Illustrations of Universal Progress · Herbert Spencer
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Cambrian rocks, inference from their thickness, 366. Calculus, origin of, 158. Castles, built with no reference to art, 430. Cause, single, produces more than one effect, 32; illustrated in geological phenomena, 35; in chemical, 40; in organic evolution, 42; in social progress, 50; in use of locomotive engine, 53. Central America, effects of subsidence of, 38. Centrifugal force and condensation, 287. Cerebrum, analogy of to houses of parliament, 423, 426. Circulation in animal bodies and bodies politic, 410, 411; rates of movement in, 417; of money and blood-discs, 414. Classifications of science, progress of, 183; what they indicate, 125; Oken's, 125; Hegel's, 128; Comte's, 131; serial arrangement vicious, 144. Classification, the mental process in, 147; advances with rationality, 157; how it has aided science, 182; of the cognitions, 321; of the feelings, 323; in Psychology, for the present must be provisional, 300, 301. Climate, changes in, produced by astronomic rhythm, 356; by re-distributions of land and sea, 359. Comets, formation of, 256; orbits of, 258; distribution of, 259, 261. Common knowledge, nature of, 117; relation of, to science, 118, 122. Comte's hierarchy of the sciences, 131. Consciousness, mystery of, 197. Condensation of nebula, 250. Contrast, its relation to beauty, 432. Creeds suited to the age that holds them, 441, 443. Curtsy, origin of, 79. Densities of the planets, 278-280. Development hypothesis, neither proved nor disproved by Paleontology, 367, 376; defense of, 379.
Direct creation inconceivable, 378; no examples of, 377; origin of the notion, 383. Earth, internal constitution of, 290. Earth's crust, 5; contraction of, 35. Ectoderm social and embryonic, 419. Education, bearing of evolution of science upon, 193. Emotions in animals, genesis of, 315. Emotional language, 232; importance of, 235, 238. Engine, locomotive, results of invention of, 53. Equality, origin of notion of, 152,158; of things and relations, 153. Evolution of the emotions, 311. Evolution of governmental and nervous structures, 420. Fashion, origin of, 90; corruption of, 91. Feeling and action, relation of, 199, 208. Feeling, mystery of, 197; effects of surplus in producing laughter, 201; why it disturbs the intellect, 207. Feeling a stimulus to muscular action, 211, 220; shown in loudness of voice, 215; in quality or timbre, 215; in pitch, 216; in intervals, 217; in variability of pitch, 219; relation of, to vocal sounds in ourselves, 220; in others, 220; causes prostration, 222; classification of the feelings, 323. Feejee islanders, penitent meeting among, 444. Final cause, 262, 272, 275, 293. Fossils as tests of age and position, 339, 347. Function of music, 231-235. Generalizations, premature, use of, 323; as seen in history of Astronomy, 326; in Geology, 327. Genesis of new emotions in civilization, 313; in animals, 315. Geological evidence, value of, 8. Geologic "systems," are they universal? 335-339. Geometry, origin of, 158, 167. God, origin of the conception of, 65. Gothic architecture, source of, 435, 436. Government, rise of, 12, 69, 92; three-fold nature of, 13, 65, 83; separation of civil from religious, 69; early need of severe, 85; progressive amelioration of, 88; course of all, 114; results from national character, 387. Great men, relation of to social changes, 388. Greek and Roman architecture, derivation of, 435.
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