Creative Evolution

by Henri Bergson

intellect and manufacture, [137], [138]
Humanity in evolution, [134], [137]-9, [142], [147], [158], [181], [184], [185], [264]-71.
See Culminating points, etc.
goal of evolution, [266], [267]
Huxley, [38]
Hydra and individuality, [13]
υλη of Aristotle, [353]
Hymenoptera, the culmination of arthropod and instinctive evolution, [134], [173]-4
as entomologists, [146], [172]-3
organization and instinct in, [140]
paralyzing instinct of, [146], [172], [173]-4
social instincts of, [101], [171]
Hypostasis of the unity of nature, God as, [196]-7, [322], [356]
Hypothetical propositions characteristic of intellectual knowledge, [149]-50
Idea or form in ancient philosophy, [49], [314], [316]-7, [318], [329]-30
in ancient philosophy, ειδος, [314]-5
in ancient philosophy, Platonic, [48]
and image in Descartes, [280]
Idealism, [232]
Idealists and realists alike assume the possibility of an absence of order, [220], [232]
Identical structures in divergent lines of evolution, [55], [60]-1, [62], [69], [74]-7, [86], [119]
Illumination of action the function of perception, [5], [206], [307]
Image and idea in Descartes, [280]
distinguished from concept, [160]-1, [280]
Imitation of being in Greek philosophy, [324], [327]
of instinct by science, [168]-9, [173]-4
of life in intellectual representation, [4], [33], [88]-9, [101], [176], [208], [209], [213], [226], [259], [341], [365]
of life by the unorganized, [33], [35], [36]
of motion by intelligence, [305], [307]-8, [312], [313], [329].
See Imitation of the real, etc.
of the physical order by the vital, [230]
of the real by intelligence, [258], [270], [307]
Immobility of extension, [155]
and plants, [108]-13, [118], [119], [130]
of primitive and torpid animals, [130]-1
relative and apparent; mobility real, [155]
Impatience, duration as, [10], [339]-40
Impelling cause, [73]
Impetus, vital, divergence of, [26]-7, [51]-5, [97]-105, [110], [118]-9, [126]-7, [131], [134]-6, [257], [258], [266], [270]
vital, limitedness of, [126], [141], [148]-9, [254]
vital, loaded with matter, [239]
vital, as necessity for creation, [252], [261]
vital, transmission of, through organisms, [25], [27], [79], [85], [87], [88], [230], [231], [250], [251]
vital, See Impulse of life
Implement, the animal, is natural: the human, artificial, [139]-43
artificial, [137]-40, [150]-1
constructing, function of intelligence, [159], [182]-3
life known to intelligence only as, [162]
matter known to intelligence only as, [161], [198]
natural, [141], [145], [150]
organized, [141], [145], [150]
unorganized, [137]-9, [141], [150]-1
Implicit knowledge, [148]
Impotence of intellect and perception to grasp life, [176]-8
Imprisonment of consciousness, [180]-3, [264]-6
Impulse of life, divergence of, [26], [27], [51]-5, [97]-105, [110], [118]-9, [126]-7, [131], [134]-6, [257], [258], [266], [270]
limitedness of, [126], [141], [148]-9, [254]
loaded with matter, [239]
tendency to mobility, [131], [132]
as necessity for creation, [252], [261]
negates itself, [247], [248]
prolonged in evolution, [246]
prolonged in our will, [239]
transmitted through generations of organisms, [25], [26], [79], [85], [87], [230], [231]
unity of, [202], [250], [270]
Impulsion and attraction in Greek philosophy, [323]-4
release and unwinding, the three kinds of cause, [73]
given to mind by matter, [202]
Inadequacy of act to representation, consciousness as, [143]
Inadequate and adequate in Spinoza, [353]
Inanition, illustrating primacy of nervous system, [124] note
Incoherence, [236].
See Absence of order, Chance, Chaos
in nature, [104]
Incommensurability of free act with conceptual idea, [47], [201]
of instinct and intelligence, [167]-8, [175]
Incompatibility of developed tendencies, [104], [168]
Independent variable, time as, [20], [335]-6
Indetermination, [86], [114], [126], [252], [253], [326].
See Accident in evolution
Indeterminism in Descartes, [345]
Individual, viewed by intelligence as aggregate of molecules and of facts, [250]-1
and division of labor, [140]
in evolutionist biology, [169], [171], [246] note
and genus, [226]-9
mind in philosophy, [191]
aesthetic intuition only attains the, [177]
and society, [260], [265]
transmits the vital impetus, [250], [259], [270]
Individuality never absolute, [x], [12], [13], [16], [19], [42], [260]
and age, [15]-23, [27], [43]
corporeal, physics tends to deny, [188], [189], [208].
See Interpenetration, Obliteration of outlines, Solidarity of the parts of matter
and generality, [226]-8
the many and the one in the idea of, [x], [258]
as plan of possible influence, [11]
Individuation never absolute, [x], [12]-16, [43], [260]
as a cosmic principle in contrast with association, [259]-60
property of life, [12]-5
partly the work of matter, [257]-8, [259], [270]
Indivisibility of action, [94], [95]
of duration, [6], [308]
of invention, [164]
of life, [225], [270]-1.
See Unity
of life of motion, [307]-11
Induction in animals, [214]
certainty of, approached as factors approach pure magnitudes, [222], [223]
and duration, [216]
and expectation, [214]-6
geometry the ideal limit of, [214]-8, [361].
See Space, Geometry, Reasoning, "Descending" movement of matter, etc.
and magnitude, [215], [216]
repetition the characteristic function of intellect, [164], [199], [205]-16
and space, [216].
See Space as the ideal limit, Systems, etc.
Industry, [ix], [161], [162], [164]
[ Inert matter and action], [96], [136], [141], [155], [187], [198], [225], [367]
in Aristotle, [316], [327], [353]
bodies, [7], [8], [12], [14], [20], [21], [156], [159], [174], [186], [188], [189], [204], [213], [215], [228], [240], [241], [298], [300], [341], [342], [346]-8, [360]
Creation of. See Inert matter the inversion of life
flux of, [186], [265], [273], [369]
and form, [148], [149], [157], [239], [250]
genesis of, [188]
homogeneity of, [156]
imitation of living matter by, [33], [35], [36]
imitation of physical order by vital, [230]
instantaneity of, [10], [201]
and intellect, [ix], [31], [141], [159]-62, [164], [165], [167]-8, [175], [179], [181], [186], [187], [195], [196], [197], [198], [205]-12, [216]-9, [224],
[264], [270], [319], [369]
the inversion or interruption of life, [93], [94], [98], [99], [128]-9, [153], [177], [186], [189], [190], [196], [197], [201], [203], [208], [216]-9, [231],
[235], [236], [239], [240], [245]-50, [252], [254], [256], [258], [259], [261], [264], [267], [272], [276], [319], [339]-40, [343].
