
development of matter, 237; the
master of matter, 260

Miracles, not the only marvels, 42; ac-
cepted by scientific thinkers, 43; pos-
sibly the result of an unknown law,
279; two classes of, 376; credible,
377; not incompatible with the reign
of law, 395; stupendous power used
in, 440; associated with the highest
wisdom and purity, 441; attest man's
redemption and immortality, 441;
man's existence the greatest miracle,
443; the record of, how discredited,
445; not à priori improbable, 459;
demonstrated, 469

Molecular energy, 80, 85-7
Molecules, 78; movement of, 79
Monkeys, 276; why they never can
speak, 454

Morality, based on divinity, 13; needs
Divine sanction, 26; an all-pervading
sense, 477; of the Bible, 488
Moses, of a scientific spirit, 132; reared
amidst idols, restores the knowledge
of the one true God, 217; his account
of creation inspired, 254; regarded as
a deceiver, 444
Myriapods, 418

Mythology, ancient, embodies the philo-
sophy and religion of prehistoric
times, 479; the key to, lost, 480;
symbolical history of the manifesta-
tions of one God, 481

N

Natural powers, man's, probable expan-
sion of, 10; but without religion will
not yield increased happiness, 10;
not the only powers, 43
Natural selection, the doctrine, 270;
rudimentary organs a difficulty, 277;
purposeless structures in animals in-
compatible with, 419

Nature, only one of the manifestations

of Divine power, 43; includes the
supernatural, 62, 279; variety in,
obtained with few materials, 79, 398;

507

variety in, not self-produced, 81; ever
changing, 81; wearing out, 89, 427;
laws of, uncompromising, 114, 394;
a splendid miracle, 258; progress in,
308; the result of preternatural
energy, 374; uniformity of, a plat-
form for infinite variety, 394; never
at rest, 400; left to herself, would
soon come to a standstill, 427; lives
by dying, 447
Negro race, 311
New Jerusalem, 393

Nitrous oxide, its effect on the brain,
486

Occult sciences, 389

Ovum, development of, 109

Р

Pantheism, 470
Paradise, 285
Parasites, 116
Parthenogenesis, 416
Penguin, 410

Perca scandens, the climbing fish, 408
Perfume vapours, power of intercepting
calorific rays, 178

Personal God, a logical necessity, 37;
objections answered, 37-9; the author
of creation, 51

Philosophers, ancient, 98; account of
creation, 252-4.

Philosophy, ancient, failure of, to
regenerate mankind, 27
Phosphorus, allotropic forms of, 83
Physician's view of life, a, 361 et seq.
Planetary system, 88, 95

Plants, 131; creation of, 198; food of,
199; classification of, 202; order of
creation of, 204, 205; protoplasm of,
209, 403; plant life affords glimpses
of the transcendental, 212; action of
light on, 403

Pole of earth, change of inclination, 193
Porcupine men, 409
Prawn metamorphosis, 416
Pre-Adamite world, 302; pre-Adamite
men possible, 302

Prediction, a condition of consciousness,
484; a mysterious power, 485
Principles, two, of creation, a personal
intelligence and an impersonal power,
18; two, of government, providence,
and law, 18; these two unite in one
process, 18

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Rain, 175; in primeval times, 285
Red clover, 410

Religion, not obsolete as regarded by
some, 8; the externals of, only change,
8; not opposed to reason, 8, 22; the
summit and crown of science, 16;
both practical and experimental, 22;
its power to raise the whole man, 24;
based on the supernatural, 26; ac-
cepted by the best thinkers, 32; all
religions more or less claim revela-
tion, 54; not a product of human
culture, 472; based upon (1) a convic-
tion of a Divine and supernatural
power, 473, 475, (2) a belief in the
future life, 475, and (3) the reality of
evil, 475; Christian, not a human
invention, 488; Bible co-ordinates
morality with, 488
Reptiles, 191, 248

Revelation, the only infallible guide to
religious truth, 4; a special message
to our intelligence, 19; claimed more
or less by all religions, 54; both ex-
ternal and internal, 40; includes the
discoveries of science, 280, 460; in-
structs when science fails, 46; objects
of, 218

Richter's dream, 31; vision of heaven,
73

Rocks, the, 189-91
Rotifera, the, 409
Rudimentary organs, 277, 419; no ex-
planation of, 277

S

Sabbath day, 145, 149, 443
Salpa, peculiarities of, 412
Saturn (planet), 227

Scepticism, paves the way to sensualism

and superstition, II; held to be for
the scientific student the highest of

duties, 20; impedes intellectual pro-
gress, 20; when based on ignorance
is irrational, 35

Science, separated from Religion, un-
happy effects of, 2; tending to agree-
ment with Scripture, 4; men of, the
priests of the material universe, 16, 55;
inability of, to connect physical and
mental phenomena, 57; inadequate
to explain the origin of things, 60;
throws light on Scripture, 69; growth
of, 215; discoveries of, a revelation,
280, 460; occult, 389; does not clear
up the mystery of the universe, 408;
its opposition to Scripture constantly
being removed, 432; not to be looked
for in the Bible, 436; specialism in,
tends to narrowness, 446; agrees with
true doctrine, 453; at fault, 454
Scientific men, narrowness of some, I,
30, 446; the priests of the physical
universe, 16, 55

Sea, level, changes of, 92; composition,
398

Seven a mystic and symbolic number,
145, 146

Sight, human, rudimentary, 161
Silence from a conflict of sounds, 411
Silent members, 277, 418, 419

Sin, origin of, 312; liberty to, 313, 314;
original, doctrine of, 364

Sky, colour of, 176; artificially pro-
duced, 176, 177; matter, 177
Sleep, magnetic, 385
Solar system, 88, 89, 426
Somnambulism, 384
Sophists, the, 27

Soul, the, 288, 321; not to be materi-
ally explained, 321; the immortality
of, a scientific doctrine, 322; of the
beast, 354; beliefs as to, 481; im-
mortality of, a universal faith, 482;
transmigration of, 483

Sound, 159, 409; producing silence,

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