Binsfeld, Bishop, on the ringing of bells against storms, i, 349. His activity in the torture of witches, 355. On the reality of confessions extracted by tor- ture, 358. Cited, 350, note; 352, note; 358, note; ii, 75, note. Binz, cited, i, 359, note. Biographie Universelle, cited, ii, 321, note. Biologists, results of their work, i, 49. B.ology, made predictive by Darwin's discoveries, i, 406.
Birds, generation of, i, 26, 33, 37, 51. Birks, on evolution, i, 76. Cited, 77, note. Bitaud, treatment of his scientific trea- tises, i, 214.
Biting, epidemic of, in nunneries, ii, 141. Bitumen, found near the Dead Sea, ii, 221. Legends regarding, 227, 228, 232. Bize, cavern of, human remains found in, i, 270.
Black, his discoveries in chemistry, i, 405. Blackguardism, employment of, to dis- gust Satan's pride, ii, 107.
Black Penitents, their care for the in- sane, ii, 105.
Blackwood's Magazine, cited, ii, 293, note. Blaer, his book on the use of globes, i, 150. Cited, 150, note. Blanqui, cited, ii, 283, note. Blaxton, John, his treatise on the taking
of interest, ii, 275. Cited, 277, note. Bleek, his work in biblical criticism, ii, 328. Cited, 364, note. Blomfield, A., Bishop of Colchester, cited, ii, 394, note.
Blood, medieval medicine for the, ii, 38. Bloodroot, its medicinal properties, ii, 38. Blumenbach, his investigation of fossils,
Boccaccio, cited, ii, 74, note.
Bochart, S., his book on the animals of Holy Scripture, i, 40. Cited, 40,
Böckh, cited, ii, 265, note. Bodies, heavenly, ancient belief that light and darkness are entities independent of, i, 12. Bodin, Jean, on the Copernican theory, i, 140. On the nature of comets, 178, 179. His opposition to the theory of "the Fall," 288. On the nature of thunder, 354. His work in support of witchcraft, 355; ii, 122. Cited, i, 179, note; 355, note.
Boehme, Jacob, his mysticism, i, 398. Boerhaave, his experiments with cases of hysteria, ii, 163, 164. Cited, 53, note, von Bohlen, on the story of Lot's wife. ii, 257 Cited, 257, note. Böhm-Bawerk, cited, ii, 265, note; 273, note; 277, note; 282, note.
de Boismont, cited, ii, 166, note. de Bonald, his attitude toward Galileo, i, 147. His defence of the Church's attitude toward Galileo, 166, 167. His attitude toward comparative ethnol- ogy, 304. His attack on the new phi- lology, ii, 199. Cited, 200, note. Bonaventura, St., his belief in the dia- bolical origin of storms, i, 337. His hostility to Roger Bacon, 387, 388, 389. Cited, 388, note.
Bone, the resurrection, belief regarding, ii, 52.
Bongars, cited, ii, 231, note. Boniface VIII, Pope, his decretal against
separation of the flesh from the bones of the dead, ii, 32, and note; 50. Boniface, St., his denunciation of the theory of the antipodes, i, 105. Re- sult of his efforts to crush scientific thought, 109. Cited, 106, note. de Bonnechose, Cardinal, his attack on higher education in France, i, 409, 410. Bonnet, his development of evolutionary theories, i, 59.
Book of Common Prayer, changes made in, ii, 64.
Books, sacred, conception of creation in, i, 13. Noble purpose of, 20. Early printed, representations of the crea- tion in, 24. Their value, ii, 288. The laws of their development, 288. Man's belief in the perfection and uniqueness of his own sacred books, 289, 290. Boomerang, its use a proof of the unas- sisted development of man, i, 305. Bopp, Franz, his work in philology, ii, 200, 379.
Borchard. See BURCHARD. Bordone, his representation of the be- lief in the diabolical origin of storms, i, 338.
Borelli, his development of Kepler's cometary theory, i, 202. His contri- butions to mathematics, 393. Börs, story of, ii, 216.
Borsippa, Tower of, cause of its ruin, ii,
Boscovich, on the theory of the earth's
motion, i, 155, and note. His casu- istry, ii, 283.
Bosizio, on the Deluge, i, 236. Cited, 236, note.