See Inert matter, order inherent in
knowledge of, approximate but not relative, [206]
the metaphysics and the physics of, [195]-6
as necessity, [252], [264]
the order inherent in, [40], [103], [153], [201], [207]-12, [216], [226]-7, [230]-6, [245], [251], [263], [274], [319]-20.
See Inert matter, inversion of life
penetration of, by life, [25], [26], [51], [179], [181], [237], [239], [266], [270], [271]
and perception, [12], [206], [226]
and the psychical, [201], [202], [205], [269], [270], [350], [367]
solidarity of the parts of, [188], [202], [207], [241], [257]-9, [270], [271], [352]
and space, [10], [153], [189], [204]-11, [214], [244], [250], [251], [257]
in Spencer's philosophy, [365]
Inertia, [176], [224]
Infant, intelligence in, [147], [148]
Inference a beginning of invention, [138]
Inferiority in evolutionary rank, [174]-5
Influence, possible, [11], [189]
Infusoria, conjugation of, [15]
development of the eye from its stage in, [60]-1, [72], [78], [84]
and individuation, [260]
and mechanical explanations, [34], [35]
vegetable function in, [116]
Inheritance of acquired characters. See [Hereditary transmission]
Innate knowledge, [146]-7, [150]-1
Innateness of the categories, [148], [149]-50
Inorganic matter. See [Inert matter]
Insectivorous plants, [107]-9
Insects, [19], [101], [107], [126], [131], [134], [135], [140]-1, [146], [147], [157], [166], [169], [171]-5, [188]
apogee of instinct in hymenoptera, [134], [173]-4
consciousness and instinct, [145], [167], [173]
continuity of instinct with organization, [139], [145]
fallibility of instinct in, [172]-3
instinct in general in, [169], [173]-4
language of ants, [157]-8
object of instinct in, [146]
paralyzing instinct in, [146], [171], [172]-3
social instinct in, [101], [157]-8, [171]
special instincts as variations on a theme, [167].
See Arthropods in evolution
Insensible variation, [63], [66]
Inspiration of a poem an undivided intuitive act, contrasted with its intellectual imitation in words, [209], [210], [258].
See Sympathy
Instantaneity of the intellectual view, [31], [70], [84], [89], [199], [201]-2, [207], [226], [249], [258], [273], [300]-6, [311], [314], [331]-3, [342], [351], [352],
Instinct and action on inert matter, [136], [141]
in animals as distinguished from plants, [170]
in cells, [166]
and consciousness, [143]-5, [166], [167], [173], [174], [175], [186]
culmination of, in evolution, [133], [174]-5.
See Arthropods in evolution, Evolutionary superiority
fallibility of, [173]-4
in insects in general, [169], [173]-4
and intelligence, xii, [51], [100], [103], [113], [116]-8, [132]-7, [141]-3, [145], [150], [152], [159], [168]-70, [173]-9, [184]-5, [186], [197]-8, [238],
[246], [254], [255], [259],[267], [268], [343], [345], [366]
and intuition, [177], [178]-9, [181]
object of, [146]-52, [165], [168], [172]-9, [186], [189], [195], [234], [254]
and organization, [23]-4, [138]-40, [145], [166]-8, [171]-2, [173], [176], [193], [194], [264]
paralyzing, in certain hymenoptera, [146], [171], [172]-3
in plants, [170], [171]
social, of insects, [101], [157]-8, [171]
Instinctive knowledge, [148], [167], [168], [173]-4
learning, [193]

metaphysics, [192], [269], [270], [277]
Instrument, action as, of consciousness, [180]
animal, is natural; human artificial, [139]-43
automatic activity as instrument of voluntary, [252]
consciousness as, of action, [180]
intelligence: the function of intelligence is to construct instruments, [159], [192]-3
intelligence transforms life into an, [162]
intelligence transforms matter into an, [161], [198]
intelligence: the instruments of intelligence are artificial, ix, [137]-9, [140]-1, [150]-1
natural or organized instruments of instinct, [140]-1, [145], [150]
Intellect and action,[ ix], [11], [29], [44]-8, [93], [136], [142], [152]-7, [162], [179], [186], [187], [192], [195], [197]-8, [219], [220], [226]-9, [251], [270], [273], [297]-9, [301], [302], [306], [329], [346]-7
in animals, [187]
Fichte's conception of the, [189], [190], [357]
function of the, [5], [11], [12], [44]-50, [92], [93], [126], [137]-45, [149]-60, [162]-4, [168], [174], [176], [181], [187]-99, [204]-8, [214]-9, [229],
[233], [237], [241], [242], [246], [247], [251], [270], [290], [298], [299], [328], [336], [337], [341], [342], [347], [348], [356], [357]
genesis of the, [xi]-xv, [49], [103], [104]-5, [126]-7, [152], [153], [186], [187], [189], [193], [194], [195], [198], [207], [247]-9, [358], [359], [366]
as inversion of intuition, [7], [8], [11], [12], [46], [49], [51], [86], [88]-91, [93], [94], [103]-4, [113], [116]-8, [129], [132], [133], [135], [136], [139]-43,
[145], [157], [161], [168]-80, [181], [183], [184], [185], [190]-204, [207]-12, [216]-8, [221], [223], [225]-6, [230]-3, [235], [236], [238], [245]-52,
[254]-9, [264], [267]-71, [276], [277], [313], [330], [339], [342]-5, [361], [369]
and language, [4], [148], [158]-60, [258], [265], [292], [303], [304], [312], [313], [326]
and matter, [ix]-xv, [10], [11], [48]-9, [92], [135], [136], [141], [142], [152]-4, [155], [160], [161], [165], [168], [175], [179], [181], [182], [186]-7, [190],
[193], [194], [195], [198], [199], [201]-4, [205]-10, [213], [215], [218]-20, [224], [225]-30, [240]-2, [245], [246], [248]-52, [254], [256]-9, [264],
[270], [271], [272], [273], [275], [297]-8, [306], [319], [321], [329], [340], [341]-3, [347]-9, [355], [358]-61, [368], [369]
mechanism of the, [ix]-xv, [4], [30], [32], [47]-9, [70], [84]-5, [88]-9, [101], [137]-8, [150]-5, [156]-7, [160], [161], [164], [165], [167], [168], [173],
[174], [176], [177], [186], [187], [190]-3, [194]-218, [223]-40, [244], [246]-7, [249]-51, [254], [255], [257], [258], [266], [270], [273], [276]-7, [292],
[300]-21, [325], [329], [330], [332], [337], [338], [339], [341]-8, [351], [358]-9, [361]-2, [363]-4, [365], [367]
object of the, [ix]-xv, [7], [8], [10], [17], [20], [21], [30], [31], [34], [35], [37], [46]-9, [52], [71], [74], [84], [87]-92, [93], [95], [102], [103], [139], [140], [149],
[152]-66, [168], [173], [175]-9, [180], [181], [186], [190], [193]-211, [213], [216]-20, [223], [224], [226], [228]-30, [233], [237], [238], [240], [245],
[249]-51, [254], [255], [257]-9, [261], [264], [265], [270], [271], [273], [274], [298]-314, [318]-22, [326], [328], [329], [332]-8, [342], [344]-9, [351],
[352]-7, [359]-61, [363], [365], [369]-70
and perception, [4]-5, [11], [12], [93]-4, [161]-2, [168], [176]-7, [188], [189], [205], [207], [226]-7, [228]-9, [230], [238], [249]-51, [273],
[299]-300, [301], [306], [359]-60
and rhythm, [299], [300]-1, [306]-7, [329], [337], [346]-7
and science, [8]-12, [31], [92]-3, [152], [153], [157]-8, [159], [160]-1, [162]-3, [168], [173]-6, [187], [193]-8, [202], [204], [207]-9, [214]-6, [217],
[225]-6, [228]-9, [241], [251], [270], [273], [297]-8, [306], [321], [322], [329], [333]-5, [345], [346]-8, [354], [356], [357], [359]-60, [362]-3,
[369]-70
and space, [10]-11, [154], [156]-7, [160]-3, [174]-5, [176]-7, [189], [202]-4, [207]-12, [215], [218], [222]-3, [244], [245], [250], [251], [257]-8,
[361]-2
and time, [4], [8]-9, [17], [18], [20]-2, [36], [39], [45]-6, [47], [51], [163], [300], [301], [331]-2, [335]-7, [341]
possibility of transcending the, [xii], [xiii], [48], [152], [177]-8, [193]-4, [198]-200, [205]-6, [207]-8, [266], [360]-1.
