Creative Evolution

by Henri Bergson

[109] In a course of lectures on Plotinus, given at the Collège de France in 1897-1898, we tried to bring out these resemblances. They are numerous and impressive. The analogy is continued even in the formulae employed on each side.

[110] "Le Paralogisme psycho-physiologique" (Revue de métaphysique et de morale, Nov. 1904, pp. 895-908). Cf. Matière et mémoire, Paris, 1896, chap. i.

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INDEX

(Compiled by the Translator)

Abolition of everything a self-contradiction, [280], [283], [296], [298]
idea of, [279], [282], [283], [295], [296].
See Nought
Absence of order, [231], [234], [274].
See Disorder
Absolute and freedom, [277]
reality, [99], [228]-9, [269], [358], [361]
reality of the person, [269]
time and the, [239], [240], [298], [340], [344]
Absoluteness of duration, [206]
of understanding, xi, [47], [152], [190], [197], [199]
Abstract becoming, [304]-7
multiplicity, [257]-9
time, [9], [17], [20]-2, [37], [39], [46], [51], [163], [318]-9, [336], [352]-3
Accident and essence in Aristotle's philosophy, [353]
in evolution, [86]-7, [104], [114]-5, [127], [169], [170], [252], [254]-5, [266], [267], [326]-7
Accidental variations, [55], [63], [68], [69], [74], [85]-6, [168]
Accumulation of energy, function of vegetable organisms, [253], [255]
Achilles and tortoise, in Zeno, [311], [312]-3
Acquired characters, inheritance of, [76]-9, [83]-4, [87], [169], [170], [173], [231]
Act, consciousness as inadequacy of, to representation, [144]
form (or essence), quality, three classes of representation, [302]-3
Action, creativeness of free, [192], [247]
and concepts, [160], [297]
and consciousness,[ xiii], [5], [143]-4, [145], [179]-80, [207], [262]
discontinuity of, [154], [307]
freedom of, in animals, [130]
as function of nervous system, [262]-3
indivisibility of, [94], [95], [308]-9
and inert matter, [96], [136], [141]-2, [156], [187], [198], [226], [366]
instinct and, [136], [141]
instrument of, consciousness, [180]
instrument of, life, [162]
instrument of matter, [161], [198]-9
as instrument of consciousness, [180]
and intellect. See Intellect and action
intensity of consciousness varies with ratio of possible, to real, [145]
meaning of, [301]-3
moves from want to fulness, [297], [298]
organism a machine for, [252], [254], [300]
and perception, [5], [11], [12], [93], [188], [189], [206], [227]-30, [300], [307], [368]
possible, [12], [13], [96], [144], [145], [146]-7, [159], [165], [179]-81, [188], [264]
and science, [93], [195]-6, [198]-9, [329]-30
and space, [203]
sphere of the intellect, [155]
tension in a free, [200], [207], [238], [240], [301]-2
Activity, dissatisfaction the starting-point of, [297]
of instinct, continuous with vital process, [139], [140]
life as, [128]-9, [247]
mutually inverse factors in vital, [248]
and nervous system, [110], [130], [132]-3, [134]-5, [180], [252], [261]-3
organism as, [174]
potential. See Action, possible
tension of free, [200], [202], [207]-8, [223]-4, [237], [239], [300]-1
and torpor in evolution, [109], [111], [113], [114], [119]-20, [129]-30, [135]-6, [181], [292]
vital, has evolved divergently, [134]
See Divergent lines of evolution
Adaptation, [50]-1, [55], [57]-8, [59], [70], [101], [129], [133], [192], [255], [270], [305]-6
and causation, [102]
mutual, between materiality and intellectuality, [187], [206]-7
and progress, [101]-2
Adequate and inadequate in Spinoza, [353]
Adjectives, substantives and verbs, [303]-4, [315]
Aesthetics and philosophy, [177]
Affection, Role of, in the idea of chance, [234]
in the idea of nought, [281]-3, [289], [293], [295], [296]
in negation, [286]-7
Affirmation and negation, [285]-6, [293]
[Age and individuality], [15]-6
Albuminoid substances, [121]-2
Alciope, [96]
Alexandrian philosophy, [322], [323]
Algae in illustration of probable consciousness in vegetable forms, [112]
Alimentation, [113]-4, [117], [247]
Allegory of the Cave, [191]
Alternations of increase and decrease of mutability of the universe, [245]-6
Alveolar froth, [33]-4
Ambiguity of the idea of "generality" in philosophy, [230]-1, [320]-1
of primitive organisms, [99], [112], [113], [129]-30
Ammophila hirsuta, paralyzing instinct in, [173]
Amoeba, in illustration of imitation of the living by the unorganized, [33]-6
in illustration of the ambiguity of primitive organisms, [99]
in illustration of the mobility characteristic of animals, [108]
in illustration of the "explosive" expenditure of energy characteristic of animals, [120], [253]
Anagenesis, [34]
Anarchy, idea of, [233], [234].
See Disorder
Anatomy, comparative, and transformism, [25]
[Ancient philosophy], Achilles and tortoise, [311]-2
Alexandrian philosophy, [322]-3
Allegory of the Cave, [191]
Anima (De), [322] note
Apogee of sensible object, [344], [345], [349]
Archimedes, [343]-4
Aristotle, [135], [174]-5, [227]-8, [314], [316], [321], [323], [324], [328]-33, [347], [349], [353], [356], [370]
Arrow of Zeno, [308]-13
ascent toward God, in Aristotle, [323]
Astronomy, ancient and modern, [334]-6
attraction and impulsion in, [323]-4
becoming in, [313]-4, [317]
bow and indivisibility of motion, [308]-9
Caelo (De), of Aristotle, [322] note, [324] note
and Cartesian geometry, [334]-5
causality in, [323], [325]-6
change in, [313]-4, [317], [328]-9, [342]-3
cinematographical nature of, [315]
circularity of God's thought, [323]-4
concentric spheres, [328]
concepts, [326]-7, [356]
"conversion" and "procession" in, [323]
degradation of ideas into sensible flux, [317]-8, [321], [323]-4, [327], [328], [343]-5, [352]-3
degrees of reality, [323]-4, [327]
diminution, derivation of becoming by. See Degradation of Ideas, etc.