Bossuet, his views of the creation, i, 12, 27, 30. On the Copernican theory, 154. Proof of the worthlessness of his chronology, 240. His belief in dia- bolic possession, ii, 124. In the di- vine origin of the Hebrew vowel points, 178. His opposition to all heterodoxy, 186. His condemnation
of the taking of interest, 278. His suppression of Simon's works, 319, 320. His interpretation of Solomon's Song, 326. Cited, i, 8, note; 28, note; ii, 124, note; 279, note; 321,
Boston, faith cures at, ii, 45. Cases of diabolic possession in, 146. Botany, work of Albert the Great in, i, 377. Of Vincent of Beauvais, 378. Botta, P. E., his discoveries in Assyria, ii, 370.
Botta, V., cited, i, 118, note.
Brahlsdorf, legend of a rock near, ii, 216. Brahma, representation of, i, II. Tree blasted by, 96. His agency in causing confusion of tongues, ii, 172. Early stories of, 293.
Brahmanism, its influence on early Euro- pean religious ideas, ii, 379. Brahmans, their alleged invention of Sanskrit, ii, 194. Myths among, 210. Their mystic interpretation of the Vedas, 293.
Braid, J., his discoveries in hypnotism, ii, 65. Cited, 166, note.
Bötticher, cited, ii, 214, note; 218, note; Brain, influence of moon on, ii, 38. Early
Boulders, myths inspired by, ii, 210. Bounty, morality of the descendants of the pirate ship, i, 311.
Bourbons, influence of their restoration on education in France, i, 409. On religion, ii, 248.
Bourgeat, cited, i, 28, note; 379, note. Bourgeois, Abbé, his discovery of flints in the Tertiary deposits, i, 282. Bourne, E. G., cited, i, 110, note. Bouterwek, cited, i, 4, note. Bowring, his ridicule of the Anglican Church's attempt to fetter science, i, 150, 411.
Boyer, his introduction of the use of in- oculation against smallpox, ii, 55. Boyle, Charles, his controversy with Bentley over the Letters of Phalaris, ii, 337, 338.
Boyle, Robert, new epoch in chemistry begun by, i, 405. His attempt at com- promise regarding the cause of epi- demics, ii, 88, 89. Cited, 89, note. Boylston, his attempt to introduce the treatment of inoculation in Boston, ii, 56, 57.
Bradstreet, Justice, his resistance to the Salem witch persecution, ii, 153. Brahe, Tycho, his observations of the comet of 1577, i, 184, 201.
theory regarding diseases of, 98. Proof that insanity is a disease of, 127. Bramble, reason for its creation, i, 42. Bramhall, Archbishop, his views regard- ing comets, i, 180. Cited, 180, note. Braun, cited, ii, 215, note. Brazil, work of Darwin in, i, 66. Of Wallace, 67. Portuguese claim to, 108. Civilization among the aborigi- nes of, 307.
Breda, cure of Prince of Orange's soldiers at the siege of, ii, 64.
Bremen, Cathedral of, bodies preserved in, ii, 10, note.
Breviary of the Roman Church, on the evidence of St. Hilarion's sanctity, ii, 69.
Brewer, cited, i, 340, note. Brewster, contemptuous characterization of, i, 406. Cited, 402, note. Breydenbach, Bernhard von, on the won- ders of the Dead Sea, ii, 231, 232. Cited, 233, note.
Bridget, St., hallucinations of, ii, 120. Bridgewater, Earl of, his testamentary
provision for certain treatises on God's goodness, i, 43.
Bridgewater Treatises, their place in the development of sacred science, i, 33. Their importance, 43. Criticism of, 44. Cited, 44, note. Briemle, Vincent, his work on Palestine, ii, 243. Condition in which he found the statue of Lot's wife, 263. Cited, 245, note.
Briggs, C. A., his work in biblical criti- cism, ii, 370. Cited, 313, note; 321, note; 333, note. Brighton, Sanitary Conference at, Chad- wick's address before, ii, 91. Brinton, D. G., cited, i, 275, note; ii, 173,
Bristol, reduction of death rate in, ii, 92. Last case of diabolic possession in, 165. British and Foreign Evangelical Review, cited, i, 77, note; 87, note. British Association for the Advancement
of Science, Bishop Wilberforce's speech | Brux, human skulls discovered at, i, 290. before, i, 70. Hostility toward, 224, | Bruyn, Cornelius, his representations of 406.