See Philosophy, Intelligence
Intellectualism, hesitation of Descartes between, and intuitionism, [345]
Intelligence and action, [137]-41, [150], [154]-5, [161], [162]-3, [181], [189], [198], [306]
animal, [138], [187], [188], [212]
categories of, [x], [48], [195]-6
of the child, [147]-8
and consciousness, [187]
culmination of, [130], [139]-40, [174]-5.
See Superiority
genesis of, [136], [177]-8, [366]
and the individual, [251]
and instinct, [109], [135], [136], [141], [142], [168]-70, [173]-7, [179], [186], [197], [209], [238], [259], [267]
in Kant's philosophy, [357]-8
and laws, [229]-30
limitations of, [152]
and matter, [152], [159]-60, [161]-2, [175], [179], [181], [186], [189], [194]-8, [230], [237], [250], [369], [370]
mechanism of, [152], [153], [164], [165]
and motion, [153], [159]-60, [274], [303]-7, [312], [313], [329]
object of, [145]-56, [161], [162], [175], [179], [250]
practical nature of, [ix]-xv, [137]-9, [141], [150]-1, [247]-8, [305], [306], [328]-9
and reality, [ix]-xv, [161]-2, [177], [237], [251], [258], [269], [271], [307]
and science, [175], [176], [193], [194]-5
and signs, [157], [158], [159], [160]
and space, [205]
See Intellect, Understanding, Reason
Intelligent, the, contrasted with the merely intelligible, [175]
Intelligible reality in ancient philosophy, [316]-7
world, [160]-1
Intelligibles of Plotinus, [353]
Intension of knowledge, [149]-50
Intensity of consciousness varies with ratio of possible to real action, [144]-5
Intention as contrasted with mechanism, [233].
See Automatic order, Willed order of life the object of instinct, [176], [233]
Interaction, universal, [188]-9
Interest as cause of variation, [131]
in representation of "nought," [296], 297.
See Affection, rôle of, etc.
Internal finality, [41]
Internality of instinct, [168], [174]-5, [176]-7
of subject in object the condition of knowledge of reality, [307], [317], [358]-9
Interpenetration, [161], [162], [174]-5, [177], [184] note, [188], [189], [201]-3, [207]-8, [257], [258], [270], [319]-20, [341], [352]
Interruption, materiality an, of positivity, [219], [246], [247]-8, [319]-20.
See Inverse relation, etc.
Interval of time, [8]-9, [22], [23]
between what is done and what might be done covered by consciousness, [179]
Intuition, continuity between sensible and ultra-intellectual, [360]-1
dialectic and, in philosophy, [238].
See Intellect as inversion of intuition
fringe of, around the nucleus of intellect, xiii, [12], [46], [49], [193]
and instinct, [176]-9, [182]
and intellect in theoretical knowledge, [176]-9, [270]-1
Intuitional cosmology as reversed psychology, [207]-8
metaphysics contrasted with intellectual or systematic, [191]-2, [268]-70, [277]-8
method of philosophy, apparent vicious circle of, [191]-4, [195]-8
Intuitionism in Spinoza, [347]-8
and intellectualism in Descartes, [345]-6
Invention, consciousness as, and freedom, [264], [270]-1
creativeness of, [164], [237], [340], [341]
disproportion between, and its consequences, [181], [182]-3
duration as, [10]-1
evolution as, [102]-3, [255], [344]-5
fervor of, [164]
indivisibility of, [164]
inference a beginning of, [138]
mechanical, [142]-3, [194]-5
of steam engine as epoch-marking, [138]-9
time as, [341]
unforeseeableness of, [164]
upspringing of, [164]
See New
Inverse relation of the physical and psychical, [126]-7, [143]-4, [145], [173]-4, [177]-8, [201], [202], [206]-7, [208], [210]-1, [212], [217], [218], [222], [223], [236], [240], [245], [246], [247]-8, [249], [256], [257], [261], [264], [265], [270], [319]-20
Irreversibility of duration. See Repetition
Isolated systems of matter, [204], [213], [215], [241], [242], [341], [342], [346], [347]-8.
See Bodies
Janet, Paul, [60]-1 note
Jennings, [35] note
Jourdain and the two kinds of order, [221]
Juxtaposition, [207]-8, [338], [339], [341].
