  A - Abstract and concrete, relations of, 174.
- Actions, voluntary and involuntary, 319.
- Analogies of the rudest societies to the lowest forms of life, 398, 402.
- Analogies of function between living beings and societies, 410.
- Annulosa, structure of compared to that of nations, 408, 422.
- Anthropomorphism, necessity of, 422.
- Architectural ideas, origin of, 439.
- Architecture, relationship to natural objects, 435; illustrations of, 435-437; town, why symmetrical, 435; country, why irregular, 437.
- Arts, interconnexion of, 187.
- Astronomic influences upon climate produce breaks in geological succession, 356.
- Automatic actions of men and governments, 426.
- Australia, fauna of, 350.
B - Bain "On the Emotions and Will," estimate of, 302.
- Beauty, its evolution from utility, 429, 433.
- Beliefs, how to judge of them, 442.
- Bow, derivation of the, 78.
- Breaks in the geological record, Hugh Miller upon, 355; produced by astronomic causes, 356; by re-distributions of land and sea, 359.
- Buildings related to landscape, 438; cause of incongruities in, 438; relation unintentional, 439.
C - Cambrian rocks, inference from their thickness, 366.
- Calculus, origin of, 158.
- Castles, built with no reference to art, 430.
- Cause, single, produces more than one effect, 32; illustrated in geological phenomena, 35; in chemical, 40; in organic evolution, 42; in social progress, 50; in use of locomotive engine, 53.
- Central America, effects of subsidence of, 38.
- Centrifugal force and condensation, 287.
- Cerebrum, analogy of to houses of parliament, 423, 426.
- Circulation in animal bodies and bodies politic, 410, 411; rates of movement in, 417; of money and blood-discs, 414.
- Classifications of science, progress of, 183; what they indicate, 125; Oken's, 125; Hegel's, 128; Comte's, 131; serial arrangement vicious, 144.
- Classification, the mental process in, 147; advances with rationality, 157; how it has aided science, 182; of the cognitions, 321; of the feelings, 323; in Psychology, for the present must be provisional, 300, 70.
- Muscular movements, cause of, 195; arrested by feeling, 199; in laughter purposeless, 201; of animals when excited, 211; variations of, produce changes of voice, 214.
- Music, increasing heterogeneity of, 26; relation of mental to muscular excitement, the source of, 214; theory of, 221-224; its history confirms the theory, 224-228; negative proof of theory of, 228-231.
- Murchison Sir R. I., criticism upon his "Siluria," 332, 340, 363, 366.
N - Nebula, are they parts of our siderial system? 243, 249; condensation of, 250; motion in, 251; significance of forms of, 254; structure of spiral, 254.
- Nebular hypothesis, 3, 34; its high derivation, 239; it explains cometary phenomena, 262.
- Negative facts in geology, small value of, 362-365.
- Nervous system, effects of excitement in, 195; directions of discharge of excitement in, 197; course of discharge unguided by purpose, 201.
- Number, origin of conception of, 154.
O - Oken's classification of knowledge, 125.
P - Painting and sculpture, origin of, 20.
- Paleontology neither proves nor disproves development, 367, 376.
- Picturesque, meaning of, 433.
- Planetoids, origin of, 289.
- Plato's model republic, central idea of, 388.
- Previsions and ordinary knowledge, 117; previsions known as science, 118; common and scientific, 123; when quantitative arose, 158; increase in precision, 171.
- Primary divisions of a germ and of a society, 404-407.
- Progress, current meaning of, 1; present inquiry concerning, 2; law of progress exemplified in the genesis of solar system, 3; in the phenomena of the earth's crust, 5; in the advance of life in general, 7; in the history of man, 10; in the growth of civilization, 12; in government, 13; in language, 17; in painting and sculpture, 20; in poetry, music, and dancing, 24; statement of the principle which determines progress of every kind, 32; the principle of progress illustrated in geological phenomena, 35; in chemical, 40; in organi
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