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Show 3DO DARWINIANA. ing, and leaving the questions we are concerned with just where they were. For it is still to ask: whence this rich endowment of matter ~ Whence comes that of which all we see and know is the outcome~ That to which potency may in the last resort be ascribed, Prof. Tyndall, suspending further judgment, calls mystery-using the ·word in one of its senses, namely, something hidden from us which we are not to seek to know. But there are also mysteries proper to be inquired into and to be r.easoned about ; and, although it may not be given unto us to know the mystery of causation, there can hardly be a more legitimate subject of philosophical inquiry. Most scientific men have thought themselves intellectually authorized .to have an opinion about it. " For, by the primitive and very ancient men, it has been handed down in the form of myths, and thus left to later generations, that the Divine it is which holds together all Nature ; " and this tradition, of which Aristotle, both naturalist and philosopher, thus nobly speaks 1-continued through succeeding ages, and illuminated by the Light which has come into the world-may still express the w"orthiest thoughts of the modern scientific investigator and reasoner. 1 flapa7i~007'CU o~ inro 7'~11 &p)ca((J)II Kal 7Ta~:rraJ..a((J)II ~~~ p.6£Jou uxf,p.an KaTaJ..eJ..Hp.,lla To'is fJuTepo11, 8n 1repdxet TO ®EION 7'~11 8J..7111 cpvuw.Arist. Metapltys., xi. 81 19. -- INDEX. Accident incidental to design, 11)4,.-157. Agnssiz, L., view of species, 19, 16, 163, 191, 200; how he diverges from Darwin, 16, 117, 120, 199; correspontlence of his en pi tal facts with Darwin's, 19; theory theistic to excess, 14, 20-22, 1M, 200; ·relation of tertiary to existing species, 49, 110; on age of Florida, 100; on prophetic types, 116; on intelligence of animals, 172; on destruction of species, 120; on geological time, 100, 162; on design in Nature, 154-156. Alnska, Sequoia fossil in, 228. Aldrovandn, insectivorous, 822. Analogy, use of, by Darwin, 47, 105; in proof of design, 365. Argyll, Duke of, on crentlon by lnw, 275. Aristotle, his definition of Nature, 889; his theistic view of N nture, 890. Atheism, relations of Dnnvinism to, 55, 58, 69, 188 sq., 154, 258, 266 Bq., 269, 270, 279, 379; to doubt ordinary doctrine of final causes not atheistical, 188. Au!tustine, St., on tho method of crea-tion, 357. · Austin, Mrs., on the California pitcherplant, 380. Bacon, Lord, view of Providence, 144. Baird, Prof., on varintion in the birds of North America, 244. Bartram, Willia.m, on insectivorous plants, 805. Beech, species of, now extending their limits, 186. Bentham, on the derivntivo hypothesis, 286, 242. . Bible, does not determine the mode of creation, 181, 201 ; a mirror of Providence, 142; interpretation of, partly a matter of probabilities, 261. Billiard-balls illustrate the proof of de-sign, 62-64, 69-74, 77. Birds, instinct of, 171. Bladderwort, insectivorous, 823. Boomerang, illustrating the method of proving design, 72. Breeding, thorough, 80; tendency of, to reversion, 841; close, evil effects of, 854. British flora, discrepancy of views re-garding, 8~. · Broccoli, origin of, 111. Brongniart, Adolphe, on distribution of species in tertiary period, 114. Brown, Robert, scientific sngncity of, etc., 284-2 9. Budding, propagation br, relation of, to deterioration of vnri tics, 341. Butler, Bishop, definition of natural, 61, 160, 250, 260. Buttcrwort, insectivorous, 825 ; digcs· tion of, 825. . Cabbage, origin of, 111. Califoruia, gigantic trees of, 207, see Sequoia; general chnrnctolistics of flora of, 208, 218; unlike that of the Atlantic· coast; 217. Canby, observations of, on sundew, 293, 800, 322; on Sarracenia, 880. Catnstrophcs in geology, 120. CaJ:,I~ ogg~~l~~~~?c~~~i,11 lrl;n~~~~~ . ence sometimes dependent on insects, 41. Cauliflower, origin of, 111. Ca0~of2Vllum, aud relatives, dispersion Cause, efficient, three theistic views of, 158-168. Cedar, species of, 188. Chair, classificntion of, 167. Chance, not admissible, 42, 55, 59, 68, 76-84, 147, 158, 168, 170, 285. China, relation of tlora of, to that of North .America, 2f4 sq. Classification, difference of opinion upon, 84-;. expresses j1td{Jment8, not fact.9, 85, 122, 184, 203, 280; expresses only the coarser gradations, 126, 142 ; see SpecieR, and Gradation. Climate, as affecting tho numbers of a species, 40; acts indirectly, 41; of the north in early periods, 114, 224. Climbing-plants, 831-837; feelns well as grow, 832; comparative advantage of their habits, 884; cause of motion, 881l. Cobbe, Frances Power, on the relation of God to the Universe, 284. Cohn, Prof., on Utricularia, 824. Complexity of Nature, 41. Competition sharpest between lllliod species, 42. Condor, rate of increase, 89. |