ntures to hope that this treatise may not be
deemed useless, but have contributed, however slightly, towards clearing
the way for peace and conciliation and for a more ready perception, of the
harmony which exists between those deductions from our primary intuitions
before alluded to, and the teachings of physical science, as far, that is,
as concerns the evolution of organic forms--_the genesis of species_.

The aim has been to support the doctrine that these species have been
evolved by ordinary _natural laws_ (for the most part unknown) controlled
by the _subordinate_ action of "Natural Selection," and at the same time to
remind some that there is and can be absolutely nothing in physical science
which forbids them to regard those natural laws as acting with the Divine
concurrence and in obedience to a creative fiat originally imposed on the
primeval Cosmos, "in the beginning," by its Creator, its Upholder, and its
Lord.

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INDEX.

A.
Aard-Vark, 174.
Absolute creation, 252.
Acanthometrae, 186.
Acrodont teeth, 148.
Acts formally moral, 195.
Acts materially moral, 195.
Adductor muscles, 79.
Agassiz, Professor, 271.
Aged, care of, 192.
Aggregational theory, 163.
Algoa Bay, cat of, 98.
Allantois, 82.
Amazons, butterflies of, 85.
Amazons, cholera in the, 192.
American butterflies, 29.
American maize, 100.
American monkeys, 226.
Amiurus, 147.
Amphibia, 109.
Analogical relations, 157.
Ancon sheep, 100, 103, 227.
Andrew Murray, Mr., 83.
Angora cats, 175.
Animal's sufferings, 260.
Ankle bones, 158.
Annelids undergoing fission, 169, 211.
Annulosa, eye of, 76.
Anoplotherium, 109.
Anteater, 83.
Antechinus, 82.
Antenna, of orchid, 56.
Anthropomorphism, 258.
Ape's sexual characters, 49.
Apostles' Creed, 245.
Appendages of lobster, 161.
Appendages of Normandy pigs, 99.
Appendages of turkey, 100.
Appendix, vermiform, 83.
Appreciation of Mr. Darwin, 10.
Apteryx, 7, 70.
Aqueous humour, 76.
Aquinas, St. Thomas, 17, 263, 265.
Archegosaurus, 135.
Archeopteryx, 73.
Arcturus, 193.
Argyll, Duke of, 14, 276.
Aristotle, 288.
Armadillo, extinct kind, 110.
Arthritis, rheumatic, 183.
Artiodactyle foot, 109.
Asa Gray, Dr., 253, 255, 261.
Asceticism, 193.
Ascidians, placental