British Columbia, prehistoric remains
found in, 1, 279, 280.
British Geological Society, President of the, on the fossils in the coal measures, i, 231.
British Museum, prehistoric engravings in, i, 275, note. Brittany, language, the primitive speech, ii, 191. Explanatory myths in, 211,
216. Imprints on stones in, 212. Brixham, remains of man in the caverns of, i, 276.
Brongniart, his work on fossil plants, i, 231.
Bronze implements, their earliest form among the lake-dwellers, i, 295. Brooklyn, hysteria in, ii, 163. Brooks, Phillips, his account of the Con- vocation of Canterbury, ii, 356, note. Brossier, Martha, her hysterical impos- tures, ii, 141, 142.
Brothers, The Two, the story of Joseph drawn from, ii, 375.
Brown, the Rev. Amos, his ideas em- bodied in the Morrill bill, i, 414. Brown, Francis, his work in biblical crit- icism, ii, 370, 371, 372. Cited, 374,
Brown, John, his account of the cure of king's evil by Charles II, ii, 47. Brown, Dr. Jukes, his discovery of flint instruments in Egypt, i, 298. Brown, J. A., cited, i, 280, note; 281,
Brown, J. Mellor, his denunciation of scientists, i, 65. His denunciation of geologists, 223, 271.
Browne, Sir Thomas, on the Copernican theory, i, 140. On the influence of comets, 181. Cited, 110, note; 140, note; 181, note.
Bruce, cited, i, 177, note, Brugsch, date assigned by him for the reign of Mena, i, 258. On the per- fection of Egyptian art, 260. His op- position to the idea of a Stone age in Egypt, 297. Cited, 264, note; 265, note; 309, note; ii, 3, note. Bruhns, cited, i, 126, note; 152, note. Brunel, Sir I., cited, ii, 286, note. Bruno, Giordano, murder of, for his work in science, i, 15. His attempt to re- vive the current of Greek thought, 57. His martyrdom at Rome, 130, 143. Bruno, St., intercession of, in behalf of Naples, ii, 78.
Brussels, remains of ancient man in the museum at, i, 276.
the fossils of Palestine, ii, 246. Cited, 248, note.
von Buch, his investigation of fossils, i, 230. His theory as to the origin of the story of Lot's wife, ii, 260, note. Buchanan, Morrill bill vetoed by, i, 413. Buchmann, cited, ii, 103, note. Büchner, cited, i, 228, note. Buck, cited, ii, 95, note. Buckland, his essay in the Bridgewater Treatises, i, 43. His attempt to pre- serve the theological theory of crea- tion, 49. Denunciation of him as an infidel, 223. On fossil evidences of the Deluge, 231, 232. On the ancient re- mains of man, 268. His discovery regarding the relics of St. Rosalia, ii, 29.
on stagnation of scientific thought, i, 68. Light thrown by him on man's spiritual evolution, 312. Cited, 105, note; 322, note; ii, 36, note; 81, note; 88, note; 121, note. Buckley, cited, ii, 46, note. Buddeus, an authority on the old theory of philology, ii, 191. Buddha, supernatural announcement of his birth, i, 171. Stone hurled at, ii, 210. Imprint of his feet on stones, 211. Canonization of, 381-383. Strik- ing similarity between the story of his life and that of Christ, 383. Buddhism, similarity between narratives and ideas of, and those of the Bible, ii, 379-384.
Buddhists, myths among, ii, 210. Budé, his attack on Erasmus, ii, 304. Buffon, forced recantation of his views, i, 9, 41, 61, 62. And the Sorbonne, 215. On thunder stones, 268. Bugloss, its medicinal properties, ii, 39. Buisson, cited, ii, 332, note.
Bullarium Romanum, cited, ii, 37, note. Bunsen, on the antiquity of Egyptian civilization, i, 262. The work of, 407. Cited, 172, note.
Bünting, Prof., on the wonders of the Dead Sea, ii, 236. Cited, 237, note. Burchard, Count, on the wonders of the Dead Sea, ii, 229, 230. Cited, 231, note.
Burckhardt, his investigation of the Dead Sea myths, ii, 249. Cited, 271,
Burggraeve, cited, ii, 53, note. Burgon, Dean, on evolution, i, 76. On the inerrancy of the Bible, ii, 369. Cited, 167, note; 348, note.
