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New York Evening Post, cited, ii, 6i,
note.
New York Senate Documents, cited, ii,
95, note.
New York Tribune, cited, ii, 163, note.
Ne'w York Weekly Sun, cited, i, 86, note.
New Zealanders, absence of pottery and
of spinning among, i, 306.
Niagara, as an exhibition of divine caprice,
i, 28. Geological evidence in the
rocks at, 241.
Nicene Creed, conception of creation in
INDEX.
the, i, 10.
Nichol, cited, ii, 58, note.
Nicholas III, Pope, persecution of Roger
Bacon by, i, 389.
Nicholas IV, Pope, persecution of Roger
Bacon by, i, 389.
Nicholas V, Pope, his decretal against
Jewish physicians, ii, 44.
Nicholas I, Czar, his influence in behalf
of scriptural science, i, 269.
Nicholas, Cardinal, his correction of the
text of the Bible, ii, 304.
Nicholas of Cusa. See CusA.
Nicholas, Dr. John, his account of a remarkable
case of the efficacy of king's
touch, ii, 47.
Nider, his book on ants, i, 36.
Niebuhr, his work in historical criticism,
ii, 339. Cited, 341, note.
Nightingale, Florence, her works of
mercy, ii, 4.
Nikon, Patriarch of Moscow, his belief
regarding the signification of comets,
i, 182. Bitter opposition to his revision
of the Slavonic Scriptures, ii, 310.
Nile, gods of the, their creation of man,
i, 25. Production of animal life in its
slime, 52. Investigations
in the bed
of the, 263.
Nile Valley, the antiquity of man in the,
i, 257, 259, 263, 279. Discovery of
prehistoric implements in the, 297-300.
Nilsson, his classification of prehistoric
man, i, 288. Cited, 287, note ; 294,
note ; 302, note ; 308, note ; 309, note.
Nilus, St., on the cause of disease, ii, 27.
Nimr, his expulsion from the American
College at Beyrout, i, 318.
Nineteenth Century, cited, i, 248, note.
Nineveh, origin of the legend regarding
the fall of man found in the records
of, i, 301. Library of Assurbanipal
at, 20.
Niobe, myth of, ii, 215,
blance of, to the story
216. Resem-
of Lot's wife,
227, 257.
Nisard, cited, i, 392, note.
Noah, size of his ark, i, 31. Difficulty
suggested by his having taken the ani-
mals into the ark by sevens, 39. Grow-
ing scepticism regarding the story of,
44. His foreknowledge of the Deluge,
330. Mystic significance of the pitching
of his ark, ii, 299. Signification
of his drunkenness, 299.
Norman conquest, thought to have been
presaged by a comet, i, 176, 177.
North America, difficulty suggested by
the distribution of animals in, i, 45.
North British Review, cited, i, 73,
note.
Notker, of St. Gall, his efforts in belialf
of medicine, ii, 35.
Nourrisson, cited, i. 391, note.
Nouvelle Biographie Gin&ale, cited, ii,
321, note.
Novalis, his characterization of Spinoza,
ii, 318.
Noyes, his activity in the Salem witch
persecution, ii, 152.
Nuber, his weather-sermons, i, 334.
Cited, 334, note.
Numbers, mystic virtues of, i, 6, 7, 395,
396 ; ii, 296, 298, 299.
Numbers, book of, cited, ii, 68, note.
Nunez, Melchior, his attempt to learn of
Xavier's miracles, ii, 12.
Nunneries, epidemics of hysteria in, i
141, 143, 144. 156.
Nuremberg Chronicle, explanation of t
creation in, i, 7. Cited, 8, note ; I2i zofl
note ; ii, 54, note ; 170, note.
Nuremberg medal, ridiculing Copernicus,
i, 128.
Oaks, found in the peat-beds of Denmark,
i, 293. Origin of, ii, 219.
Oannes, the giver of language to the
Chaldeans, ii, 169.
Ober-Ammergau, refusal to allow representation
of Satan in the Passion
Play at, ii, 128.
Oblate Fathers, their hostility to vaccination
in Montreal, ii, 60.
Observations, mistaken, their effect, i,
43-
Occam, William, on the Redemption, i,
397.
Odin, as a minister of Satan, i, 336.
in Eusebius's chro-
CEdipus, his position
nological tables, i, 250.
Og, King of Bashan, his escape from the tne
Deluge, ii, 293.
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Ohio, explorations in the drift in, i, 27
Ohm, his influence on the developmei
of physics, i, 407.
Ointment, sanctified, its efficacy agaii
demoniacal possession, ii, 102.
Oken, his presentation of an evolutionary
doctrine, i, 62.