not inconsistent with catastrophes, 75 Life, more than mortal, 8, 14, 15; rudimentary, 8; principle, 23; the art of, 99; origin of, 109; the spiritual, III; seeming waste of, 115; from the dead, 119, 120; animal, 142; future, demonstrable, 149; the inner life of man, 177; not a product of matter, 179; consciousness not a necessary pro- duct of, 179; only from life, 187; varying in degree, 220; progres- sive, 248; possible survival of lower, 263
Light, action of, 28; an effect, 38; characteristics of, 103; transit of 162, 182; outer and inner, 227, 228
Locke, John, 129 Longfellow, 65
Lonsdale, Rev. James Gylby, 22, 244
Luther, 99, 171, 276 Lytton, Lord, 285
Macdonald, George, 37, 65
Man, the climax of Nature, 50; a son of God, 54; capacities, 72; calculates on immortality, 144; a failure if not immortal, 144, 246; physical history of, 170; faculties of, 194; the inner, 178, 184, 191; individuality of, 189 Marston, Westland, 59 Matter, all formed possibly of one essential substance, 23; in- destructibility of, 28, 38; three states of, 28; inert, 55; emble- matic (Carlyle), 146; and mind, action and reaction, 225
Men, the greatest devout, 7; of
genius, 10; of science, II; irreligious, 165; inspired, 168,
170 Meredith, George, 175 Milky Way, 291, 292 Mill, John Stuart, 74, 91, 180 Milton, 43, 219, 245
Mind, immortality of, 15; the domination of, in the universe, 50; can proceed only from mind, 187; and matter, action and reaction, 225
Mind-stuff, 69 Miracles, 294 More, Hannah, 136 Morley, Joseph John, 288 Morphological force, 141, 166 Morris, Lewis, 68 Music, 154
Musophilus," Daniel, 259 Myers, Rev. Frederick, 165 "Mystery of the Universe, The," 124
Nature, a revelation of the unseen, 17; the visible form of the Eternal Power, 32; never at rest, 39, 129, 153, 185; laws of, 49, 52, 75; man the climax of, 50; autonomy of, 55-57; main- tained by change, 75; process in, 76, an organic process, 298; nothing lost in, 75, 76, 186; not self-supporting, 82; definition of, 90; in connection with the super- natural, 91, et seq., 228; a reve- lation of the Divine, 101; pro- gress in, 68-70, 130, 248; operations of, not merely me- chanical, 131; laws of, modes, not forces, 146; true theory of, 159; judgment in, 259; under one
rule, 261; three stages in, 265, 268; naturalness of a future state, 267; purpose in, 290; one grand unity, 301 Neale, 265 Newton, 48
Nothing lost, 75, 76, 146, 147, 186
Old Father, an (quotation), 27 Onion, 241
Other worlds than ours, 264, 267, 268, 289, 301
Pain, explanation of, 301 Parker, W. Kitchen, 201, 280, 287 Pearson, 195, 274, 277 Photography, 77; application of, to astronomy, 78
Pig (fable), 162; pig and sheep (fable), 166
Pigeons, tendency in, to degenerate, 108
Plants, 152, 153
Plumptre, Dean, 207, 259 Polycarp, 135
Procter, Adelaide Anne, 9, 54, 73,
93, 115, 129, 140, 190
Progress, a testimony to immortality,
16, 58; the promise of further advance, 17, 35, 36, 51, 216; in Nature, 68-70, 130, 248, 291; a universal principle, 131; in this life, an earnest of the life to come, 159; or decay, 261; two modes of, 300 Prophecy, truth of, 205 Protyle, 219
Pythagorean philosophy, 69
Raleigh, Sir Walter, 24, 99 Rawson, George, 89
Reason, 24; in the natural world, 91, 94
Religion, founded on facts (Tyndall), 27; origin of, 134; progressive, 132; three stages in, 264 Resurrection, the, 274; -body, 222, 251, 252, 256, 257 Roe, J. W., 254 Romaine, 136
Rosse, Earl of, 245 Rutherford, Samuel, 135
Science, correct application of, I; acquisition of, 2; not the limit of our knowledge, 2; one principle throughout, 4; still in its infancy, 4; mental, 5; for enlargement of faith, 7; tends to a greater future, 8; scope of, 49; causation beyond the reach of, 53; progressive, 130; does not exclude the hope of immortality, 173 Scott, Sir Walter, 186
Seed, process of development of, 55, 59; fertility of, not inherent, 175 Seneca, 118
Sense, organs of, 29, 60; dependent on mental action, 31 Shairp, Principal, 106 Shakespeare, 169, 217, 246, 260 Sharp, William, 157
Sight, not mechanical, 22; produc- tion of, 52
Sin, effects of, 66; aspects of, 138 Socrates, 193
Solar system, 295
Soul, the, not by evolution, 175; surviving an ever-dying body, gives assurance of immortality, 177; individuality of, 189; in animals, 263 Southey, 142
Tait, Professor P. G., 38 Taylor, Isaac, 149, 191, 266 Temple, Frederick (Lord Bishop of London), 9
Tennyson, Lord, 3, 15, 30, 38, 52, 128, 137, 150, 157, 169, 173, 182, 185, 230, 239, 261, 280, 282, 285, 289 Tertullian, 145
Thought, not mechanical, 30; and speech, 123, et seq.; our highest thoughts are our best, 127; more than a function of the brain, 174
Thurlow, Lord, 176 Time, 103
Trench, Archbishop, 156 Turtle, respiration of, 200 Tycho, Brahé, 64 Tymms, T. Vincent, 232 Tyndall, Professor, 27, 264
Universe, not eternal, 46; the dominion of mind, 50; the manifestation of rational order, 51, 58; apparent inconsistencies in, 51; explanation, 54, et seq.; tending to rest, 71, 113; the present not the only, 75; sustained by supernatural power, 117; order in, implies purpose, 133; that purpose the highest purpose, 281; to be regarded as a whole, 281; a wealth of worlds, 292
Vaughan, Henry, 25, 77 Vincentius, 207
Vision, the three kinds, 195. See Sight
Waddington, Samuel, 178 Wallenstein, 9 Westcott, Canon, 60 Whewell, Dr., 92
Wordsworth, Wm., 174, 290 Working for good, 8, 14, 37, 48, 55, 64, 88, 100, 155, 179, 228, 238, 289
Worlds other than ours, 264, 267, 268, 289, 301
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