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Emerson, disorder of his works, 129.
his farewell letter to his parish, 131.
his guiding principle, 129, 130.
his inconsistencies, 129, 132.
his individualisin, 129, 130.

Existence after death. Expectation of, 133,
134.

Extemporaneous speech, 82, 83.

External conditions, their influence, 30.
Eye of the trilobite, 29.

FACTS in science. Alleged: how are they to
be tested, 51.

Ferrier on the brain, 93, 107, 121.
Force. Difference between physical and
vital, 67.
defined, 9, 92.

its spiritual origin, 16, 92.
Persistence of, 68.

Relations of chemical and vital, 122,
123.

Forces and motions are not the same, 78.
Chemical and physical, 65.

Forecast, evidences of, in nature, 42, 73, 113.
Form in physical organism. Cause of, 81.
Fossils. Human, 22.

Freedom. Elements of popular, 75.
Frey, his works on histology, 114.

on microscopic technology, 51, 69.
on the "cellular theory," 69.
on vital transformation, 70.
Frog. Huxley's experiments with the head-
less, 81.

Frogs, their automatic actions, 115.
Frontal development and intellectual
power, 96.

GALVANIC currents, their effects on the in-
fluential arcs, 94, 95, 96.

nervous arcs, 78, 94, 95.

his intercourse with Fredrika Bremer, Ganglia of nerves, 79.

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137.

Evolution and involution are a fixed equa-
tion, 68, 107.

Doctrine of: Birks on the, 102.
Carlyle on the, 63.

Case against the materialistic, 53.
Fatal flaws in Huxley's, 19, 20, 31.
is not necessarily antagonistic to
religion, 15, 32.

its demands in regard to time,
26-28.

its relation to biology, 1.
Jevons on the, 32.

Kingsley on the, 16.
Lotze on the, 49.

Missing link in the, 22, 31.
Objections to, 26, 27, 31.
Theistic forms of the, 4.

the rock on which the radical
form of it is wrecked, 43, 68.
Tyndall on the, 10.

Various forms of the, 41, 53.

Evolutionists. Concessions of, 18, 34.

Varying schools of, 4, 30, 33, 53.

Gaseous state. Life incompatible with the,

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his method of discussion, 49.

on mind and matter, 14.

Harp and the harper symbolical of body
and soul, 67, 89, 109.,

Harvard University. Teaching at, 86.
Henle on the cell theory, 50.

Herschel, Sir John, on the soul, 84.
Historical retrospects, their value, 49.
Human fossils, 22.

Huxley, defects and inconsistencies of his
"6 New York Lectures," 3.

German estimate of, 103.

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IDEALISM, 73.

Identity. Personal, 12, 13, 110, 111, 142, 145.
Immortality of the lower animals, 97.
Immortality of the soul, Arguments for the-
1. Life is the cause, not the result, of
organisation, 44, 67.

2. The soul is indestructible, 56.
3. Its relation to the body is that of a
rower to a boat, 44.

4. The soul is independent of, and ex-
ternal to, the body, 81, 84, 85, 96,
109, 124.

5. The particles of matter in our body
are continually changing, and yet
the sense of personal identity is con-
tinually preserved, 110, 111.
6. In the metamorphoses of insects,
though the particles of the body
are changed, and therefore entirely
altered, yet their life and identity are
preserved, 110.

7. Belief in the immortality of the soul
is instructive and well-nigh uni-
versal, 133, 134.

8. The demand of the moral law for
"perfection" contains in it a postu-
late of immortality, 134.

9. Conscience prophesies that there
awaits us a future of righteous retri-
bution, 135.

Bryant on the, 136.

Emerson's views on, 128, 136.

is almost universally expected and
desired, 133.

is scientifically probable, 147.
Kant on the, 134.
Mahomet on the, 75.

suggested by the microscope, 43.
The physical basis of, 43.
Transcendentalism and the, 132.
Induction and deduction.

tween, 33.

Inductive method. The, 14.
Inertia defined, 9, 68.

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Intellectual principle. Draper on the, 86.
Internal activity not always dependent on
external irritation, 81.

Internal senses. Nerves of the, 118.
International scientific series. The, 52.
Intuitions are a test of verity, 73.

Testimony of the, 14.

Inquiry meetings, 127.

Involution and evolution, 68, 141, 142.

JACKSON'S political principle, 101.
Japan, its future, 137.

Jevons on the doctrine of evolution, 32.