Cf. Succession
Kaleidoscopic variation, [74]
Kant, antinomies of, [204]-5, [206]
becoming in Kant's successors, [362]

coincidence of matter with space in Kant's philosophy, [206], [207]-8, [244]
construction the method of Kant's successors, [364]-5
his criticism of pure reason, [205], [287] note, [356]-62, [364]
degrees of being in Kant's successors, [362]-3
duration in Kant's successors, [362]-3
intelligence in Kant's philosophy, [230], [357]
ontological argument in Kant's philosophy, [285]
space and time in Kant's philosophy, [204]-6
and Spencer, [364]
See Mind and matter, Sensuous manifold, Thing-in-itself
Kantianism, [358], [364]
Katagenesis, [34]
Kepler, [228]-9, [332]-5
Knowledge and action, [150], [193]-4, [196], [197], [206]-7, [208], [218]
criticism of, [193]-4
discontinuity of, [306]
extension of, [149]
form of, [148], [194]-5, [358]-362
formal, [152]
genesis of, [190]
innate or natural, [146]-50
instinct in, [143], [144], [166]-9, [173], [177], [192]-3, [198], [268]
intellect in, [ix]-xv, [48], [149], [162]-4, [177], [179], [193]-4, [196]-9, [206]-7, [208], [218], [237], [238], [251], [270], [305], [306], [312], [313], [315],
[317], [325], [331]-2, [342], [343], [347]-8, [359]-60, [361]
intension of, [149]-50
of reality viewed as the internality of subject in object, [307], [317], [358]-9
intuition and intellect in theoretical knowledge, [174]-7, [179], [238], [70], [342]-4
matter of, [194]-5, [357]-8, [359]-62
of matter, [xi], [48], [206]-7, [360]-1
object of, [ix]-xv, [1], [48], [147], [148], [159]-60, [163], [164], [197]-9, [270], [342], [359]-60
fundamental problem of, [273]-5
as relative to certain requirements of the mind, [152], [190]-1, [230]
scientific, [193]-4, [196]-8, [206], [207], [218]
theory of, [xiii], [177], [179], [197], [204]-5, [207]-8, [229], [231]
unconscious, [142]-6, [146], [150], [165], [166]
alleged unknowableness of the thing-in-itself, [205], [206]
Kunstler, [260] note
Labbé [260] note
Labor, division of, [99], [110], [118], [140], [157], [166], [260]
Lalande, André, [246] note
Lamarck, [75]-6
Lamarckism, [75]-6, [77], [84]-87
Language, [4], [147], [157]-60, [258], [265], [293], [302]-3, [305], [312]-4, [320]
La Place, [38]
Lapsed intelligence, instinct as, [169], [175]
Larvae, [19], [140], [145]-66, [172]-3
Latent geometrism of intellect, [194], [211]-2
Law of correlation, [66], [67]
and genera, [226]-9, [330]
heliocentric radius-vector in Kepler's laws, [334]
imprint of relations and laws upon consciousness in Spencer's philosophy, [188]
and intuitional philosophy, [176]-7
physical, contrasted with the laws of our codes, [218]-9
physical, expression of the negative movement, [218]
physical, mathematical form of, [218], [219], [229]-30, [241]
relation as, [228], [229]-30
Learning, instinctive, [192], [193]
Le Dantec, [18] note
Leibniz, cause in, [277]
dogmatism of, [356], [357]
extension in, [351], [352]
God in, [351], [352], [356]
mechanism in, [348], [351], [355], [356]
his philosophy a systematization of physics, [347]
space in, [351]-2
teleology in, [39], [40]
time in, [352], [362]
Lepidoptera, [114] note, [134]
Le Roy, Ed., [218] note
Liberation of consciousness, [183]-4, [265], [266]
Liberty. See[ Freedom]
Life as activity, [128]-9, [246]
cause in the realm of, [94], [164]
complementarity of the powers of, [ix]-xv, [25]-6, [27], [51]-5, [97]-105, [110], [113], [116]-9, [126]-7, [131]-6, [140]-3, [176], [177], [183],
[184], [246], [254]-7, [266], [270], [343], [344]-5
consciousness coextensive with, [186], [257], [270], [362]-3
mutual contingency of the orders of life and matter, [235]
continuity of, [1]-11, [29], [30], [162], [163], [258]
as creation, [57]-8, [161]-2, [223], [230], [246], [247]-8, [252], [254], [255]
symbolized by a curve, [31], [89], [90]
embryonic, [166]
and finality, [44], [89], [164], [185], [222]-3
fluidity of, [153], [165], [191]-2, [193]
as free, [129]-30
function of, [93]-4, [106]-10, [113], [114], [117], [120], [121], [126]-7, [173]-5, [246], [254]-6
harmony of the realm of, [50], [51], [103], [116], [117]-8, [127]
imitation of the inert by, [230]
imitation of, by the inert, [33]-6
impulse of, prolonged in our will, [239]
and individuation, [12]-4, [26], [27], [79]-80, [85], [87], [88], [127]-8, [149], [195]-6, [230], [231], [250], [259], [261], [269], [300]-1, [302]-3.
See Individuality
indivisibility of, [225]-6, [270]
and instinct. [136]-40, [145], [165]-8, [170], [172], [173], [175]-9, [186], [192]-7, [233], [264], [366]
and intellect, [ix]-xv, [13], [32]-5, [44]-9, [89], [101], [102]-3, [104]-5, [127], [136], [152], [160]-5, [168], [173]-4, [176]-9, [181], [191]-201, [206],
[207], [213], [220], [222]-3, [224], [225]-6, [257]-61, [266], [270], [300]-1, [342], [355], [359]-61, [365], [366]
and interpenetration, [271]
as inversion of the inert, [6]-7, [8], [176], [177], [186], [190], [191], [196], [197], [201], [202], [207], [208]-9, [210]-1, [212], [216], [217], [218],
[222]-3, [225]-6, [232], [235], [236], [238], [239], [245]-50, [264], [329]-31
a limited force, [126], [127], [141], [148], [149], [254]
and memory, [167]
penetrating matter, [26], [27], [52], [179], [181], [182], [237], [239], [266], [269]-70
as tendency to mobility, [128], [131], [132]
and physics and chemistry, [31], [33], [35], [36], [225]-6
in other planets, [256]
as potentiality, [258]
repetition in, and in the inert, [224], [225], [230], [231]
sinuousness of, [71], [98], [99], [102], [112], [113], [116], [129]-30, [212]
social, [138], [140], [157]-8, [265]
in other solar systems, [256]
and evolution of species, [247]-8, [254], [269]
theory of, and theory of knowledge, [xii], [177], [179], [197]
unforeseeableness of, [6], [8]-9, [20], [26]-7, [28], [29], [37], [45]-6, [47], [48], [52], [86], [96], [163], [164], [184], [223]-4, [249], [339], [341]
unity of, [250], [268], [270]
as a wave flowing over matter, [251], [266]
See Impulse of, Organic substance, Organism, Organization, Vital impetus, Vital order, Vital principle, Vitalism,
Willed order
Limitations of instinct and of intelligence, [152]
Limitedness of the scope of Galileo's physics, [357], [370]
of the vital impetus, [126], [127], [141], [148], [149], [255]
Linden, Maria von, [114] note
Lingulae illustrating failure to evolve, [102]
Lizards, color variation in, [72], [74]
Locomotion and consciousness, [108], [111], [115], [261].
See Mobility, Movement
Logic and action, [ix], [44], [46], [162], [179]
formal, [292]
genesis of, [x]-xi, [xiii]-xiv, [49], [103], [104]-5, [136], [191]-2, [193], [301], [359], [366]
and geometry, [ix], [161], [176], [212]
impotent to grasp life, [x], [13], [32], [35], [36], [46]-9, [89], [101], [152], [162]-5, [194]-201, [205], [206], [213], [219], [220], [222], [223], [225]-6,
[256]-61, [266], [270], [313], [355], [360]-1, [365]
natural, [161], [194]-5
of number, [208]
and physics, [319]-20, [321]
and time, [4], [277]
See Intellect, Intelligence, Understanding, Order, mathematical
Logical existence contrasted with psychical and physical, [277], [298], [328], [361]-2
categories,[ x], [48], [195], [196]
and physical contrasted, [276]-7
Logik, by Sigwart, [287] note
λογος, in Plotinus, [210] note
Looking backward, the attitude of intellect, [46], [237]
Lumbriculus, [13]
Machinery and intelligence, [141]
Machines, natural and artificial, [139].