duration, [317]-9 note, [323]-4, [327]-9
Eleatic philosophy, [308], [314]
Enneads of Plotinus, [210] note
essence and accident, [354]
essence or form, [314]-5
eternal, [317]-8, [324]-6
Eternity, [317]-8, [320], [324], [328]-9
extension, [210] note, [318], [324], [327]
form or idea, [314]-20, [322], [327], [329]-31, [352]
geometry, Cartesian, and ancient philosophy, [334]
God of Aristotle, [196]-7, [322]-4, [349], [352], [356]
υλη, [353]
Idea, [314]-22, [352]-3
and indivisibility of motion, [307]-8, [311]
intelligible reality in, [326]
intelligibles of Plotinus, [353]
λσγος, of Plotinus, [210] note
matter in Aristotle's philosophy, [316], [327]
and modern astronomy, [333]-4, [335]
and modern geometry, [333]-4
and modern philosophy, [226]-7, [228]-9, [232], [281]-2, [344]-5, [346], [349]-51, [364], [369]
and modern science, [329]-30, [336], [342]-3, [344]-5, [357]
motion in, [307]-8, [312]-3
necessity in, [327]
νοησεως νοησις, [356]
non-being, [316], [327]
νους ποιητικος, [322]
oscillation about being, sensible reality as, [317]-8
Physics of Aristotle, [227]-8 note, [324] note, [330]-1
Plato, [48], [156], [191], [210] note, [316]-8, [321]-4, [327], [330], [348], [349]
Plotinus, [210], [316], [323], [326] note, [349], [352]-4
procession in Alexandrian philosophy, [323]
ψνχη, [210] note, [350]
realism in, [232]
refraction of idea through matter or non-being, [317]
sectioning of becoming, [318]-9
sensible reality, [314], [316]-8, [321], [327]-9, [352]-3
σωμα, [350]
space and time, [317]-9, [320]
Timaeus, [318] note
time in ancient and in modern science, [330]-1, [336]-7, [341]-4
time and space, [317]-9, [320]
vision of God in Alexandrian philosophy, [322]
Zeno, [308], [313]
Ancient science and modern, [329]-31, [336]-7, [342]-5, [357]
Anima (De), of Aristotle, [322] note
Animal kingdom, [12], [105]-6, [119]-21, [126], [129], [131]-2, [134]-6, [137]-8, [139], [179], [184]-5
Animals, [105]-47, [167], [170], [181], [183], [187], [212], [214], [246], [252], [253], [254], [262]-5, [267], [271], [293], [301]
deduction in, [212]
induction in, [214]
and man, [139]-43, [183], [187], [188], [212], [263], [264], [267]
and man in respect to brain, [183], [184]-5, [263]-5
and man in respect to consciousness, [139]-43, [180], [183], [187], [188], [192], [212], [263]-8
and man in respect to instruments of action, [139]-43, [150]-1
and man in respect to intelligence, [137]-8, [187], [188], [191]-2, [212]
and plants, [105]-39, [124]-6, [143], [145], [146]-7, [168]-70, [181]-2, [253], [254], [293]
and plants in respect to activity of consciousness, [109], [111], [113], [119]-21, [128]-9, [132], 134-6, [142]-3, 144, [181]-2, [293]
and plants in respect to function, 117-8, [121]-2, [127]
and plants in respect to instinct, [167], [170]
and plants in respect to mobility, [109], [110], [113], [129]-30, [132]-3, [135], [181]
and plants in respect to nature of consciousness, [134]-5
Antagonistic currents of the vital impetus, [129], [135]-6, [181], [184], [250], [258]-9
Anthophora, [146]-7
Antinomies of Kant, [204], [205]
Antipathy. See Sympathy, Feeling, Divination
Antithesis and thesis, [205]
Ants, [101], [134], [140], [157]
Ape's brain and consciousness contrasted with man's, [263]
Aphasia, [181]
Apidae, social instinct in the, [171]
Apogee of instinct in the hymenoptera and of intelligence in man, [174]-5
See Evolutionary superiority
Apogee of sensible object, in philosophy of Ideas, [343]-4, [349]
Approximateness of the knowledge of matter, [206]-7
Approximation, in matter, to the mathematical order, [218].
See Order
Archimedes, [333]-4
Aristotle. See Ancient Philosophy, Aristotle
Arrow, Flying, of Zeno, [308]-9, [310], [312]-3
Art, [6]-7, [29] note, [45], [89], [177]
Artemia Salina, transformations of, [72], [73]
Arthropods in evolution, [130]-5, [142]
Articulate species, [133]
Articulations of matter relative to action, [156], [367]
of motion, [310]-1
of real time, [332]-3
Artificial, how far scientific knowledge is, [197], [218]-9
instruments, [138], [139], [140]-1
Artist, in illustration of the creativeness of duration, [340]-1
Ascending cosmic movement, [11], [208], [275], [369]
Ascent toward God, in Aristotle, [323]
Association of organisms, [260].
See Individuation
universal oscillation between association and individuation, [259], [260].
See Societies
Astronomy and deduction, [213]
and the inert order, [224]
modern, in reference to ancient science, [334]-6
Atmosphere of spatiality bathing intelligence, [204]
Atom, [240], [254], [255]
as an intellectual view of matter, [203], [250]
and interpenetration, [207]
Attack and defence in evolution, [131]-2
Attention, [2], [148]-9, [154], [184], [209]
discontinuity of, [2]
in man and in lower animals, [184].
See Tension and instinct, Tension as inverted extension, Tension of personality, Sympathetic appreciation, etc., Relaxation
and intellect
Attraction and impulsion in Greek philosophy, [323], [324]
Attribute and subject, [148]

Automatic activity, [145]
as instrument of voluntary, [252]
order, [224], [231]-4.
See Negative movement, etc., Geometrical order
Automatism, [127], [143]-4, [174], [223]-4, [261], [264]
Background of instinct and intelligence, consciousness as, [186]
Backward-looking attitude of the intellect, [47], [48], [237]
Baldwin, J.M., [27] note
Ballast of intelligence, [152], [230], [239], [369]-70
Bastian, [212] note
Bateson, [63]
Becoming, [164], [236], [248]-9, [273], [299]-304, [307]-8, [313]-4, [316], [337]-8, [342]-3, [345], [363]
in ancient philosophy, [313]-4, [317]
in Descartes's philosophy, [346]
in Eleatic philosophy, [313]-4, [315]
in general, or abstract becoming, [304], [306]-7
instantaneous and static views of, [272], [304]-5
states of, falsely so called, [164], [247]-8, [273], [298]-301, [307]-8
in the successors of Kant, [363].
See Change, New, Duration, Time, Views of reality
Bees, [101], [140], [142], [146], [166], [172]
Beethoven, [224]
Berthold, [34] note
Bethe, [176] note
Bifurcations of tendency, [54].
See Divergent lines of evolution
Biology, [12], [25], [26], [31]-2, [43], [168]-9, [174]-5, [194]-6
evolutionist, [168]-9
and philosophy, [43], [194]-6
and physico-chemistry, [26]
Blaringhem, [85]
Bodies, [156], [188], [189], [300]-1, [360].
