Volume - The Clarence Darrow Collection

INDEX.
knowledge, 25. Origin of many Christian
dogmas not to be found in, 31.
Hebrew, its influence on the study of
nature, 32. Study of the formation of
the canon of, ii, 388. See also Bible
and Testament.
Scrofula, cure of, by king's touch, ii,
46.
Sculpture, cathedral, its preservation of
theology, i, i, 3, and note, 11, 36. Its
embodiment of the fear of magic, 383.
Of ideas of Satan, ii, 135.
Sculpture in early Egypt, i, 260, 261.
Searle, G. M., cited, i, 88, note.
Sebastian, St., value of his relics, ii, 2g.
Plague caused by the wrath of, 72.
In-
tercession of, against the plague, 87.
Sebillot, cited, ii, 211, note ; 218, note.
Secchi, Father, his pendulum experiment,
i, 157-
Secondary causes, doctrine of, condemned
by the Church, i, 56.
Sedgwick,
denunciation of him as an
infidel, i, 223. His Life and Letters,
cited, 87, note ; 225, note.
See, Prof., attack of theologians on, i,
409, 410.
Seetzen, Ulrich, his investigation into
the Dead Sea myths, ii, 248, 249, 254.
Cited, 254, note.
Segor, signification of the name, ii, 229.
Segor, Bishop of, on the permanence of
Lot's wife, ii, 227.
Seguier, his opposition to the witch persecution,
ii, 123.
Segur, on Darwinism, i, 73, 81. Cited,
77, note.
Self-mutilation, Origen on, ii, 297.
Seinelaigne, cited, ii, 99, note ; 106,
note ; 136, note.
Semler, his attempt at compromise between
scientific and theological views
regarding comets, i, 205.
Seneca, his failure to mention any eclipse
at the time of the crucifixion, i, 173.
His declaration regarding comets, 178,
197, 204. His attempt to explain
storms, 323. On the taking of interest,
ii, 265. Cited, i, 172, note ; 173, note.
Sennacherib, thunderbolts employed to
destroy, i, 333.
Sennert, Andreas, on the divine origin
of Hebrew, ii, 185. Cited, 188, note.
Sens, Council of, its condemnation of
Abelard, ii, 302.
Septuagint, myths regarding, ii, 289, 290.
Seraphim, an order of the first hierarchy
of angels, i, 119.
Sermon on the Mount, alleged condemnation
of usury in, ii, 265.
serpent, reason for the creation of, i, 23.
461
Condition of, before the fall of Adam,
29, 30. Fabulous accounts of, 33. Its
original form, 221. Excommunication
of, ii, 113. Influence on belief in demoniacal
possession of the story of Satan's
entrance into, 113. Region of
the Dead Sea infested by, 237. Mystic
significance of its condemnation' to
eat dust, 2gy.
de Serres, his exploration of caverns in
France, i, 270.
Servetus, his statement of geographical
truth employed against him by Calvin,
i, 112, 113; ii, 237. His edition of
Ptolemy's Geography, i, 113. His edition
of Ptolemy, cited, ii, 237, note.
Settele, Canon, his work on astronomy
accepting the Copernican system, i,
156.
Seven, mystic virtues of the number, i,
6, 50, 396 ; ii, 296, 300.
Seventy-two, mystical theories regarding
the number, i, 396.
Sewall, Justice, his sorrow for having
condemned witches to death, ii, 154.
Shakespeare, on the portent of heavenly
bodies, i, 176, 181. His allusion to
madmen, ii, 129 ; to the taking of
interest, 275. Cited, i, 176, note; ii,
129, note ; 277, note.
Shaler, influence of Agassiz on, i, 69.
Shamanism, a stage in man's religious
development, i, 321.
Sharp, G., cited, ii, 139, note.
Sharpe, S., cited, i, 95, note ; 120, note ;
ii, 3, note ; 376, note.
Sharpe, T., cited, ii, iii, note.
Sheep, description of, among the animals
of Holy Scripture, i, 40.
Shell-heaps of Denmark, remains of prehistoric
man found in, i, 292.
Shetland Isles, epidemic of convulsions
in, ii, 157.
Shew-bread, mystic significance of, i, 94 ;
ii, 294.
Shields, C. W., cited, i, 128, note ; 129,
note ; 148, note ; 210, note ; 234, note ;
237, note ; 243, note.
Shinar, building of the Tower of Babel
on the plain of, ii, 171.
Short's Lexicon, cited, ii, 136, note.
Shrubs, transformation of living beings
into, ii, 2ig.
Shuckford, Dr., on the naming
of the
animals by Adam, ii, 195.
Shunamite damsel, allegorical significance
of, ii, 298.
Shuttleworth, Bishop, his epigram on
Buckland, i, 232.
Siam, imprint of Buddha's feet on stones
in, ii, 211.