See Implement, Instrument
organisms, for action, [252], [254], [300]-1
Magnitude, certainty of induction approached as factors approach pure magnitudes, [215]-16
and modern science, [333], [335]
Man in evolution, attention, [184]
brain, [183], [184], [263]-5
consciousness, [139]-43, [180], [181], [183], [185], [187], [188], [191]-2, [212], [262]-8
goal, [134], [174]-5, [185], [266], [267], [269], [270]
habit and invention, [265]
intelligence, [133], [137]-9, [143], [146], [174], [175], [187], [188], [212], [266], [267]
language, [158]
Manacéine (de), [124] note
Manufacture, the aim of intellect, [137], [138], [145], [152]-4, [159]-65, [181], [191], [192], [199], [251], [298]
and organization, [92], [93], [126]-7, [139]-43, [150]
and repetition, [44], [45], [155]-8
See Construction, Solid, Utility
Many and one, categories inapplicable to life, [x], [162]-3, [177]-8, [257], [261], [268]
in the idea of individuality, [258]
See Multiplicity

Martin, J., [102] note
Marion, [107] note
Material knowledge, [152]
Materialists, [240]
Materiality the inversion of spirituality, [212]
Mathematical order. See Inert matter, Order
Matter. See Inert matter
Maturation as creative evolution, [47]-8, [230]
Maupas, [35] note
Measurement a human convention, [218], [242]
of real time an illusion, [336]-40
Mechanical account of action after the fact, [47]
cause, [x], [34], [35], [40], [44], [177], [234], [235]
procedure of intellect, [165]
invention, [138], [140], [194]-5
necessity, [47], [215], [216], [218], [236], [252], [265], [270], [327]
Mechanics of transformation, [32]
Mechanism, cerebral, [252], [253], [262], [263], [265], [366].
See Cerebral activity and consciousness
of the eye, [88]
instinct as, [176]-7
of intellect. See Intellect, mechanism of
and intention, [233].
See Automatic order, Willed order
life more than, [x], [xiv] note, [78]-9
Mechanistic philosophy, [xii], [xiv], [17], [29], [30], [37], [74], [88]-96, [101], [102], [194]-5, [218], [223], [264], [345], [346],

[347], [348], [351], [355], [356], [362]
Medical philosophers of the eighteenth century, [356]
science, [165]
Medullary bulb in the development of the nervous system, [252]
and consciousness, [110]
Memory, [5], [17], [20], [21], [167], [168], [180], [181], [201]
Menopause in illustration of crisis of evolution, [19]
Mental life, unity of, [268]
Metamorphoses of larvae, [139]-40, [146]-7, [166]
Metaphysics and duration, [276]
and epistemology, [177], [179], [185], [197], [208]-9
Galileo's influence on, [20], [238]
instinctive, [191]-2, [269], [270], [277]-8
and intellect, [189]-90
and matter, [194]
natural, [21], [325]
and science, [176]-7, [194]-5, [198], [208]-9, [344], [354], [369]-70
systematic, [191], [192], [194], [195]-6, [238], [269], [270], [347]
Metchnikoff, [18] note
Method of philosophy, [191]-2
Microbes, illustrating divergence of tendency, [117]
Microbial colonies, [259]
Mind, individual, in philosophy, [191]
and intellect, [48]-9, [205]-6
knowledge as relative to certain requirements of the mind, [152], [190]-1, [230]
and matter, [188]-9, [201], [202], [203], [205]-6, [264], [269], [270], [350], [365]-9
See Psychic, Psycho-physiological parallelism, Psychology and Philosophy, ψυχη
Minot, Sedgwick, [17] note
Mobility, tendency toward, characterizes animals, [109], [110], [113], [129]-32, [135], [180]
and consciousness, [108], [111], [115]-6, [261]
and intellect, [154]-5, [161]-2, [163], [300], [326], [327], [337]
of intelligent signs, [158], [159]
life as tendency toward, [127]-8, [131], [132]
in plants, [112], [135]
See Motion
Möbius, [60] note
Model necessary to the constructive work of intellect, [164], [166]-7
Modern astronomy compared with ancient science, [334], [335]
geometry compared with ancient science, [31], [161], [334]
idealism, [231]
philosophy compared with ancient, [225]-9, [231], [327]-8, [344], [345], [349]-51, [354], [356]-7
philosophy: parallelism of body and mind in, [180], [350], [355], [356]
science: cinematographical character of, [329], [330], [336], [341], [342], [346]-7
science compared with ancient, [329]-36, [342]-5, [356]-7
science, Galileo's influence on, [334], [335]
science, Kepler's influence on, [334]
science, magnitudes the object of, [333], [335]
science, time an independent variable in, [20], [335]
Molecules, [251]
Molluscs, illustrating animal tendency to mobility, [129]-31
perception in, [189]
vision in, [60], [75], [77], [83], [86], [87]
Monads of Leibniz, [351]-4
Monera, [126]
Monism, [355]
Moral sciences, weakness of deduction in, [212]
Morat, [123] note
Morgan, L., [79] note, [80]
Motion, abstract, [304]
articulations of, [310]-1
an animal characteristic, [252]
and the cinematograph, [304]-5
continuity of, [310]
in Descartes, [346]-7
evolutionary, extensive and qualitative, [302], [303], [311], [312]
in general (i.e. abstract), [304]-5
indivisibility of, [306]-7, [311], [336]-7, [338]
and instinct, [139]-40, [331]-2
and intellect, [71], [155], [156], [159]-60, [273], [274], [298], [317]-8, [321], [329], [331]-2, [338], [344]-5
organization of, [310]-1
track laid by motion along its course, [308]-11, [337], [338]
See Mobility, Movement
Motive principle of evolution: consciousness, [181]-2
Motor mechanisms, cerebral, [252], [253], [263], [265]
Moulin-Quignon, quarry of, [137]
Moussu, [81]
Movement and animal life, [108], [131], [132]
ascending, [12], [101], [103], [104], [185], [208]-9, [210]-1, [369]-70.
See Vital impetus
consciousness and, [111], [118], [144]-5, [207]-8
descending, [11]-2, [202]-4, [207]-10, [212], [246], [252], [256], [270], [276], [339], [361], [369]-70
goal of, the object of the intellect, [155], [299]-300, [302], [303]
intellect unable to grasp, [313]
mutual inversion of cosmic movements, [126]-7, [143], [144], [173]-4, [176], [177], [209]-10, [212], [217], [218], [222]-3, [236], [245]-51,
[261], [264], [265], [272], [342]-3
life as, [166], [176]-7
and the nervous system, [110], [132], [134], [180], [262]-3
of plants, [109], [135]-6
See Mobility, Motion, Locomotion, Current, Tendency, Impetus, Impulse, Impulsion
Movements, antagonistic cosmic, [128]-9, [135], [181], [185], [250], [259].