Burnet, Thomas, on the movement of
the earth, i, 149. His belief regarding comets, 206. His Sacred Theory of the Earth, 218, 219, 227. Burnouf, his work in philology, ii, 379. Cited, 211, note; 213, note. Burns, cited, ii, 96, note.
Burr, E. F., his attack on the theory of evolution, i, 80, 81.
Burr, G. L., discovery of Loos's book by, i, 356, note. Cited, 357, note; ii, 75, note; 78, note.
Burroughs, George, condition of Salem parish after the pastorate of, ii, 147. His conviction and execution witchcraft, 151.
Burton, Henry, cited, ii, 84, note. Burton, J. H., cited, ii, 286, note. Burton, Robert, his allusion to comets, i, 181. Cited, 181, note.
Busaeus, Father, his attitude toward sci- ence, i, 133.
Butler, Bishop, criticism of, i, 44. His logic powerless against the scientific spirit, 49.
Butler, C., cited, ii, 308, note. Büttner, his Comet Hour-Book, i, 185. Cited, 185, note.
Buxtorf, John, the younger, on the divine origin of the Hebrew vowel points, ii, 178. On the sacred charac- ter of Hebrew, 185. Cited, 188, note. Byzantine Empire, development medical science in, ii, 26.
Caaba, black stone of the, at Mecca, le- gend of, ii, 217. Cabanis, cited, ii, 3, note. Caccini, Father, his sermon against mathematicians, i, 133.
Caddo, Michael, torture and execution of, ii, 75.
Cadmon, his influence, i, 4.
Cæsar, Julius, supernatural announce- ment of his death, i, 173. Cæsarius of Heisterbach, his opinion re- garding the earth's centre, i, 99. On thunder and lightning as instruments of divine punishment, 332. His story of a money-lender's punishment, ii, 268. Cited, i, 333, note. Cæsars, supernatural announcement of their births, i, 172.
Caetani, M., his atlas of the cosmology of Dante, i, 118, note. Cahier and Martin, cited, i, 36, note; ii, III, note.
Cairo, museum of Egyptian art in, i, 261. Imprint of Mohammed's feet on stones in, ii, 212.
Caius, Dr., on sanitary precautions, ii, 82, 90.
Cajetan, on the three languages of the inscription on the cross, ii, 180. Calculate, the origin of the word a proof of man's evolution, i, 308. Calculus, medieval cures for, ii, 42. Calef, his influence against belief in witchcraft, i, 362. His discussion of the Salem witchcraft, ii, 128, 153. Popularity of his book, 154. Cited, 152, note.
Calendar, Gregorian, God's wrath against, i, 333.
Calf, monstrous, Luther's interpretation of its signification, ii, 307.
Calf hill, his objection to the baptism of bells, i, 348, note.
Calganini, his presentation of Coperni- cus's theory, i, 124.
Calixt, his views regarding the waters above the firmament, i, 98.
Calixtus III, Pope, his alarm concerning the comet of 1456, i, 177, and note; 204. His decretal against Jewish physicians, ii, 44.
Calmeil, cited, ii, 98, note; 99, note; 106,
note; 120, note; 121, note; 143, note; 156, note.
Calmet, on the origin of species, i, 47. His theory of fossils, 226. On dis- crepancies of testimony regarding Lot's wife's statue, ii, 233, 257. Cited, i, 172, note; 226, note; ii, 257, note. Calovius (or Calov), his denunciation of the Copernican system, i, 147. His activity against witches, ii, 75. Ilis biblical interpretations, 307. Cited, 182, note.
Calthrop, S. R., cited, i, 87, note. Calvary, as the centre of the earth, i, 100. Calves, golden, description of, among
the animals of Holy Scripture, i, 40. Calvin, his views on the creation, i, 8, 26. On the shape of the earth, 97, 98. His attack on Servetus for expressing geo- graphical truths, 113. His condemna- tion of the Copernican theory, 127. His views on demoniacal possession, ii, 115, 116. His charge against Ser- vetus, 237. His belief in the lawful- ness of taking interest, 273. His atti- tude toward biblical criticism, 307. His persecution of Castellio for throw- ing light on Solomon's Song, 325. Cited, i, 10, note; 28, note; ii, 277,
Cambridge, hostility of its clergy to Dr. Priestley, i, 149. Prejudice against scientific study at, 406. Recent prog- ress of biblical research at, ii, 359. Cambridge (Mass.), Agassiz's museum at, i, 694.
