TABLE OF CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| Translator's Preface | [vii] |
| Author's Preface | [ix] |
| Introduction | [xiii] |
| I. Life and Living Beings | [1] |
| II. Solutions | [14] |
| III. Electrolytic Solutions | [24] |
| IV. Colloids | [36] |
| V. Diffusion and Osmosis | [43] |
| VI. Periodicity | [67] |
| VII. Cohesion and Crystallization | [78] |
| VIII. Karyokinesis | [89] |
| IX. Energetics | [97] |
| X. Synthetic Biology | [113] |
| XI. Osmotic Growth: A Study in Morphogenesis | [123] |
| XII. The Phenomena of Life and Osmotic Productions: A Study in Physiogenesis | [147] |
| XIII. Evolution and Spontaneous Generation | [160] |