England, conservatism in, 236, 237; education in, 237-239; free trade in, 243.
English literature, 111; woman in, 112, 113; colonisation, 232.
Ether, 22, 36; density of, 24, 25; waves, 26, 43; vibrations of, 27; attempt to identify, with atoms, 32, 35; nature of, 66.
Evil, origin of, 170, 173; attempts to reconcile it with good, 178; consistent with theory of God, 173, 202; modern treatment of, 224.
Evolution, 6, 8, 121; of religion, 4, 155, 156, 185, 186; of matter, 80; of life, 100; important facts in the history of, 123; does not tend to virtue, 173, 176; of moral ideas, 186, 191; of the horror of murder, 189, 190.
Fable of the shield, 227-230; applied to politics, 230; to commerce, 243, 244.
Fire, primitive means of obtaining, 41; worship, 207, 220.
Fish shells in the Tertiary epoch, 98; in the Silurian epoch, 99.
France, protection in, 246; state railways in, 261.
French Revolution, 231, 233; colonisation, 232; trade in a colony, 233.
Gases, law of, 11-13; in water, 14; kinetic theory of, 14, 33; substances reduced to, 44; expansion of, 45.
Geology, 5; records of, 96; earliest strata of, 97; vegetable records in, 96-98; animal records in, 99, 100.
God, Buddhist idea of, 161; a magnified man, 170, 171; Carlyle on, 171; Arnold’s definition of, 171; Jewish doctors on, 172; prevalent idea of miraculous intervention by, 173; the author of good and evil, 179; primitive Aryan word for, 200.
Gravity, the law of, 5, 16, 48, 49, 121, 144; atoms subject to the, 34; universal confidence in the, 148; a dangerous heresy, 164.
Heat, produced by work, 41, 42; nature of, 43; performs work, 44, 47; and electricity, 54, 61; and the stability of substances, 74; in chemistry, 75.
Heredity, the principle of, 117-121; in education, 240.
Hindoo religion, 152, 156; migration, 199.
Human remains in Tertiary period, 100; implements, prehistoric, 144, 145.
Huxley, Professor, v., vi., 78, 86, 122, 172, 203; on spontaneous generation, 85; on the protista, 94; on the uniformity of law in Nature, 146.
Hydrogen, 11, 13, 16-18, 70, 71, 74, 75; composition of, 15; in the sun, 26; in dynamite, 50; in water, 52, 68, 238; in the accumulator, 63; in acids, 69; in the protoplasm, 80; in a dead body, 88.
Hypnotism, 134, 192; blindness cured by, 165, 166; an old lady dancing through, 193.