Volume - The Clarence Darrow Collection

Marsh, O. S., scientific activity of, i, 70.
His series of specimens showing the
evolution of the horse, 78, 79, 81.
Cited, 228, note ; 241, note.
Marsham, Sir John, on Egyptian chronology,
i, 255. Cited, 257, note.
Martianus Capella, his suggestion of a
heliocentric theory, i, 121.
Martin, St., curative powers of, ii, 41,44.
Intercession of, in behalf of Naples,
78.
Martin, Henri, cited, i, no, note ; 155,
note; 392, note; ii, 88, note; 156,
note.
Martin, T., cited, i, 132, note; 135,
note; 143, note ; 147, note ; 157, note;
163, note ;
note.
164, note ; 165, note ; 167,
Martindale, cited, ii, 62, note.
von Martins, his conversion to the evolu-
tionary view of man, i, 313.
Mary Alacoque, St., hallucinations of,
ii, 120.
Mary Magdalen, St., relics of, at the
monastery of Le'rins, i, 370.
Mary of Egypt, St., filthiness of, ii, 69.
Masius, his great work on Lot's wife, ii,
243, 244. Its influence, 245. Cited,
245, note.
Mason, John Y., permission granted to
Lieutenant Lynch to explore the Dead
Sea by, ii, 250.
Masoretic texts, belief in their inspira-
tion, ii, 178.
Maspero,
on the artistic merit of the
Sphinx, i, 260. On the change of colour
in the Nile, ii, 375. Cited, i, 3,
note ; 25, note ; 54, note ; 90, note ;
91, note ; 265, note ; 373, notej; 374,
note ; ii, 3, note ; 28, note ; 32, note ;
371, note ; 374, note ; 376, note ; 377,
note.
Massachusetts, Governor of the Province
of, his approval of Cotton Mather's
book on witchcraft, ii, 152.
Massei, cited, ii, 21, note.
Massey, E., on inoculation, ii, 55.
Massey, W., cited, ii, 196, note.
Mastodon, Calmet's theory regarding the,
i, 226.
Mastrofini, Abbate, his attempt to prove
that the Church had never objected to
the taking of moderate interest, ii, 284.
Cited, 283, note ; 285, note.
Materials foi the History of
Becket, cited, ii, 25, note.
Thomas
Mathematics, eff"ect of belief in upon, i, 383.
magic
Mather, Cotton, his acceptance
INDEX.
of the
new astronomy, i, 149, 207. On the
signs of the heavens, 197.
On storms,
443
335. Witch persecution stimulated
by, 361 ; ii, 127. Attack on, for accept-
ing the theory of inoculation, 56, 57.
On the cause of plagues, 85. His liberal
attitude toward science, 146. His
great work on witchcraft, 147. The
part played by him in the Salem witch
persecution, 1 50, 152. His controversy
with Calef, 153. His sorrow over the
decline of the superstition, 154. His
opposition to the theological views of
philology, 187. His argument in favour
of
interest-taking, 277. Cited,
i, 150, note; 197, note; ii, 86, note;
188, note; 277, note.
Mather, Increase, his
eclipses, i, 173, 196.
belief regarding
His sermons on
comets, 194-196; 195, note. His treatise
on comets, ig6. His opinion on
fossils, 227. On storms, 335 ; 363,
note. Witch persecution stimulated
by, 361 ; ii, 127. His acceptance of
the theory of inoculation, 57. His
book on witchcraft, 146. Cited, i, 174,
note ; 196, note ; 228, note ; 335, note ,
363, note.
Mather, Samuel, cited, ii, 188, note.
Matter, non-existence of, before the crea-
tion, i, 4. Early belief in the pre-existence
of, 4. St. Augustine on, 5.
Reisch's belief in, 26.
Matthew, St., medicinal properties of his
relics, ii, 42. Commentator of, on
madness, 112.
Matthew, Gospel of, cited, ii, loi, note.
Matthews, P., on natural selection, i, 65.
Maudsley, cited, ii, 103, note ; 120, note ;
121, note ; 130, note ; 140, note; 144,
note ;
166, note.
Maundrell, Rev. Henry, on the Dead
Sea legends, ii, 242. Cited, 213, note ;
243, note.
Maupertuis, his presentation of an evo-
lutionary doctrine, i, 62.
Maurice, F. D., his desertion of Colenso,
ii, 353-
Maury, cited, i, 175, note; 217, note;
338, note ; 374, note ; 386, note ; ii, 25,
note ; 42, note ; 98, note ; loi, note ;
139, note.
May bugs, excommunication of, ii, 113.
Mayence, Archbishop of, his treatment
of Isenbiehl, ii, 321.
Mazurier, his exhibition of the mastodon's
bones, i, 226, 227.
Mead, on sanitary precautions, ii, 82,
90.
Mecca, as the centre of the earth, i, 98,
Legend of the Caaba at, ii, 217.
Mechlin, Archbishop of, on Copernicus
and his theory, i, 122, note. Grand