See Movement, Mutual inversion of cosmic
Multiplicity, abstract, [257], [259]
distinct, [202], [209]-10, [257].
See Interpenetration
does not apply to life, [x], [162], [177], [257], [261], [270]
Mutability, exhaustion of, of the universe, [244], [245]
Mutations, sudden, [28], [62]-3, [64]-8
theory of, [85]-6
Natural geometry, [195]-6, [211]-2
instrument, [141], [144]-5, [150]-1
or innate knowledge, [147], [150]-1
logic, [161], [194]-5
metaphysic, [21], [325]-6
selection, [54], [56]-7, [59]-60, [61]-5, [68], [95], [169]-70
Nature, Aristotelian theory of, [135], [174]
discord in, [127]-8, [255], [267]
facts and relations in, [368]
incoherence in, [104]
as inert matter, [161]-2, [218], [219], [228]-9, [239], [245], [264], [280]-1, [303], [356], [359]-60, [367]
as life, [100], [138], [139]-40, [141]-2, [143], [144]-5, [150], [154], [155]-6, [227], [241], [260], [269], [270], [301]-2
order of, [225]-6
as ordered diversity, [231], [233]
unity of, [105], [190], [191], [195], [196]-9, [322], [352]-7, [358]
Nebula, cosmic, [249], [257]
Necessity for creation, vital impetus as, [252], [261]
and death of individuals, [246] note
and freedom, [218], [236], [270]
in Greek philosophy, [326]-7
in induction, [215], [216]
and matter, [252], [264]
Negation, [275], [285]-97.
See Nought
Negative cause of mathematical order, [217].
See Inverse relation, etc.
cosmic principle, [126]-7, [143], [144], [173]-4, [176]-7, [209], [212], [218], [223]-4, [236], [245]-51, [261], [264]-5, [272], [243].
See Inert matter, Opposition of the two ultimate cosmic movements, etc.
Neo-Darwinism, [55], [56], [85], [86], [169]-70
Neo-Lamarckism, [42] note
[ Nervous system] a centre of action, [109], [130]-1, [132], [134]-5, [180], [253], [261]-3
of the plant, [114]
primacy of, [120]-1, [126]-7, [252]
Neurone and indetermination, [126]
[New], freedom and the, [11]-2, [164], [165], [199]-200, [218], [230], [239], [249], [270], [339]-42
Newcomen, [184]
Newton, [335]
Nitrogen and the function of organisms, [108], [113]-4, [117], [255]
νοησεως νοησις of Aristotle, [356]
Non-existence. See Nought
Nothing. See Nought
Nought, conception of the, [273]-80, [281]-3, [289]-90, [292]-8, [316]-7, [327].
See Negation, Pseudo-ideas, etc.
νους ποιητικος of Aristotle, [322]
Novelty. See [new].
Nucleus intelligence as the luminous, enveloped by instinct, [166]-7
in microbial colonies, [259]
intelligence as the solid, bathed by a mist of instinct, [193], [194]
of Stentor, [260]
Number illustrating degrees of reality, [324]-5, [327]
logic of, [208]
Nuptial flight, [146]
Nutritive elements, fixation of, [107]-9, [114], [117], [246], [247], [254]
Nymph (Zool.), [139], [146]
Object of this book, [ix]-xv
of instinct, [146]-52, [163], [175]-9
of intellect, [146]-52, [161]-5, [175], [179], [190]-1, [199]-200, [237], [250], [252], [270], [273], [298]-304, [307]-8, [311]-2, [354], [359]
internality of subject in, the condition of knowledge of reality, [307]-8, [317]-8, [359]
of knowledge, [147], [148]-9, [159]-60
idea of, contrasted with that of universal interaction, [11], [188]-9, [207]-8
of philosophy as contrasted with object of science, [195]-6, [220]-1, [225]-6, [227], [239], [251], [270], [273], [297]-9, [305]-6, [347]
of science, [329], [332]-3, [335]-6
Obliteration of outlines in the real, [11], [188], [189], [207]-8
Oenothera Lamarckiana, [63], [85]-6
Old, growing. See[ Age]
the, is the object of the intellect, [163], [164], [199], [270]
One and many in the idea of individuality, [x], [258].
See Unity
Ontological argument in Kant, [284]
Opposition of the two ultimate cosmic movements, [128]-9, [175]-6, [179], [186], [201], [203], [238], [248], [254], [259], [261], [267].
See Inverse relation of the physical and psychical
Orchids, instincts of, [170]
Order and action, [226]-7
complementarity of the two orders, [145]-6, [173]-4, [221]-2.
See Order, Mutual inversion of the two orders
mutual contingency of the two orders, [231], [235]
and disorder, [40], [103]-4, [220]-2, [225]-6, [231]-6, [274]
mutual inversion of the two orders, [186], [201], [202], [206]-9, [211], [212], [216]-8, [219]-21, [222]-3, [225]-6, [230], [232], [235], [236],
[238], [240], [245]-8, [256], [257], [258], [264], [270], [274], [313], [330]
mathematical, [153], [209]-11, [217]-9, [223]-6, [230]-3, [236], [245], [251], [270], [330]-1
of nature, [225]-6, [231], [233]
as satisfaction, [222], [223], [274]
vital, [94]-5, [164], [222]-7, [230], [235], [236], [237], [330]-1
willed, [224], [239]
Organ and function, [88]-91, [93]-4, [95], [132], [140], [141], [157], [161]-2
Organic destruction and physico-chemistry, [226]
substance, [131], [140], [141]-2, [149], [162]-3, [195]-6, [240] note, [255], [267]
world, cleft between, and the inorganic, [190], [191], [196], [197]-8
world, harmony of, [50]-1, [103], [104], [116], [118], [126]-7
world, instinct the procedure of, [165]
Organism and action, [123]-4, [125], [174], [253], [254], [300]-1

ambiguity of primitive, [99], [112], [113], [116], [129], [130]
association of organisms, [260]
change and the, [301], [302]-3
complementarity of intelligence and instinct in the, [141]-2, [150], [181], [184], [185]
complexity of the, [162], [250], [252], [253], [260]
consciousness and the, [111], [145], [179], [180], [262], [270]
contingency of the actual chemical nature of the, [255], [257]
differentiation of parts in, [252], [260].