See Inert matter as a relaxation of the unextended into the extended
defined as bundles of qualities, [349]
Bois-Reymond (Du), [38]
Boltzmann, [245]
Bombines, social instincts in, [171]
Bouvier, [142] note
Bow, strain of, illustrating indivisibility of motion, [308]-10
Brain and consciousness, [5], [109], 110, [179]-80, [183]-4, [212] note, [252], [261]-4, [270], [354], [356], [366].
See Nervous System in man and lower animals, [183], [184], [263]-5
Brandt, [66] note
Breast-Plate, in reference to animal mobility, [130], [131].
See Carapace, Cellulose envelope
Brown-Séquard, [80]-2
Bulb, medullary, in the development of the nervous system, [110], [252]
Busquet, [259] note
Bütschli, [33] note
Buttel-Reepen, [171] note
Butterflies, in illustration of variation from evolutionary type, [72]
Caelo (De), of Aristotle, [322] note, [324] note
Calcareous sheath, in reference to animal mobility, [130]-1
Calkins, [16] note
Canal, in illustration of the relation of function and structure, [93]
Canalization, in illustration of the function of animal organisms, [93], [95], [110], [126], [256], [270]
Canvas, embroidering "something" on the, of "nothing," [297]
Caprice, an attribute not of freedom but of mechanism, [47]
Carapace, in reference to animal mobility, [130]-1
Carbohydrates, in reference to the function of the animal organism, [121]-2
Carbon, in reference to the function of organisms, [107], [113], [114], [117], [254], [255]
Carbonic acid, in reference to the function of organisms, [254], [255]
Carnot, [243], [246], [256]
Cartesian geometry, compared with ancient, [334]
Cartesianism, [345], [356], [358]
Cartesians, [358].
See Spinoza, Leibniz
Carving, the, of matter by intellect, [155]
Categorical propositions, characteristic of instinctive knowledge, [149]-50
Categories, conceptual,[ x],[ xiii], [48], [147], [148]-9, [165], [189]-90, [195]-7, [207], [220]-1, [257]-60, [265], [358], [361].
See Concept deduction of, and genesis of the intellect, [196], [207], [359].
See Genesis of matter and of the intellect
innate, [147], [148]-9
misfit for the vital,[ x],[ xiii], [48], [165], [195]-9, [220]-1, [257]-9
in reference to the adaptation to each other of the matter and form of knowledge, [361]
Cats, in illustration of the law of correlation, [67]
Causal relation in Aristotle, [325]
between consciousness and movement, [111]
in Greek philosophy, [324]-5
Causality, mechanical, a category which does not apply to life, [x],[ xiv], [177]
in the philosophy of Ideas, [323]-6
Causation and adaptation, [101], [102]
final, involves mechanical, [44]
Cause and effect as mathematical functions of each other, [20], [21]
efficient, [238], [277], [323]
efficient, in Aristotle's philosophy, [324]
efficient, in Leibniz's philosophy, [353]
final, [40], [44], [238]
final, in Aristotle's philosophy, [324]
by impulsion, release and unwinding, [73]
mechanical, as containing effect, [14], [233], [269]
in the vital order, [95], [164]
Cave, Plato's allegory of the, [191]
Cell, [16], [24], [33], [162], [166], [167], [260], [269]
as artificial construct, [162]
in the "colonial theory," [260]
division, [16], [24], [33]
instinct in the, [166], [167]
in relation to the soul, [269]
Cellulose envelope in reference to vegetable immobility and torpor, [108], [111], [130]
Cerebral activity and consciousness, [5], [109]-10, [180]-1, [183]-4, [212] note, [252], [253], [261], [264], [268], [270], [350], [351], [354], [355], [366]
mechanism, [5], [252], [253], [262], [264], [366]
Cerebro-spinal system, [124].
See Nervous system
Certainty of induction, [215], [216]
Chance analogous to disorder, [233], [234].
See Affection
in evolution, [86]-7, [104], [114]-5, [126], [169]-70, [171], [252], [254], [255], [266], [267], [326]-7.
See Indetermination
Change, [1], [7]-8, [18], [85]-6, [248], [275], [294], [300]-304, [308], [313]-4, [317], [326], [328]-9, [343]-4, [344]-5
in ancient philosophy, [313]-4, [316]-7, [325]-6, [327]-9, [343], [345]
in Eleatic philosophy, [314]
known only from within, [307]-8
Chaos, [232].
See Disorder
Character, moral, [5], [99]-100
Charrin, [81] note
Chemistry, [27], [34]-6, [55], [72], [74], [98], [194], [226], [256], [260]
Child, intelligence in, [147]-8
adolescence of, in illustration of evolutionary becoming, [311]-3
Chipped stone, in paleontology, [139]
Chlorophyllian function, [107]-9, [114], [117], [246], [253]
Choice, [110], [125], [143]-5, [179], [180], [252], [260]-4, [276], [366]
and consciousness, [110], [179], [260]-4
Chrysalis, [114] note
Cinematograph, [306]-7, [339]-40
Cinematographical character of ancient philosophy, [315]-6
of intellectual knowledge, [306], [307], [312]-8, [323]-4, [331]-3, [346]
of language, [306]-7, [312]-5
of modern science, [329]-31, [336]-7, [341]-3, [345], [346], [347]
Circle of the given, broken by action, [192], [247]
logical and physical, 277
vicious, in intellectualist philosophy, [193], [197], [320]
vicious, in the intuitional method is only apparent, [192], [193]
Circularity of God's thought in Aristotle's philosophy, [324]
of each special evolution, [128]
Circulation, protoplasmic, imitated, [32]-3
in plants and animals, [108]
Circumstances in the determination of evolution, [101]-2, [128]-9, [133], [138], [142], [150]-1, [167], [168], [170]-1, [193], [194], [252], [256]
in relation to special instincts, [138], [168], [193]
Classes of words corresponding to the three kinds of representation, [303]-4
Clausius, [243]
Clearness characteristic of intellect, [160]
Cleft between the organized and the unorganized, [190], [196]-9
Climbing plants, instincts of, [170] note
Coincidence of matter with space as in Kant, [206], [207], [244]
of mind with intellect as in Kant, [48], [206]
of qualities, [216]
of seeing and willing, [237]
of self with self, definition of the feeling of duration, [199]-200
Coleopter, instinct in, [146]
Colonial theory, [259], [260]
Colonies, microbial, [259]
Color variation in lizards, [72], [74]
Coming and going of the mind between the without and the within gives rise to the idea of "Nothing," [279]
between nature and mind, the true method of philosophy, [239]
Common-sense, [29], [153], [161], [213], [224], [277]
defined as continuous experience of the real, [213]
Comparison of ancient philosophy with modern, [226], [228]-9, [232], [328]-9, [345]-6, [349]-51, [353]-4, [356]
Compenetration, [352]-3.
