of existence, and the survival of the
fittest, 227, 232, 259
Darwin, Mrs. Erasmus, death-bed of, 178
Darwin, Francis, mentioned, 109
---- his interesting lecture, 206
---- does not use the expression "natural selection," 368
Darwinising, Coleridge on, 21
Darwinism, the old Darwinism involves desire, invention, and design, 58
---- modern, falling into disfavour, 60
---- and evolution not to be confounded, 360, 361
Day, the portrait of, by Wright of Derby, 180
Death, violent, Buffon on, 126
---- of Dr. Erasmus Darwin, 193, 194
Death-bed of Mrs. Erasmus Darwin, 178
Deed, illustration drawn from a very intricate, 28
Definite, with Lamarck the variations are, 341, 344
_Degenerations_, 87
Demand and supply, like power and desire, 222, 300
Demonstrative case, "this demonstrative case of neuter insects,
&c.," 249, 298, 314
Descent, with modification, spoken of as though synonymous with
natural selection, 248, 356
Design, and organism, shall we or shall we not connect these ideas? 2
---- Aristotle denied, Plato upheld, Haeckel on, 4
---- Prof. Clifford's denial of, 6, 7
---- does certainly involve a designer who has an organism, who
can think, and make mistakes, 6, 24
---- a belief in both design and evolution, commonly held to
be incompatible, 9
---- Sir W. Thomson and Sir J. Herschel on, 11
---- Paley on, 12, &c.
---- light thrown by embryology on the method of, 25
---- G. H. Lewes opposes, 26
---- the three positions in respect to, taken by Charles Darwin,
Paley, and the earlier evolutionists, 31
---- the first evolutionists did not see that their view of
evolution involved design, 34
---- from within as much design as from without, 36
---- was equivalent to theological design, with the early
evolutionists, 36
---- if each step is taken designedly, the whole is done
designedly, 52, 384
---- and accident, the line between them hard to draw; shaking
the bag, &c., 53, 384
---- instinct originated in, 54
---- as much lost sight of with old-established forms of the
steam-engine as with birds' nests or the wheel, 55
---- Dr. E. Darwin's failure to see that evolution involves design, 195
---- we feel the want of, as much as we do of evolution, 407
---- evolution not only tolerates, but cannot get on without, 408
Designer, "I believe in an organic and tangible designer of every
complex structure," 6
---- "where is h
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