Campanella, persecution of him for de- fending Galileo, i, 153. Campbell, J. F., his discovery of pre- historic implements in Egypt, i, 299. Camp meetings, cures wrought at, ii, 24. Insanity and hysteria during, 121, 163. Campanile at Florence, representation of Eve's creation on, ii, 54.
Campo dei Fiori, burning of Bruno on the, i, 15. Campo Santo, representations of the creation on the walls of, i, 3, note. Orcagna's frescoes in, 107. Cana, signification of the waterpots at the marriage of, ii, 297. Canada, conduct of the Catholic clergy during the ship-fever epidemic in, ii,
Canary Islands, work of Dr. Chil y Marango on the, i, 85. Candlesticks, the seven, their significance in the Apocalypse, i, 250. Significa- tion of the golden, ii, 294. Cannstadt, discovery of human bones at, i, 281, 290.
Canon of Scripture, study of the forma- tion of, ii, 388.
Canon law, on medicine, ii, 28. Its condemnation of usury, 266, 269. Cited, 28, note; 32, note; 269, note. Canterbury, value of the relics at, ii, 29. Archbishop of, his skill in medicine, 36. Convocation of, attack on Essays and Reviews by, 344, 346, 347. De- nunciation of inoculation by a rector at, ii, 56.
Cantu, cited, i, 130, note; 132, note; 157, note; 226, note; ii, 78, note. Cape Comorin, alleged miracle of Xavier at, ii, 12, 17.
Cape Verde, Darwin's work at, i, 66. Cape Verde Islands, Pope Julius's line of demarcation reckoned from the, i, 108. Cappella Palatina at Palermo, repre- sentation of the creation in, i, 3, note. Capellini, his discovery of human re- mains in Tertiary deposits, i, 282. Cappellus (or Capellus), his attack on the theory of the divine origin of He- brew, ii, 177, 178. On the errors in biblical manuscripts, 319. Capuchins, their efforts to arouse a belief in demoniacal possession in France, ii,
Carlyle, Thomas, on Darwin, i, 83. Carmelites, mortality among, during plagues, ii, 70.
Carnac, legend of the stones of, ii, 216. Carpenter, on the surrender of theology to science, i, 234. 235. Cited, ii, 121, note; 140, note; 166, note. Carpzov, his activity against witches, i, 359; ii, 75. His attack on Le Clerc, 321.
Caribbean Islands, explanatory myths regarding the pitch lakes of, ii, 214. Caribbee tongue, its alleged similarity to Hebrew, ii, 201.
Cartailhac, cited, i, 269, note; 275, note; 283, note; 294, note; 302, note; 309, note.
Carthusians, mortality among, during the Black Death, ii, 70. Representation of, as interceding for Naples, 78. Cartulaire of the monastery of Lérins, cited, i, 371, note.
Carus, cited, i, 36, note; 217, note. Casaubon, Isaac, cited, by Walton, ii, 188, note.
Casaubon, Meric, belief in witchcraft supported by, i, 361. On Hebrew as the source of all languages, ii, 187. Cited, i, 363, note; ii, 188, note. Caspian Sea, resemblance of, to the Dead Sea, ii, 222.
Cassini, his fear of declaring for the Copernican theory, i, 154. His at- tempt to develop a new cometary theory, 203.
Castelli, Galileo's letter to, i, 132, 136,
159. Forbidden to announce Galileo's discoveries, 133. His defence of Gali- leo, 141. His banishment, 143. His views regarding the nature of Gali- leo's condemnation, 164. Castellio, persecution of, for throwing light on Solomon's Song, ii, 325. Cataclysms, their inconsiderable impor- tance, i, 279.
Catalepsy, epidemic of, in Paris, ii, 155. Catania, imprint of St. Agatha's feet at, ii, 212.
Catechism, its influence on the belief in diabolic activity, ii, 115. Caterpillars, exorcism of, ii, 113. Cathedral sculpture, its preservation of medieval theology, i, I. Representa-
tions of the creation in, I, II. Of the marvels of nature, 36.
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