See Interpenetration
Complementarity of forms evolved, xii, xiii, [51], [101], [103], [113], [116]-7, [135], [136], [254], [255]
of instinct and intelligence, [146], [173].
See Opposition of Instinct and Intelligence
of intuition and intellect, [343], [345]
in the powers of life, [49], [96]-7, [140]-3, [177], [178]-9, [183]-5, [239], [246], [254], [343]
of science and metaphysics, [344]
Complexity of the order of mathematics, [208]-10, [217], [251]
Compound reflex, instinct as a, [174]
Concentration, intellect as, [191], [301]
of personality, [198]-9, [201]
Concentric spheres in Aristotle's philosophy, [328]
Concept accessory to action,[ ix]
analogy of, with the solid body, [ix]
in animals, [187]
externality of, [160], [168], [175]-8, [199]-200, [251], [306], [311], [314]
fringed about with intuition, [46]
and image distinguished, [160], [279]
impotent to grasp life, [ix]-xiii, [49]
intellect the concept-making faculty, vi, [49]
misfit for the vital, [48]
representation of the act by which the intellect is fixed on things, [161]
synthesis of, in ancient philosophy, [325]-6, [356].
See Categories, Externality, Frames, Image, Space, Symbol
Conditions, external, in evolution, [128]-9, [133], [138], [141]-2, [150]-1, [166]-7, [168], [170], [193], [194], [251], [256], [257]
external, in determination of special instinct, [141]-2, [150]-1, [167], [168], [171]
Conduct, mechanism and finality in the evolution of, [47].
See Freedom, Determination, Indetermination
Confused plurality of life, [257]
Conjugation of Infusoria, [16]
Consciousness and action, ix, [5], [144], [145], [179]-80, [207], [260]-1
consciousness as appendage to action, [ix]
consciousness as arithmetical difference between possible and real activity, [145]
consciousness as auxiliary to action, [179]-80
consciousness as inadequacy of act to representation, [144]
consciousness as instrument of action, [180]
consciousness as interval between possible and real action, [145], [179]
consciousness as light from zone of possible actions surrounding the real act, [179]
consciousness and locomotion, [262]
consciousness plugged up by action, [144], [145].
See Torpor, Sleep
consciousness as sketch of action, [207]
intensity of, varies with ratio of possible to real action, [145]
Consciousness in animals, as distinguished from the consciousness of plants, [130], [135]-6, [143]
as distinguished from the consciousness of man, [139]-43, [180], [183], [184], [187], [188], [212], [263]-9.
See Torpor, Sleep
characteristic of animals, torpor of plants, [109], [111], [113], [120], [128]-9, [135]-6, [181], [182], [292]
as background of instinct and intelligence, [186]
and brain, [180], [262], [263], [269], [270], [354]
and choice, [110], [144]-5, [179], [262]-4
coextensive with universal life, [186], [270]
and creation, consciousness as demand for creation, [261]
current of, penetrating matter, [181], [270]
as deficiency of instinct, [145]

in dog and man, [180]
double form of, [179]
function of, [207]
as hesitation or choice, [143], [144]
imprisonment of, [180], [183]-4, [264]
as invention and freedom, [264], [270]
in man as distinguished from, in lower forms of life, [180], [263], [264], [267], [268]
and matter, [179], [181]-2
as motive principle of evolution, [181]-2
nullified, as distinguished from the absence of consciousness, [143]
and the organism, [270]
in plants, [131], [135]-6, [143]
as world principle, [237], [261]
Conservation of energy, [243], [244]
[ Construction], [139]-42, [150]-1, [156], [157]-8, [180], [182].
See Manufacture, Solid
the characteristic work of intellect, [163]-4
as the method of Kant's successors, [364]-5
Contingency, [96], [255], [268].
See Accident, Chance the, of order, [231], [235]
Continuation of vital process in instinct, [138], [139], [166], [167], [246].
See Variations, Vital process
Continuity, [1], [26], [29]-30, [37], [138]-40, [154], [162]-4, [258], [302], [306]-7, [311]-2, [321], [325]-6, [329]-30, [347]
of becoming, [306]-7, [312]
of change, [325]-6
of evolution, [18], [19]
of extension, [154]
of germinative plasma, [26], [37]
of instinct with vital process, [139], [140], [166]-7, [246]
of life, [1]-11, [29], [163]-4, [258]
of living substance, [162]
of psychic life, [1], [30]
of the real, [302], [329]-30
of sensible intuition with ultra-intellectual, [361]
of sensible universe, [346]
Conventionality of science, [207]
"Conversion" and "procession" in Alexandrian philosophy, [323]
Cook, Plato's comparison of the, and the dialectician, [156]
Cope, [35] note, [77], [111]
Correlation, law of, [66], [67]
Correspondence between mind and matter in Spencer, [368].
See Simultaneity
Cortical mechanism, [252], [253], [262].
See Cerebral mechanism
Cosmogony and genesis of matter, [188].
See Genesis of matter and of intellect, Spencer
Cosmology the, that follows from the philosophy of Ideas, [315], [328]
as reversed psychology, [208]
Counterweight representation as, to action, [145]
Counting simultaneities, the measurement of time is, [338], [341]-2
Creation, [xi], [7], [11], [12], [22], [29], [30], [45], [93], [100], [101], [103], [105], [108], [114], [128]-31, [161], [163]-4, [178], [200], [217], [218], [223], [226], [230], [237]-40, [261], [270], [275], [339]-40
in Descartes's philosophy, [345]
of intellect, [248]-9
of matter, [237], [239], [247]-8, [249].
See Materiality the inversion of spirituality
of present by past, [5], 20-3, [27], [167], [199]-202
the vital order as, [230]
Creative evolution, [7], [15], [21], [27], [29], [36], [37], [65], [100], [104]-5, [161], [163], [223]-4, [230]-1, [237], [264], [269]
Creativeness of free action, [192], [243]
of invention, [250]
Creeping plants in illustration of vegetable mobility, [108]
Cricket victim of paralyzing instinct of sphex, [172]
Criterion, quest of a, [53] ff.
of evolutionary rank, [133], [265]
Criticism, Kantian, [205], [287] note, [356], [360]-2
of knowledge, [194]-5
Cross-cuts through becoming by intellect, [314].
See Views of reality
through matter by perception, [206]
Cross-roads of vital tendency, [51], [52], [54], [110], [126]
Crustacea, [19], [111], [129]-30
Crystal illustrating (by contrast) individuation, [12]
Cuénot, [79] note
Culminating points of evolutionary progress, [50], [133]-5.
