A

c

Civilized ages, inheritance of, 185, 186.
Climate, effects on races of, 109, 110, 188.
Coherence, faculty of, 52.

Colonization, days of, 98.

Commerce, a source of national corrup-
tion, 83.

Comtists, teachings of the, 53; opponents
of the, 58, 59.

Conditions of progress, 64
Conflict, uses of, 41-80, 144.
Conformists, 35, 146.

Congeniality of sentiment, a basis of selec-
tion, 98.

Contracts, 29.

Cooperating tendencies of persecution and
imitation, 103, 104.
Counting-boys, 121.

Credulity, imitative nature of, 93.
Cromwell's maxim, 76, 217.
Curtius, quotation from, 172, 173.
Custom, cake of, 27, 58; breaking chains
of. 158; yoke of, 161; slow removal of,
219; adherence to, 219; source of early
customs, 141-143.
Custom-making power, erection of a, 187;
easy divisions of society conduce to a,
143.

Customary law, authority of, 213–218.

D

Discussion, age of, 156-204; effect of, 161;
subjects of, 162: premium given to in-
telligence by, 162: in French political as-
sembly, 164: incentive given to poetry,
science, and architecture by, 165; in sav
age tribes. 166; in ancient Greece. 167-
169; Homer's Iliad. 169; beginning of
age of 170; discussion in writings of
Thucydides, Aristotle, and 'lato, 170,
171; advantages of government by. 179,
192, 203; enemies of, 192; inherited de-

estimate of English policy by people of,
156, 157.

Infant life, mortality of, 105.
Inheritance, principle of, 9.
Inherited drill, 18, 27.
Innovation, conservative, 81.
Instincts, waning of, 121.
Institutions, provisional, 71-74.
Investigations of Mr. McClennan and Sir
Intuitions, 118.

John Lubbock, 125, 126.

ceive of a nation, 20; conditions neces- |
sary to a polity, 184, 185; origin of, 84;
the product of two forces, 86; change of
87; transition from stationary to pro-
gressive state, 205, 206; nation-making,
77, 81-105; nation-changing, 77.
Natural selection, meaning of, 84.
Necessarian, doctrines of the, 10.
New England, distinctive national character
of, 97, 98; Shelley in, 146.
Nonconformists, 35, 146.

Pascal, saying of, 186
Paternity, idea of, 215.

l'atriarchal man, 17; mind of, 18; condi-
tion of, 19; morals of, 19, 20.
Patriarchal society, lineaments of, 13, 14.
Patriarchal theory, views of Sir Henry
Maine, 12, 22, 23; scriptural account of,
12; legal testimony, 13.
Patriarchs, 73.

Philanthropy, evils of, 189.

Physical conditions, over-estimate of, 85.
Physical science, rise of, 186, 187; effect of
over-activity on, 187, 188; in England,
204; humility in study of, 210; opinion
of Macaulay, 210; secrets of, 222, 223.
Political philosophy, how changed? 11.
Polity, origin of, 21-24; preservation of,
24-80.

Polytheism, weakness of, 76, 77.
Predominant type, copying of, 39.
Prehistoric age, one of license, 122-125;
migrations in a, 143, 144; occupations
of society in a, 147.

Prehistoric man, investigations of Sir J.
Lubbock and Mr. Tylor, 112, 113; mo-
rality of, 115, 122; testimony of Mr. Jow-
ett. 116; teaching of Mr. Gladstone re-
garding, 117: comparison of a modern
savage to, 120; flint tools belonging to,
121; lack of sexual morality in, 125; mar-
riage relations of, 125; remedies discov-
ered by, 127.

Prehistoric religions, 126, 127.

Principle of natural selection, predominance
in human history, 24; applied to human
progress, 43-50; applied to animais, 50,
51.

Principles of 1789, 29, 30.

Progress, different ideas regarding, 41, 42;
laws of, 43; conditions of, 64; source of,
160; in Athens, 171; in Judæa, 172-174;
rule of, 206; in art, 207; verifiable, 207-
224; quotation from Spencer, 209; causes
of, 210; slow, 210-212; coöperation neces-
sary to, 212.

R

Races, mixture of, 67-71, 144; unity of, 68;
opinion of M. Quatrefages, 68, 69; con-
test of, 82; original diversity of, 83; cli-
matic influences on the development of,
84-86; the cause of types, 183; prelimi-
nary processes in formation of, 136, 187;
broadly marked, 86; peculiarities of, 107,
108; multiplication of, 195.

Reflex actions, illustrations of, 4; natural,
5; artificial, 5; the basis of all improve-
ment, 6; rule of, 6.

Religions, fear an element in early, 55, 56;
function in civilization of awful, 57; Jew.
ish, 63; advantages of the higher, 216,
217; influence of discussion, 176; mili-
tary advantages of religion, 75.
Republics, of Greece and Rome, 28, 158;
quickening influence of early, 166; An-
dorre, 179; Semitic, 182.

Roman family, discipline in a, 123, 124.

S

Savage mind, described by Sir J. Lubbock,
18; delineated in poems of Homer, 18;
superstitions of the, 126, 127; peculiarity
of the, 120; quotation from Captain Gal-
ton, 51.

Savage nations, sameness of, 100; strength
of imitative propensity in, 101; perse
cuting tendency of, 102; wasting away
of, 47, 48.

Science of history, 11.
Selection, through infant mortality, 105;
favorites, 106; unconscious, 146; con-
scious, 146.

Settlements, formed of emigrants, 99.
Sir William Hamilton, saying of, 207
Slave-owning communities, laws pertaining
to children in, 122.

Primitive animals, 17.

66 morality, 20.
46 weapons, 16.