ence; and we may confidently believe with our greatest living poet That life is not as idle ore, But iron dug from central gloom, And heated hot with burning fears, To shape and use. We thus find that the Darwinian theory, even when carried out to its extreme logical conclusion, not only does not oppose, but lends a decided support to, a belief in the spiritual nature of man. It shows us how man's body may have been developed from that of a lower animal form under the law of natural selection; but it also teaches us that we possess intellectual and moral faculties which could not have been so developed, but must have had another origin; and for this origin we can only find an adequate cause in the unseen universe of Spirit. ་ INDEX Allen, Mr. J. A., on colour as in- Alluring coloration, 210 intelligence, supposed action of, characteristics of man, 454 usually die painless deaths, 38 most allied to man, 450 Arctic animals, supposed causes of Artemia salina and A. milhausenii, Asclepias curassavica, spread of, 28 Australia, spread of the Cape-weed fossil and recent mammals of, 392 Azara, on cause of horses and cattle B BAKER, Mr. J. G., on rarity of spiny Ball, Mr., on cause of late appearance Barber, Mrs., on variable colouring of on protective colours of African Barbs, 91 Barriers, importance of, in questions Bates, Mr. H. W., on varieties of on inedibility of Heliconidæ, on a conspicuous caterpillar, on mimicry, 240, 243, 249 Beddard, Mr. F. E., variations of on plumes of bird of paradise, Beech trees, aggressive in Denmark, Beetle and wasp (figs.), 259 Beginnings of important organs, 128 Birds, sexual coloration of, 275 choice of female not known to no proof of æsthetic tastes in, dispersal of, 355 and insects at sea, 357 of oceanic islands, 358 carrying seeds on their feet, ancestral forms of, 407 Boyd Dawkins, on development of on origin of man, 456 Brazil, supposed proof of glaciation Brewer, Professor W. H., on want of Bromelia, animals inhabiting leaves of, 118 Bronn, Professor, on supposed useless- Butler, Mr. A. G., on inedibility of Butterflies, varieties of, 44 small, of Isle of Man, 106 recognition by, 226 Carriers, 91 Caterpillars, resemblance of, to their Cattle, how they prevent the growth increase of, in St. Domingo, Chambers, Robert, on origin of species, Chance rarely determines survival, Change of conditions, utility of, 326 transferred from useless to use- Charaxes psaphon persecuted by a Chile, numerous red tubular flowers Chimpanzee, figure of, 454 of forests on the pampas, 23 Clover, white, spread of, in New Co-adaptation of parts by variation, Coccinella mimicked by grasshopper, Collingwood, Mr., on butterflies re- Coloration, alluring, 210 a theory of animal, 288 Colour correlated with sterility, 169 in nature, the problem to be constancy, in animals indicates and environment, 190 general theories of animal, 193 produced by surrounding ob- adaptations, local, 199 of wild animals not quite sym- as influenced by locality or development in butterflies, 274 of flowers, 308 change of, in flowers when fertil- in nature, concluding remarks of flowers growing together con- Complexity of flowers due to alternate Composite, a, widely dispersed with- Confinement, affecting fertility, 154 possible connections between, Continuity does not prove identity of his view of his own work, 10 on change of plants and animals on absence of wild cattle in on cats and red clover, 20 on the beneficent action of the on variability of common species, his non-recognition of extreme variability of wild species, 82 on constitutional variation in on unconscious selection, 96 of structure in inhabitants of on species of plants in turf, 110 on origin of mammary glands, on eyes of flatfish, 129 on rare perpetuation of sports, on utility of specific characters, on importance of biological en- |