See Evolutionary superiority
Current, [26], [27], [51], [185], [236], [237], [250], [266], [269]
Currents, antagonistic, [250]
of existence, [185]
of life penetrating matter, [26], [27], [266], [270]
vital, [26], [27], [51], [237], [266], [270]
of will penetrating matter, [237]
Curves, as symbol of life, [32], [90], [213]
Cuts through becoming by the intellect, [313]-4.
See Views of reality, Snapshots in illustration, etc.
through matter by perception, [206]
Cuvier, [125] note
Dantec (Le), [18] note, [34] note
Darwin, [62]-5, [66], [72], [108], [170] note
Darwinism, [56], [85], [86]
Dastre, [36] note
Dead, the, is the object of intellect, [165]
Dead-locks in speculation, [155], [312]
Death, [246] note, [271]
Declivity descended by matter, [208], [246], [256], [339]-40.
See Descending movement
Decomposing and recomposing powers characteristic of intellect, [157], [251]
Deduction, analogy between, related to moral sphere and tangent to curve, [213]
and astronomy, [213]
duration refractory to, [213]
geometry the ideal limit of, [213]-26, [361]
in animals, [212]
inverse to positive spiritual effort, [212]
nature of, [211]
physics and, [213]
weakness of, in psychology and moral science, [213]
Defence and attack in evolution, [132]
Deficiency of will the negative condition of mathematical order and complexity, [209]
Definition in the realm of life, [13], [105], [106]
Degenerates, [133]-5
Dégénérescence sénile (La), by Metchnikoff, [18] note
Degradation of energy, [241], [242], [246]
of the extra-spatial into the spatial, [207]
of the ideas into the sensible flux in ancient philosophy, [317]-9, [324]-5, [327]-9, [331], [343], [345], [352]-3
Degrees of being in the successors of Kant, [362]-3
Degrees of reality in Greek philosophy, [324], [327]
Delage, [59] note, [81] note, [260] note
Delamare, [81] note
Deliberation, [144]
De Manacéine, [124] note
Deposit, instinct and intelligence as deposits, emanations, issues, or aspects of life, [x],[ xii], [xiii], [49], [103], [105], [136], [365]
De Saporta, [107] note
Descartes, [280], [334], [345], [346], [353], [358]
becoming, [345]-6
creation, [346]
determinism, [345]
duration, [346]
freedom, [345], [346]
geometry, [334]
God, [346]
image and idea or concept, [281]
indeterminism, [345]
mechanism, [345], [346]
motion, [346]
vacillation between abstract time and real duration, [345]
Descending movement of existence, [11], [202], [203], [208], [271], [275], [369]
Design, motionless, of action the object of intellect, [154]-5, [299], [301]-2, [303]
Detention in the dream state, [202]
of intuition in intellect, [238]
Determination, [76]-7, [129]-30, [223], [246]
Determinism, [217], [264], [345], [348]. See Inert matter, Geometry in Descartes, [345]
Development, [133], [134]-5, [141].
See Order, Progress, Evolution, Superiority
Deviation from type, [82]-4
Dialect and intuition in philosophy, [238]
Dichotomy of the real in modern philosophy, [350]
Differentiation of parts in an organism, [253], [260]
Dilemma of any systematic metaphysics, [195], [197], [230]
Diminution, derivation of becoming from being by, in ancient philosophy, [316], [317], [322], [323]-4, [327]-8, [343]-5, [352]
geometrical order as, or lower complication of the vital order, [236]
Dionaea illustrating certain animal characteristics in plants, [107], [108], [109]
Discontinuity of action, [154], [306]-7
of attention, [2]
of extension relative to action, [154], [163]
of knowledge, [306]
of living substance, [163]
a positive idea, [154]
Discontinuous the object of intellect, [154]
Discord in nature, [127], [128], [254]-5, [267]
Disorder, [40], [104], [222]-3, [225]-6, [232]-5, [274].
See Expectation, Order, mathematical, Orders of reality, two
Disproportion between an invention and its consequences, [182]
Dissociation as a cosmic principle opposed to association, [260]
of tendencies, [54], [89], [135], [254], [255], [257], [258].
See Divergent lines of evolution
Distance, extension as the, between what is and what ought to be, [318]-9, [327]-8, [331]
Distinct multiplicity in the dream state, [201], [210]
of the inert, [257]
Distinctness characteristic of the intellect, [160], [237], [251]
characteristic of perception, [227], [251]
as spatiality, [203], [207]-8, [244], [250]
Divergent lines of evolution, [xii], [54], [55], [87], [97]-101, [103]-4, [106], [107], [109], [112], [113], [116], [119], [130], [132], [134]-5, [142], [149], [150], [168], [173], [181], [254], [255], [266], [267].
See Dissociation of tendencies, Complementarity, etc., Schisms in the primitive impulsion of life
Diversity, sensible, [205], [220]-1, [231], [235], [236]
Divination, instinct as, [176].
See Sympathy, etc.
Divisibility of extension, [154], [162]
Division as function of intellect, [152], [154], [162]-3, [189]
of labor, [99], [110], [118], [157], [166], [260]
of labor in cells, [166]
Dog and man, consciousness in, [180]
Dogmatism of the ancient epistemology contrasted with the relativism of the modern, [230]
of Leibniz and Spinoza, [356]-7
skepticism, and relativism, [196]-7, [230]
Dogs and the law of correlation, [66]
Domestication of animals and heredity, [80]
Dominants of Reinke, [42] note
Dorfmeister, [72]
Dream, [144], [180]-1, [202], [209], [256].
See Interpenetration, Relaxation, Detention, Recollection
as relaxation, [202]
Driesch, [42] note
Drosera, [107], [108], [109]
Dufourt, [124] note
Duhem, [242] note
Dunan, Ch., xv note
Duration,[ xiv] note, [2], [4]-6, [8]-11, [15], [17], [21], [22], [37], [39], [46], [51], [199], [201], [206], [213], [216], [240], [272], [273], [276], [298]-9, [308]-9, [317]-8, [319] note, [324], [328], [332], [339], [342], [343], [345], [354], [361], [363]-4
absoluteness of, [206]
and deduction, [213]
in Descartes's philosophy, [346]
gnawing of, [4], [8], [46]
indivisibility of, [6], 308-9
and induction, [216]
and the inert, [343]-4
in the philosophy of the Ideas, [316]-7, [319] note, [324], [327], [328]-9
rhythm of, [11], [128], [346].