KANT on the immortality of the soul, 134.
necessity of a cause external to nature,

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71.

origin of: Häckel on the, 34.

Sir W. Thomson's theory, 20.
Tyndall on the, 9.

or mechanism-which? 57-63.
The physical basis of, 36, 54.
Tennyson on the mysteries of, 44.
Lincoln, President, his early religious diffi-
culties, 55.

Living organisms consist of three parts, 37.
Living tissues. Agreement of Huxley and
Beale concerning, 58.

Lotze, Beale, and Huxley on, 46-56.
Sir W. Thompson on the origin of, 141.
the interest that attaches to investiga-
tion of, 58.

Difference be- Logical laws. The first of all, 104.
Lotze. Accounts of, 48, 114.

the invariable characteristic of matter,

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his supreme arguments against mate-
rialism, 73.

the great maxim of his philosophy, 108.
Lowell on the basis of life, 93.

MACAULAY's essay on Lord Bacon, 18
Madonna di San Sisto, 36.

Magnets and organic life, 40

L

Mahommedanism--its future, 137, 138.
Man. Carlyle on, 63.

consists of body, soul, and spirit, 147.
has not descended from the Ape, 22,
23, 31, 32, 33.

his complete nervous structure, 80, 81,
82.

his origin, 30, 33, 34,

is the true Sheckinah, 111.
The hairlessness of, 23.
Materialism. Forms of, 7, 8.

Illustration of the logic of, 123.

is discredited by the latest science, 62,

108.

its decline in Germany, 8, 74.

its failures, 141.

its failure to explain the collocation
of parts, 13.

its fundamental absurdity, 105.
its self-contradictions, 106.

its stupidity, 108.

Lotze's supreme argument against, 73
the rock on which it is wrecked, 68,
105, 113.

what it teaches, 35, 36, 40.
Materialistic doctrine of evolution.
against the, 53.

Matter and mind, 10-14, 104, 117.

Arrangement of, 72.

Miracles. Scientific proof of the possibility
of, 34.

Miraculous conception. The, 55.
Mivart on Darwinianism, 24, 30.
Molecular law, 32.

machinery, 40, 62, 72, 103.

motions in the nervous system, 124.
Molecules. Professor Maxwell on the exist-
ence and qualities of, 1.

Moneres. Häckel on the, 2.

Moody, Mr., effect of his preaching, 128.
his work in Edinburgh, 126-128.
the secret of his usefulness, 127.
Moral law. The demands perfection, 134.
Motion and force not the same, 78.
Motion. Cause of, 92.

Mound boulders of the Mississippi, 66.
Muscular fibre. Formation of, 41.

motion produced by electric action on
the brain, 94.

Mysteries are not self-contradictions, 124.

NÄGELI on the cell theory, 50.

Natural, definition of the term, 14, 15.
Natural law. God's relation to, 128.
Case Natural selection. Darwin's theory of, 20,
21, 23, 24.

Bain and Tyndall's definition of, 52,

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theology, its place in college studies,

119.

theology. Spencer on, 5.

Nature of things. Socrates on the, ror.
Nature. The animating principle of, 142, 143.
the unity of, 27.

Nebular hypothesis. The, 7, 11, 20, 32.
Nerve centres, 79.

Nerves. The and the soul, 76-88.
Automatic and influential, 115-125.
end in loops, 51.
Formation of, 41.

The mechanism of, 78, 86.

wondrousness of their formation, 62.
Nervous activities, automatic and influen-
tial, 117, 118.

Mental operations performed when half the Nervous fibres, 78.

brain is removed, 95.

are often obscure, 144.

Mesmeric force, 124.

influence. Transmission of, 79.

New lands, where they are to be discovered,
58.

Metaphysics and physiology-their harmony, Newspapers, 26.

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Pabulum, 38.

Senses. Nerves of the internal, 118.

Paganism, significance of its efforts to pro- Sermon on the Mount. The, 90.

pitiate supreme powers, 135.
Pantheism, a half truth, 128.

Emerson's, 129, 130.

summary of its teachings, 130.
Parallelism is not identity, 124.
Periods in the earth's history, 27.
Persistence of force. Fundamental require:
ments of the law of, 68.

Personal identity, 12, 13, 110, 111, 142, 145.
Philosopher's stone. The, 21.
Philosopher. The small, 25.

Philosophy. Distinction between writers
on, 146.

Phrenologists: elements of truth in their
teaching, 96.

Physical force differs from vital force, 67.
Physiological research can no longer be neg-
lected by students of religious science,
88.

