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Modern scientists, adherents of the mechanical philosophy, 188.

Molecular theories, 104.

Molecules, 203, 207.

Molière, 234.

Momentum, 184.

Monocular vision, 98.

Monotheism of the Christians and Jews, 187.

Montagues and Capulets, 87.

Moon, eclipse of, 219; lightness of bodies on, 4; the study of the, 90, 284.

Moreau, 307.

Mosaic of thought, 192.

Motion, a perpetual, 181; quantity of, 184; the Eleatics on, 158; Wundt on, 158; the Herbartians on, 158.

Motions, natural and violent, 226; their familiar character, 157.

Mountains of the earth, would crumble if very large, 3; weight of bodies on, 112.

Mozart, 44, 279.

Müller, Johann, 291.

Multiplication-table, 195.

Multiplier, 132.

Music, band of, its tempo accelerated and retarded, 53; the principle of repetition in, 99 et seq.; its notation, mathematically illustrated, 103-104.

Musical notes, reversion of, 101 et seq.; their economy, 192.

Musical scale, a species of one-dimensional space, 105.

Mystery, in physics, 222; science can dispense with, 189.

Mysticism, numerical, 33; in the principle of energy, 184.

Mythology, the mechanical, of philosophy, 207.

Nagel, von, 364.

Nansen, 296.

Napoleon, picture representing the tomb of, 36.

Nations, intercourse and ideas of, 336-337.

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