See Creation, Evolution, Invention, Time, Unforeseeableness, Uniqueness
Echinoderms in reference to animal mobility, [130], [131]
Efficient cause in conception of chance, [234]
Spinoza and, [269]
Effort in evolution, [170]
Ειδος, [314]-5
Eimer, [55], [72], [73],

[86]
Elaborateness of the mathematical order, [208]-10, [217], [251]
Eleatic philosophy, [308], [314]-5
Emanation, logical thought an, issue, aspect or deposit of life, [ix], [xii], [xiii], [49]
Embroidering "something" on the canvas of "nothing," [297]
Embroidery by descendants on the canvas handed down by ancestors, [23]
Embryo, [18], [19], [26], [27], [75], [81], [89], [101], [166]
Embryogeny, comparative, and transformism, [25]
Embryonic life, [27], [166]
Empirical study of evolution the centre of the theory of knowledge and of the theory of life, [178]
theories of knowledge, [205]
Empty, thinking the full by means of the empty, [273]-4
End in Eleatic philosophy, [314]-5
of science is practical utility, [329]
Energy, [115]-7, [120]-3, [242], [243], [245], [246], [252]-5, [256], [257], [262]
conservation of, [242]
degradation of, [242], [243], [246]
solar, stored by plants, released by animals, [245], [254]
Enneadae of Plotinus, [210] note
Entelechy of Driesch, [42] note
Entropy, [243]
Environment in evolution, [129], [133], [138], [140], [142], [150], [167], [168], [170], [192], [193], [252], [256], [257]
and special instincts, [138], [168], [192], [193]
Epiphenomenalism, [262]
Essence and accidents in Aristotle's philosophy, [353]
or form in Eleatic philosophy, [314]-5
the meaning of, [302]-3
Essences (or forms), qualities and acts, the three kinds of representation, [303]-4
Eternity, [39], [298], [314], [317], [320], [324], [328], [346], [352], [354]
in the philosophy of Ideas, [316]-7, [319], [324], [328]
in Spinoza's philosophy, [353]
Euglena, [116]
Evellin, [311] note
Eventual actions, [11], [96].
See Possible activity
Evolution, [ix]-xv, [18], [20], [22], [24], [25], [26]-7, [37], [46]-55, [63], [68], [79] note, [84]-8, [97]-105, [107], [113], [116], [126], [127], [129]-30, [131]-2, [133], [134], [136], [138]-40, [141]-2, [143], [161], [166], [167], [168]-72, [173], [174], [175], [179], [181], [182], [185], [186], [190], [193], [198]-9, [207]-8, [224], [231], [242] note, [246], [248], [249], [251], [252], [254], [264]-6, [268], [273], [302], [311], [345], [359], [360], [366]
accident in, [104], [169], [170], [173], [174], [251], [252]
animal, a progress toward mobility, [131]
antagonistic tendencies in, [103], [113], [185]
automatic and determinate, is action being undone, [248]
blind alleys of, [129]
circularity of each special, [128]
complementarity of the divergent lines of, [97]-102, [103], [116]
conceptually inexpressible, [49], [50], [52], [53], [127], [181], [273]
continuity of, [18], [19], [26], [37], [46], [273], [302], [312], [345]
creative, [7], [15], [21], [27], [30], [36], [37], [65], [100], [105], [161], [162], [163], [223], [230], [238], [264], [269]
culminating points of, [50], [133], [174], [185], [265], [266], [268]
development by, [133], [134], [141]-2
divergent lines of, xii, [53], [54], [87], [97]-101, [103]-4, [107], [173]-4, [246]
and duration, [20], [22], [37], [45]-6
empirical study of, the centre of the theory of knowledge and of life, [178]
and environment, [101]-3, [129], [133], [138], [142], [150], [167], [168], [169], [192], [193], [251], [256], [257]
of instinct, [170], [171], [174]-5.
See Divergent lines, etc., Culminating points, etc., Evolution and environment
of intellect, [x]-xii, [153], [186], [189]-90, [193], [198]-9, [207]-8, [359], [360].
See Divergent lines, etc., Culminating points, etc., Genesis of matter and of intellect
as invention, [344]
of man, [264], [266], [268].
See Culminating points, etc.
motive principle of, is consciousness, [181]
of species product of the vital impetus opposed by matter, [247]-8, [254]
and transformism, [24]
unforeseeable, [47], [48], [53], [86], [224]
variation in, [23]-4, [55], [63], [68], [72] note, [85], [131], [137]-8, [167], [169], [171], [264]
Evolutionary, qualitative, and extensive motion [302]-3, [311], [312]
superiority, [133]-5, [174]-5.
See Success, Criterion of evolutionary rank, Culminating points, etc.
Evolutionism, [x]-xii, [xiv], [77], [84], [364]
Exhaustion of the mutability of the universe, [337]-8
Existence, logical, as contrasted with psychical and physical, [276], [362]
of matter tends toward instantaneity, [201]
of self means change, [1] ff.
superaddition of, upon nothingness, [276]
Expectation, [214]-6, [221], [222], [226], [233], [235], [274], [281], [292]
in conception of disorder, [221], [222], [226], [233], [234], [235], [274]
in conception of void or naught, [282], [292]
Experience, [138], [147], [177], [197], [204], [229], [321], [354], [359], [363], [368]
Explosion, illustrating cause by release, [73]
Explosive character of animal energy, [116], [119], [120], [246]
of organization, [92]
Explosives, manufacture of, by plants and use by animals, [246], [254]
Extension, [149], [154], [161], [202], [203], [207], [211], [223], [236], [245], [318]-20, [324], [327], [351], [352]
continuity of, [154]
discontinuity of, relative to action, [154], [162]
as the distance between what is and what ought to be, [318]
divisibility of, [154], [162]
the most general property of matter, [154], [250], [251]
the inverse movement to tension, [245]
of knowledge, [150]
in Leibniz's philosophy, [351], [352]
of matter in space, [204], [211]
in the philosophy of Ideas, [318]-9, [323]-4, [327]
and relaxation, [202], [207], [209], [211], [212], [218], [223], [245]
in Spinoza's philosophy, [350]
in the Transcendental Aesthetic, [203]
unity of, [158]-9
as weakening of the essence of being, in Plotinus, [210] note
Extensive, evolutionary and qualitative motion, [302]-3, [311], [312]
External conditions in evolution, [128], [133], [137], [141]-2, [150]-1, [167], [168], [170], [192], [193], [252], [256], [257]
finality, [41]
Externality of concepts, [160], [168], [174], [177], [199], [251], [305], [311]-4
the most general property of matter, [154], [250], [251]
Externalized action in distinction from internalized, [147], [165].
See Somnambulism, etc., Automatic activity, etc.