See Organism, complexity of
extension of, by artificial instruments, [141], [161]
freedom the property of every, [130], [131]
function of, [26], [27], [79], [80], [85], [87], [88], [93]-4, [106]-110, [113], [114], [117], [120], [121], [126]-7, [128], [136], [173]-5, [230], [231], [246],
[247], [250], [251], [254], [255], [256], [258], [270]
function and structure, [55], [61], [62], [69], [74], [75], [76]-7, [86], [88]-91, [93]-4, [95], [96]-7, [118]-9, [132], [139], [140], [157]-8, [161]-3, [250],
[252], [256]
generality typified by similarity among organisms, [223], [224], [228]-9, [230]
hive as, [166]
and individuation, x, [12], [13], [15], [23], [26]-7, [42], [149], [195]-6, [225]-6, [228]-9, [259], [260], [261], [270]
mutual interpenetration of organisms, [177]-8
mechanism of the, [31], [92]-3, [94]
philosophy and the, [195]-6
unity of the, [176]-8
Organization of action, [142], [145], [147]-8, [150], [181], [184], [185]
of duration, [5]-6, [15], [25], [26]
explosive character of, [92]
and instinct, [24], [138]-46, [150], [165]-7, [171]-2, [173], [176], [192]-3, [194], [264]
and intellect, [161]-2
and manufacture, [92], [93], [94]-5, [96], [126]-8
is the modus vivendi between the antagonistic cosmic currents, [181], [250], [254]
of motion, [310]
and perception, [226]-7
Originality of the willed order, [224]
Orthogenesis, [69], [86]-7
Oscillation between association and individuation, [259], [261].
See Societies
of ether, [301]-2
of instinct and intelligence about a mean position, [136]
of pendulum, illustrating space and time in ancient philosophy, [318]-9, [320]
between representation of inner and outer reality, [279]-80
of sensible reality in ancient philosophy about being, [316]-8
Outlines of perception the plan of action, [5], [11], [12], [93], [188], [189], [204]-5, [206]-7, [226]-7, [228]-9, [230], [250], [299]-300, [306]
Oxygen, [114], [254], [255]
Paleontology, [24]-5, [129], [139]
Paleozoic era, [102]
Parallelism, psycho-physiological, [180], [350], [351], [355], [356]
Paralyzing instinct in hymenoptera, [139]-40, [146], [172], [174]-5
Parasites, [106], [108], [109], [111]-13, [134]-5
Parasitism, [132]
Passivity, [222]-4
Past, subsistence of, in present, [4], [20]-3, [26]-7, [108], [199]-202
Peckham, [173]-4 note
Pecten, illustrating identical structures in divergent lines of evolution, [62], [63], [75]
Pedagogical and social nature of negation, [287]-97
Pedagogy and the function of the intellect, [165]
Penetration, reciprocal, [161]-2.
See Interpenetration
[Perception] and action, [4]-5, [11], [12], [93], [188], [189], [206], [226]-7, [228]-9, [300]-1, [306]-7
and becoming, [176]-7, [303]-6
cinematographical character of, [206]-7, [249], [251], [331]-2
distinctness of, [226]-7, [250]
and geometry, [205], [230]
in molluscs, [188]
and organization, [226]-7
prolonged in intellect, [161]-2, [273]
reaction in, [264]
and recollection, [180], [181]
refracts reality, [204], [238], [359]-60
rhythm of, [299]-300, [301]
and science, [168]
Permanence an illusion, [299]-301
Peron, [80]
Perrier, Ed., [260] note
Personality, absolute reality of, [269]
concentration of, [201], [202]
and matter, [269], [270]
the object of intuition, [268]
tension of, [199], [200], [201]
Perthes, Boucher de, [137]
Phaedrus, [156] note
Phagocytes and external finality, [42]
Phagocytosis and growing old, [18]
Phantom ideas and problems, [177], [277], [283], [296]
Philosophical explanation contrasted with scientific explanation, [168]
Philosophy and art, [176]-7
and biology, [43]-4, [194]-6
and experience, [197]-8
function of [29]-30, [84]-5, [93]-4, [168], [173]-4, [194]-7, [198], [268], [269], [369]-70
history of, [238]
incompletely conscious of itself, [207]-8, [209]
individual mind in, [191]
and intellect, [ix]-xv
intellect and intuition in, [238]
of intuition, [176]-7, [191]-4, [196], [197], [277]
method of, [191]-2, [194], [195], [239]
object of, [239]
and the organism, [195]-6
and physics, [194], [208]
and psychology, [194], [196]
and science, [175], [196]-7, [208], [345], [370]
See Ancient philosophy, Cosmology, Finalism, Mechanistic philosophy, Metaphysics, Modern philosophy,
Post-Kantian philosophy
Phonograph illustrating "unwinding" cause, [73]
Phosphorescence, consciousness compared to, [262]
Photograph, illustrating the nature of the intellectual view of reality, [31], [304]-5
Photography, instantaneous, illustrating the mechanism of the intellect, [331]-2, [333]
Physical existence, as contrasted with logical, [276], [297]-8, [328], [361]
laws, their precise form artificial, [218], [219], [229], [240]-1
laws and the negative cosmic movement, [218]
operations the object of intelligence, [175], [250]
order, imitation of, by the vital, [230]
science, [176]-7
Physicochemistry and organic destruction, [226]
and biology, [25]-6, [29]-30, [34], [35], [36], [55], [57], [98], [194]
Physics, ancient, "logic spoiled," [320], [321]-2
of ancient philosophy, [315], [320], [321]-2, [355]
of Aristotle, [228] note, [324] note, [331], [332]
and deduction, [213]
of Galileo, [357], [369]-70
and individuality of bodies, [188], [208]
as inverted psychics, [202]
and logic, [319]-20, [321]
and metaphysics, [194], [208]
and mutability, [245]
success of, [218], [219]
Pigment-spot and adaptation, [60], [61], [71]-3, [76]-7
and heredity, [83], [84]
Pinguicula, certain animal characteristics of, [107]
Plan, motionless, of action the object of intellect, [155], [298]-9, [301]-2, [303]
Planets, life in other, [256]
[Plants] and animals in evolution, [105]-39, [142]-3, [144], [145]-6, [147], [168], [169]-70, [181], [182], [183]-4, [185], [254], [267]
complementarity of, to animals, [183]-4, [185], [267]
consciousness of, [109], [111], [113], [120], [128]-35, [142]-3, [144], [181], [182], [292].
See Torpor, Sleep
function of, [107]-9, [113], [114], [117], [246], [247], [254], [256]
function and structure in, [67], [77]-8, [79]
individuation in, [12]
instinct in, [170], [171]
and mobility, [108], [109], [111]-13, [118]-9, [129], [130], [135]-6
parallelism of evolution with animals, [59]-60, [106]-8, [116]
supporters of all life, [271]
variation of, [85], [86]
Plasma, continuity of germinative, [25]-6, [42], [78]-83
Plastic substances, [255]
Plato, [49], 156, [191], [210] note, [316], [318], [319], [320], [321], [327], [330], [347], [349]
Platonic ideas, [49], [315]-6, [321], [322], [327], [330], [352]
Plotinus, [210] note, [314]-5, [323], [324] note, [349], [352], [353]
Plurality, confused, of life, [257].
