INDEX

Acquired Characters, transmission of, 177

Adaptation, 119

America, visit to, 49

"Anti-Aggression League," 48

Athenæum Club, 42

Autobiography, 52

Baer's, Von, Law, 139, 140

Bateson, 190

Biologist, Spencer as, 93

Biology, Principles of, 94

"Blastodermic," 39

Body and Mind, 236

Born's experiments, 163

Carlyle, 30

Cell-life, 120

Comte, August, 29, 243

Creation, 145

Darwin, 165, 180

Darwinian Theory, 263

Death, 51

Descent, theory of, 146

Development, 113

Development Hypothesis, 31

Driesch, 163

Duncan, Prof., "The New Knowledge," 210

Dynamic element in life, 102

Economist, The, Spencer as sub-editor of, 28

Education, Spencer's, 259

Equilibration, direct, 197 Indirect, 198

Essays: Scientific, Political, and Speculative, 35

Evolution, factors of, 180 External factors, 195 Internal, 196 Universal, 209 Inorganic, 210

Evolutionism, summary of Spencer's, 212

Ewart, Prof. Cossar, 191

Experience and Intuitions, 238

First Principles, 38

Geddes, Prof., 31

Genesis, 123

George Eliot, friendship with, 31

Germ-cells, 150

Germ-cells and Sperm-cells, 167

Giddings, Prof. F. H., 250

Gribble, Francis, 83, 86

Growth, 110

Heredity, problems of, 156

Hudson, Prof., 51, 80, 85, 212, 239

Huxley, friendship with, 32

Illogical Geology, 36

"Inconceivability," 174

Individual Organism, comparison between it and Society, 253

Intuitions, Experience and, 238

Invalid bed, invention of, 41

Isolation, 190

Italy, tour in, 42

Iverach, Prof. James, 219

Jennings, H. S., 235

Joly, Prof., 259

Lewes, G. H., 30

Life, definition of, 98 dynamic element in, 102 mechanism of, 107 origin of, 220

Malthusianism, 262

Neo-malthusianism, 264

Man, Ascent of, 224

Manners and Fashions, 33

Mendelism, 208

Metabolism, 98

Metaphysics, Spencer's, 270

Mill, J. S., 39

Mind, evolution of, 221, 233 Body and, 236

Method in Education, 33

Morgan, Prof. Lloyd, 93, 105, 171

Music, the origin and function of, 34

Nutrition and Reproduction, 125

Organic matter, 96

Pearson, Prof. Karl, 108, 217

Philosophy of Style, 70

Physiological Units, 157

Physiology of Laughter, 36

Population, a theory of, 192 question, 260

Pringle-Pattison, Prof. A. S., 89

Prison ethics, 36

Progress, its Law and Cause, 34, 193

Psychology, Principles of, 33, 235

Railway Morals and Railway Policy, 33

Regeneration, 118

"Reader, The," 39

Religion, early attitude to, 271

Religion, later attitude, 274

Reproduction, Nutrition and, 125

Schäffle, 254

Science, the Genesis of, 33

Selection, 186, 194, 196, 204

Sidgwick, Prof., 241, 243-5

Social Organism, The, 36, 252

Special Creation, 145

Social Statics, 29

Sociological Society, 246

Sociology, 44, 242 criticism of, 243 and history, 247 data of, Spencer's, 249

Spencer, Herbert, ancestry, 1; boyhood, 7; characteristics, emotional and ethical, 74; intellectual, 54; physical, 52; engineering, 17; human relations, 82; inventions, 18, 27; limitations, 59; methods of work, 65; delight in nature, 81

Stout, Prof. G. F., 233, 237

Structure and function, 115

Synthetic Philosophy, finished, 50

Transcendental Physiology, 34, 193

Truth, test of, 241

Variations, 182

Vries, H. de, 165, 190

Wallace, A. R., 180, 227

Ward, Prof. James, 218, 237

Waste and Repair, 116

Weismann, germ-plasm theory, 159 sexual reproduction, 129 germinal selection, 186

"X" Club, 39

Youmans, Prof., 40