ence; and we may confidently believe with one of the greatest poets of the century— That life is not as idle ore, But iron dug from central gloom, And heated hot with burning fears, 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. APPENDIX I AM glad to be able to quote the opinion of the late Professor Huxley in support of one of the more important arguments adduced in this chapter as to certain human faculties being such as could not have been developed by the agency of natural selection. Mr. Wilfred Ward (in the Nineteenth Century of August 1896) states, that Huxley once said to him: "One thing which weighs with me against pessimism, and tells for a benevolent Author of the Universe, is, my enjoyment of scenery and music. I do not see how they can have helped in the struggle for existence. They are gratuitous gifts." INDEX A ABBOTT, Dr. C. C., instability of on American water - thrushes Mr., drawings of caterpillars Acclimatisation, 94 Achatinellidæ, Gulick on variations Acquired characters, non-heredity of, 440 Acræidæ, mimicry of, 247 Adaptation to conditions at various Adolias dirtea, sexual diversity of, Ægeriidæ, mimicry by, 240 on North American weeds, 15. Albatross, courtship of great, 287 on degradation of wind-fertilised on insects and flowers, 332 Mr. J. A., on the variability 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 Artemia salina and A. milhausenii, Asclepias curassavica, spread of, 28 Australia, spread of the Cape-weed fossil and recent mammals of, Azara, on cause of horses and cattle 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 inedibility of some, 234 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 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 Darwin, change of opinion effected the Newton of Natural History, 9 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 origin of the eye, 130 on rare perpetuation of sports, on utility of specific characters, on importance of biological en- on variable fertility of plants, 155 on fertile hybrids among plants, 164 |