[ Eye] of mollusc and vertebrate compared, [60], [75], [77], [84], [86], [87]-8
Fabre, [172] note
Fabrication. See [Construction]
Fallacies, two fundamental, [272], [273]
Fallacy of thinking being by not-being, [276], [277], [284], [297]-8
of thinking the full by the empty, [273]-5
of thinking motion by the motionless, [272], [273], [297]-8, [307]-8, [309]-14
Fallibility of instinct, [172]-3
Falling back of matter upon consciousness, [264]
bodies, comparison of Aristotle and Galileo, [228], [331]-2, [334]
weight, figure of material world, [245], [246]
Familiar, the, is the object of intellect, [163], [164], [199], [270]
Faraday, [203]
Fasting, in reference to primacy of nervous system over the other physiological systems, [124]
Fauna, menace of torpor in primitive, [130]
Feeling in the conception of chance, [207]
and instinct, [143], [174]-5
Fencing-master, illustrating hereditary transmission, [79]
Ferments, certain characteristics of, [106]
Fertilization of orchids by insects, by Darwin, [170] note
Fichte's conception of the intellect, [189]-90, [357]
Filings, iron, in illustration of the relation of structure to function, [94], [95]
Film, cinematographic, figure of abstract motion, [304]-6
Final cause, [40], [45], [234], [325]
conception of, involves conception of mechanical cause, [44]
God as, in Aristotle, [322]-3
[Finalism], [39]-53, [58], [74], [88]-97, [101]-5, [126]-8
Finality, [41], [164], [177]-8, [185], [223], [224], [266]
external and internal, [41]
misfit for the vital, [177], [223]-4, [225], [266]
and the unforeseeableness of life, [164], [185]
Fischel, [75] note
Fish in illustration of animal tendency to mobility, [130], [131]
Fixation of nutritive elements, [107]-9, [113], [117], [246], [247], [253]
Fixity, [108]-13, [118], [119], [130], [155].
See Torpor
apparent or relative, [155]
cellulose envelope and the, of plants, [108], [111], [130]
of extension, [155]
of plants, [108]-13, [118], [119], [130]-1
of torpid animals, [130]
Flint hatchets and human intelligence, [137]
Fluidity of life, [153], [165], [193]
of matter as a whole, [186], [369]
Flux of material bodies, [265]
of reality, [250], [251], [337], [342], [344]
Flying arrow of Zeno, [308], [309], [310]
Focalization of personality, [201]
Food, [106]-9, [113]-4, [117], [120], [121], [246], [247], [254]
Foraminifera, failure of certain, to evolve, [197]
Force, [126]-7, [141], [149], [150], [175], [246], [254], [339]
life a, inverse to matter, [246]
limitedness of vital force, [126], [127], [141], [149], [162]
time as, [339]-40
Forel, [176] note
[Foreseeing], [8], [28], [29], [30], [37], [45], [47], [96].
See Unforeseeableness
Form, [xi], [51], [101], [104], [113], [116]-8, [129], [135]-6, [148]-53, [155], [156], [160], [164], [195]-7, [222], [237], [250], [255], [302], [303], [314], [317], [318], [322], [341], [357], [359], [361], [362]

complementarity of forms evolved, [xi], [51], [101], [104], [113], [116]-8, [135]-6, [255]
expansion of the forms of consciousness, [xii], [xiii]
(or essences), qualities and acts the three kinds of representation, [302]-3
God as pure form in Aristotle, [196], [322]
or idea in ancient philosophy, [317], [318], [330]
of intelligence, [xiv], [48], [147], [148], [165], [190], [195], [196], [198], [207], [219], [257]-9, [266], [358]-9, [361].
See Concept
and matter in creation, [239], [250]
and matter in knowledge, [195], [361]
a snapshot view of transition, [302]
Formal knowledge, [152]
logic, [292]
Forms of sensibility, [361]
Fossil species, [102]
Foster, [125] note
Fox in illustration of animal intelligence, [138]
Frames of the understanding, [46]-7, [48], [150]-2, [173], [177], [197]-9, [219]-20, [223]-4, [258], [270], [313], [358], [364]
fit the inert, [197], [218]
inadequate to reality entire, [364]
misfit for the vital, [x],[ xiii], [xiv], [46], [48], [173], [177], [197]-9, [223], [258], [313]
product of life, [358]
transform freedom into necessity, [270]
utility of, lies in their unlimited application, [149]-50, [152]
[Freedom], [11], [48], [126], [130], [163], [164], [200], [202], [207], [208], [217], [223], [231], [237], [239], [247], [249], [264]-6, [269], [270], [277], [300], [339]-41, [345], [346]
the absolute as freely acting, [277]
affirmed by conscience, [269]
animal characteristic rather than vegetable, [129]-30
caprice attribute not of, but of mechanism, [47]
coextensiveness of consciousness with, [111], [112], [202], [264], [270]
of creation and life, [247], [254], [255]
creativeness of, [223], [239], [248]
in Descartes's philosophy, [345], [346]
as efficient causality, [277]
inversion of necessity, [236]
and liberation of consciousness, [265], [266].
See Imprisonment of consciousness
and novelty, [12], [163], [164], [200], [218], [231], [239], [249], [270], [339]-42
order in, [223]
property of every organism, [129]-31
relaxation of, into necessity, [217]
tendency of, to self-negation in habit, [127]
tension of, [200], [201], [202], [207], [223], [237], [301]
transformed by the understanding into necessity, [270]
See Spontaneity
Fringe of intelligence around instinct, [136]
of intuition around intellect, [xii], [xiii], [46]
of possible action around real action, [179], [272]
Froth, alveolar, in imitation of organic phenomena, [33]-4
Full, fallacy of thinking the, by the empty, [273]-6
Function, [ix], [3], [5], [44], [46], [47], [88]-90, [94], [95], [106]-10, [113], [114], [117], [120], [121], [127], [132], [140], [141], [145], [152], [153], [157], [161], [163], [164], [168], [173]-5, [186]-92, [199], [206], [207], [233], [237], [246], [251], [254]-6, [262], [263], [270], [273], [298], [306], [346], [358], [369]
accumulation of energy the function of vegetable organisms, [254], [255]
action the, of intellect, [ix], [12], [44], [47], [93], [161], [162], [186]-8, [206], [251], [273], [305]
action the, of nervous system, [262], [263]
alimentation, [106], [107], [120], [121], [246], [254]
of animals is canalization of energy, [93], [110], [126], [255], [256]
carbon and the, of organisms, [107], [113], [114], [117], [254], [255]
chlorophyllian, [107]-9, [114], [117], [246], [254]
concept-making the, of intellect, [x], [49]
of consciousness: sketching movements, [207]
construction the, of intellect, [108]
illumination of action, of perception, [5], [206], [307]-8
of intelligence: action, [ix], [12], [44], [46], [93], [160], [162], [186]-8, [206], [251], [273], [307]-8
of intelligence: concept-making, [x], [50]
of intelligence: construction, [160], [163], [181]-2
of intelligence: division, [154], [155], [162], [189]
of intelligence: illumination of action by perception, [5], [206], [301]
of intelligence: repetition, [164], [199], [214]-6
of intelligence: retrospection, [47], [237]
of intelligence: connecting same with same, [199], [233], [270]
of intelligence: scanning the rhythm of the universe, [346]
of intelligence: tactualizing all perception, [168]
of intelligence: unification, [152], [154], [357]
of the nervous system: action, [262], [263]
and organ, [88]-90, [94], [95], [132]-3, [140], [141], [158].
