The Science and Philosophy of the Organism

by Hans Driesch

THE
SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY
OF THE ORGANISM

THE GIFFORD LECTURES DELIVERED BEFORE
THE UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN
IN THE YEAR 1907

BY
HANS DRIESCH, Ph.D.
HEIDELBERG

LONDON
ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK
1908

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PREFACE

This work is not a text-book of theoretical biology; it is a systematic presentment of those biological topics which bear upon the true philosophy of nature. The book is written in a decidedly subjective manner, and it seems to me that this is just what “Gifford Lectures” ought to be. They ought never to lose, or even try to lose, their decidedly personal character.