Latest results of, 124.

Physiology and metaphysics, their harmony,

117.

Pierce on the spiritual origin of force, 92.
Plastids. See Bioplasts.

Poetic insight. Tennyson on, 137.
Protoplasm. Beale on, 2, 3, 36.
Huxley on, 56.

See also Bioplasm.

Protoplasmic theory. The, 52.

RANKE, his accordance with Beale, 53.
Raphael's Madonna di San Sisto, 36.
Rationalism, its decay in Germany, 105.
Registering ganglia, 79.

Religion, how it is to be defined, 127.
Religious science, 119, 146.

Resurrection of Christ, 139, 146.

Retribution. Eschylus on, 64.

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be tested, 51.

defined, 119.

Sexual selection. Theory of, 23.

Shakespeare, his delineations of human
nature, 133.

Shells. Growth of, 37.

Sleep. Awaking from, 81.
Sleeping birds. Safety of, 81.

"Smartness. American admiration for, 100.
Socrates on the immortality of the soul, 35.
on the nature of things, 101.

Soul.

the service he rendered to philosophy,

18.

The: a delegated power, 84.

a player invested with Gyges' ring,
76-78.

Admission of Draper concerning, 86.
Agassiz on certain arguments for the
immortality of the, 97-99.

and the brain, 36, 89.

competive theory of the soul-atom and
the soul-fluid, 143.

Daniel Webster on the, 89, 90.

Draper on, 12, 86.

Emerson and Carlyle on, 87, 131.

God's purpose in the creation of the, 37.
Goethe on, 57.

Grecian discussions concerning the, 64.
is more than the will, 117.

is not destroyed by the dissolution of
the body, 36, 85.

its immortality.

the Soul.

See Immortality of

its independence of the nervous me-
chanism, 76-78, 85, 93-96, 124, 141.
its origin, 56.

its personal continuance after death,
36, 85, 140.

its relation to the body, 12, 65, 78, 81,
91, 93-96, 109-111, 144.

physiological arguments for its immor-
tality, 109-III.

Relations between God and, 119.
Socrates on the, 35.

Teaching of materialism concerning
the, 35, 36.

the agent of consciousness, 85.
Ulrici's view of, 143, 144.

Specialists, their relation to philosophy, 120.
Species. A new definition of, 29.

Origin of, 4.

Variation of, 23.
Variability in, 28.

Spectroscope. The its revelations, 27.

its reasoning may fairly be tested by Spencer, Herbert, his biological theories, 65,

all scholars, 42.

what it owes to theology, 18.

Sciences are to be mutually tested, 106.

Scientific investigations, their relation to
religion, 99.

questions. Right of ministers to deal
with, 87.

Self-appreciation, 76.

Self-direction. The power of, 124.
Sensation. Mystery of, 122.
Senses. The and special nerves, 84.
their relation to the automatic nerves,
84.

their testimony to the existence of the
soul, 85.

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or formed matter, 38, 39.

Tyndall on the connection between matter
and mind, 10.

on the doctrine of evolution, 10.
on the existence of matter, 11.
on the failure of materialism, 68.
on the materialistic atheism, 9.
on the origin of life, 9.

on the properties of matter, 20.
Tyson on the cell theory, 70.

ULRICI, account of, 143.

on the spiritual body, 139-149.
Unconverted. The how they are to be
reached, 127.

Uniformitarian hypothesis. The, 21.
Useless peculiarities in man and animals,

23, 24, 30.

VARIABILITY in species, 28.

Variation produced by external condition,

30.

Venice. The ancient and the modern, 46.
Verity. Tests of, 73.

Vital action. Bain on the spontaneity of,
69.

Vital crystallisation, 73.

Vital force, its relations to the immaterial
principle, 144.

Vitality. Huxley on, 56.

life, and soul. Distinction between, 66.
Vital transformation. Frey on, 70.
Volition. Power of. See The Will.

Transcendentalism in New England, its dis- Voluntary and involuntary movements, 118.

tinctive doctrine, 132.

Trilobites. The, 29.

Truth, how it is to be reached, 119.

-Tests of, 106.

Turkish reforms, 138.

Tyndall. German estimate of, 103.

his Belfast address, 7.

his complaint of the yoke of Socrates,
Aristotle, and Plato, 10.

his effort to change the definition of
matter, 7-11, 17, 103.

his extension of the doctrine of evolu-

tion, 7.

his materialism and fatalism, 102, 103.
his "Musings on the Matterhorn," 7,

20.

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