See Function and structure
and organ in arthropods, vertebrates and man, [132]-3
of the organism, [94], [106]-10, [112], [114], [117], [120], [126], [173]-5, [246], [253]-6
of the organism, alimentation, [106], [107], [120], [121], [246], [254]
of the organism, animal: canalization of energy, [93], [110], [126], [255], [256]
of the organism, carbon in, [107], [113], [114], [117], [254], [255]
of the organism, chlorophyllian function, [107]-9, [114], [117], [246], [247], [254]
of the organism, primary functions of life: storage and expenditure of energy, [254]-6
of the organism, vegetable: accumulation of energy, [254], [255]
of philosophy: adoption of the evolutionary movement of life and consciousness, [370]
of science, [168], [346]
sketching movements the, of consciousness, [207]
and structure, [55], [62], [66], [69], [74], [75], [76], [86], [88]-91, [93], [94], [96], [118], [132], [140], [141], [158], [162], [250], [252], [256]
tactualizing all perception the, of science, [168]
of vegetable organism: accumulation of energy, [254], [255]
Functions of life, the two: storage and expenditure of energy, [254]-6
Galileo, homogeneity of time in, [332]
his influence on metaphysics, [20], [228]
his influence on modern science, [334], [335]
extension of Galileo's physics, [357], [370]
his theory of the fall of bodies compared with Aristotle's, [228], [331], [332], [334]
Ganoid breast-plate of ancient fishes, in reference to animal mobility, [130], [131]
Gaudry, [130] note
[Genera], relation of, to individuals, [226]
relation of, to laws, [225], [226], [330]
potential, [226]-7
and signs, [158]
Generality, ambiguity of the idea of, in philosophy, [229]-31, [236]
Generalization dependent on repetition, [230], [231]
distinguished from transference of sign, [158]
in the vital and mathematical orders, [224], [225], [230]
Generic, type of the: similarity of structure between generating and generated, [223], [224]
Genesis, [xiii], [xiv], [153], [186]-199, [207], [359], [360]
of intellect, [xiii], [xiv], [153], [186], [187], [190], [193], [194], [196]-7, [207], [264], [360]
of knowledge, [191]
of matter, [xiii], [xiv], [153], [186], [188], [190], [193], [199], [207], [360]
Genius and the willed order, [223], [237]
Genus. See [Genera]
Geometrical, the, is the object of the intellect, [190]
Geometrical order as a diminution or lower complication of the vital, [223], [225], [236], [330].
See Genera, Relation of, to laws
mutual contingency of, and vital order, [235]
See Mathematical order
space, relation of, to the spatiality of things, [203]
Geometrism, the latent, of intellect, [194], [211]-3
Geometry, fitness of, to matter, [10]
goal of intellectual operations, [211], [213], [218]
ideal limit of induction and deduction, [214]-8, [361].
See Space, Descending movement of existence
modern, compared with ancient, [36], [161], [333]-4
natural, [194], [211]-2
perception impregnated with, [205], [230]
reasoning in, contrasted with reasoning concerning life, [7], [8]
scientific, [161], [211]
Germ, accidental predisposition of, in Neo-Darwinism, [168], [169], [170]
Germ-plasm, continuity of, [27], [37], [78]-83
Giard, [84]
Glucose in organic function, [122], [123]
Glycogen in organic function, [122]-4
God, as activity, [249]
of Aristotle, [196], [322], [325], [349], [353], [356]-7
ascent toward, in Aristotle's philosophy, [322]-3
circularity of God's thought, in Aristotle's philosophy, [324], [325]
in Descartes's philosophy, [346], [347]
as efficient cause in Aristotle's philosophy, [324]
as hypostasis of the unity of nature, [196], [322], [357]
in Leibniz's philosophy, [352], [353], [356]-7
as eternal matter, [196]-7
as pure form, [196]-7, [322]
in Spinoza's philosophy, [351], [357]
Greek philosophy. See [Ancient philosophy]
Green parts of plants, [107]-9, [114], [117], [246], [247], [254]
Growing old, [15]
Growth, creation is, [240]-1, [275]
and novelty, [231]
of the powers of life, [132], [134]-5
reality is, [237]
of the universe, [343], [345]
Guérin, P., [59] note
Guinea-pig, in illustration of hereditary transmission, [80], [81]
Habit and consciousness annulled, [143]
form of knowledge a habit or bent of attention, [148]
and heredity, [78], [93], [169], [170], [173].
See Acquired characters, inheritance of
instinct as an intelligent, [173]-4
and invention in animals, [264]
and invention in man, [265]
tendency of freedom to self-negation in, [127]-8
Harmony between instinct and life, and between intelligence and the inert, [187], [194]-5, [198]
of the organic world is complementarity due to a common original impulse [50], [51], [103], [116], [118]
pre-established, [205], [206]
in radical finalism, [127]-8.
See Discord
Hartog, [60] note
Hatchets, ancient flint, and human intellect, [137]
Heliocentric radius-vector in Kepler's laws, [333]-4
[Hereditary transmission], [76]-83, [87], [168]-9, [170], [173], [225]-6, [230]
domestication of animals and, [80]-1
habit and, [79], [83], [169], [170], [173]
Hesitation or choice, consciousness as, [143], [144]
Heteroblastia and identical structures on divergent lines of evolution, [75]
Heymons, [72] note
History as creative evolution, [6], [15], [21], [26], [29], [36], [37], [65]-6, [103]-4, [105], [163], [264], [269]
of philosophy, [238]
Hive as an organism, [166]
Homo faber, designation of human species, [139]
Homogeneity of space, [156], [212]
the sphere of intellect, [163]
of time in Galileo, [332]
Horse-fly illustrating the object of instinct, [146]
Houssay, [109] note
Human and animal attention, [184]
and animal brain, [184], [263]-5
and animal consciousness, [139]-43, [180], [183], [184], [187], [188], [191], [212], [263]-8
and animal instruments of action, [139]-43, [150]
and animal intelligence, [138], [187], [188], [191], [192], [212]
and animal invention, relation of, to habit, [264], [265]
intellect and language, [157]-8