Part 13

Correlation, 17, 166, 176.

Creation, sudden, not reconcilable with the order of nature, 25; theories of, compared, 32; prejudice in favour of its suddenness, 63, 64; Biblical theory of, 129.

Creations, many distinct, not warranted by scripture or science, 20, 116, 135; special, for special localities, untenable, 21.

Danes, ancient, food and weapons of, 104.

Darwin, his account of the development of his theory, 4; his calculation about elephants, 13; allusion to his theory of Pangenesis, 33; his explanation of the fauna and flora of mountain-tops, 46; his account of slave-making ants, 69; his treatment of geology, 134; his chapter on instinct, 163.

Darwinism, 3-33; obscurely anticipated, 2; its supporters, 3; prejudice against, 4, 152; its bearing on the seeming imperfection of nature, 24; inconsistent with a recent universal deluge, 31, 34.

Dawkins, Mr. W. Boyd, lecture on coal by, 143.

Dawson, Dr., Acadian Geology, 120, 140.

Day, Dr., paper by, on the Mud-fish and Anabas scandens, 28.

Denudation, 143.

Deucalion’s Flood, argument from rebutted, 150.

Development, theory of, by whom originated and supported, 4; opinion of its absurdity, 6; facts and principles necessary to, (variation, 7; Inheritance and Reversion, 9; struggle for life, 11; antiquity of the globe, 30; freedom of the globe from any recent universal catastrophe, 31); application of, to human body and mind, 62, 95; time required for, 122; not materially affected by hypothesis of spontaneous generation, 127.

Ducklings, experiment with, 73.

Earth, immense age of, required by Theory of Development, 30, 67; proved by geology, 31, 54, 107, 121; popular impression as to age of, 93, 121; reckoned by millions of years, 123.

Egypt, its monuments, 51; its chronology, 56, 101.

Elephant, its sagacity, 3; its rate of breeding, 13; its different species, 46; its memory, 66; epithet applied to it by Pope, 74; in Devonshire, 112.

Esquimaux, their ignorance of arithmetic, 103.

Flint-tools, 109, 111, 113.

Flood, the Noachian, 34-61; historical account of, 38; explanation suggested, 41; how consistent with Darwinism, 50; traditions of a, 58; no traces of its universality, 59.

Food, its influence on the animal and vegetable kingdoms, 12; in the competition for life, 22.

Fossils, an evidence of variation, 20; different in different strata, 116; time required for vicissitudes of, 119; necessary imperfection of, 134; their scarcity and abundance, 141; numerous chances of loss and destruction for, 146.

Fuegians, nakedness of, 112, note.

Galileo, his doctrine of the earth’s motion condemned, 60, 148.

Genesis, book of, its chronology, 55.

‘Genesis of Species,’ by Mr. Mivart, 173.

Geology, its conclusions, 31, 53; imperfection of its record, 133-146.

Giraffes, 176, 179.

Glacial Period, its effect on distribution of species, 47.