See Interpenetration
Poem, sounds of, distinct to perception; the sense indivisible to intuition, [209]
illustrating creation of matter, [240], [319]-20
ποιητικος νους, of Aristotle, [322]
Polymorphism of ants, bees, and wasps, [140]
of insect societies, [157]
Polyzoism, [260]
Positive reality, [208], [212]. See Reality
Positivity, materiality an inversion or interruption of, [219], [246], [247]-8, [319]-20
Possible activity as a factor in consciousness, [11], [12], [96], [144], [145], [146]-7, [158]-9, [165], [179], [180], [181], [189], [264], [368]
existence, [290], [295]
Post-Kantian philosophy, [362], [363]
Potential activity. See Possible activity
genera, [226]
knowledge, [142]-7, [150], [166]
Potentiality, life as an immense, [258], [270]
zone of, surrounding acts, [179], [180], [181], [264].
See Possible activity
Powers of life, complementarity of, [xii], [xiii], [26], [27], [51]-5, [97]-105, [110], [113], [116]-8, [119], [126]-7, [131]-6, [140]-3, [176], [177], [183], [184], [246], [254], [255], [257], [266], [270], [343], [345]
Practical nature of perception and its prolongation in intellect and science, [137]-41, [150], [193]-4, [196], [197], [206], [207]-8, [218], [247]-8, [273], [281], [305], [306]-7, [328], [329]
Preëstablished harmony, [205]-6, [207]
Present, creation of, by past, [5], [20]-3, [26]-7, [167], [199]-202
Prevision. See[ Foreseeing]
Primacy of nervous system, [120]-6, [252]
Primary instinct, [138]-9, [168]
Primitive organisms, ambiguous forms of, [99], [112], [113], [116], [129], [130]
"Procession" in Alexandrian philosophy, [323]
Progress, adaptation and, [101] ff.
evolutionary, [50], [133], [134], [138], [141]-2, [173]-4, [175], [185], [264]-5, [266]
Prose and verse, illustrating the two kinds of orders, [221], [232]
Protophytes, colonizing of, [259]
Protoplasm, circulation of, [32]-3, [108]
and senescence, [18], [19]
imitation of, [32]-3, [35]
primitive, and the nervous system, [124], [126]-7
of primitive organisms, [99], [108], [109]
and the vital principle, [42]-3
Protozoa, association of, [259]-61
ageing of, [16]
of ambiguous form, [112]
and individuation, [14], [259]-61
mechanical explanation of movements of, [33]
and nervous system, [126]

reproduction of, [14]
Pseudo-ideas and problems, [177], [277], [283], [296]
Pseudoneuroptera, division of labor among, [140]
ψχνη of Aristotle, [350]
of Plotinus, [210] note
Psychic activity, twofold nature of, [136], [140]-1, [142]-3
life, continuity of, [1]-11, [29]-30
Psychical existence contrasted with logical, [276], [297]-8, [327]-8, [361]
nature of life, [257]
Psychics inverted physics, [201], [202].
See Inverse relation of the physical and psychical
Psychology and deduction, [212]-3
and the genesis of intellect, [187], [194], [195]-6, [197]
intuitional cosmology as reversed, [208]-9
Psycho-physiological parallelism, [180], [350], [351], [355], [356]
Puberty, illustrating crises in evolution, [19], [320]-1
Qualitative, evolutionary and extensive becoming, [313]
motion, [302]-3, [304], [311]
Qualities, acts, forms, the classes of representation, [303], [314]
bodies as bundles of, [300]-1
coincidence of, [309]
and movements, [299]-300
and natural geometry, [211]
superimposition of, in induction, [216]
Quality is change, [299]-300
in Eleatic philosophy, [314]-5
and quantity in ancient philosophy, [323]-4
and quantity in modern philosophy, [350]
and rhythm, [300]-2
Quaternary substances, [121]
Quinton, René, [134] note
Radius-vector, Heliocentric, in Kepler's laws, [334]
Rank, evolutionary, [50], [133]-5, [173]-4, [265]
Reaction, rôle of, in perception, [226]-7
Ready-made categories, x, xiv, [48], [237], [250], [251], [273], [311], [321], [329], [354], [359]
Real activity as distinguished from possible, [145]
common-sense is continuous experience of the, [213]
continuity of the, [302], [329]
dichotomy of the, in modern philosophy, [349]
imitation of the, by intelligence, [90], [204], [258], [270], [307], [355]
obliteration of outlines in the, [11]-2, [188], [189], [207]-8
representation of the, by science, [203]-4
Realism, ancient, [231]-2
Realists and idealists alike assume possibility of absence of order, [220], [231]-2
Reality, absolute, [198], [228]-9, [230], [269], [359]-60, [361]
as action, [47], [191]-2, [194]-5, [249]
degrees of, [323], [327]
in dogmatic metaphysics, [196]
double form of, [179]-80, [216], [230]-1, [236]
as duration, [11]-2, [217], [272]
as flux, [165], [250], [251], [294], [337], [338], [342]
and the frames of the intellect, [363]-4, [365].
See Frames of the understanding
as freedom, [247]
of genera in ancient philosophy, [226]-7
is growth, [239]
imitation of, by the intellect, [89]-90, [365]
and the intellect, [52], [89]-90, [153], [191], [192], [314]-5, [355]-6
intelligible, in ancient philosophy, [317]
knowledge of, [307]-8, [317], [358]-9
and mechanism, [351], [354]-5
as movement, [90], [155], [301]-2, [312]
and not-being, [276], [280], [285]
of the person, [269]
refraction of, through the forms of perception, [204], [238], [359]-60
[and science], [194], [196], [198], [199], [203]-4, [206]-8, [354], [357]
sensible, in ancient philosophy, [314], [317], [321], [327], [328], [352]
symbol of, xi, [30]-1, [71], [88]-9, [93]-4, [195]-6, [197], [209], [240], [342], [360]-1, [369]
undefinable conceptually, [13], [49]
unknowable in Kant, [205]
unknowable in Spencer, [xi]
views of, [30]-1, [71], [84], [88], [199], [201], [206]-7, [225]-6, [249], [258], [273], [300]-7, [311], [314], [331]-2, [342], [351], [352]
Reason and life, [7], [8], [48], [161]
cannot transcend itself, [193]-4
Reasoning and acting, [192]-3
and experience, [203]-4
and matter, [204]-5, [208]-9
on matter and life, [7], [8]
Recollection, dependence of, on special circumstances, [167], [180]
in the dream, [202], [207]-8
and perception, [180], [181]
Recommencing, continual, of the present in the state of relaxation, [201]
Recomposing, decomposing and, the characteristic powers of intellect, [157], [251]
Record, false comparison of memory with, [5]
Reflection, [158]-9
Reflex activity, [110]
compound, [173]-4, [175]-6
Refraction of the idea through matter or non-being, [316]-7
of reality through forms of perception, [204], [238], [359]-60
Regeneration and individuality, [13], [14]
Register of time, [16], [20], [37]
Reinke, [42] note
Relation, imprint of relations and laws upon consciousness, [188]
as law, [229], [230]-1
and thing, [147]-52, [156]-7, [160], [161], [187], [202], [352], [357]
Relativism, epistemological, [196], [197], [230]
Relativity of immobility, [155]
of the intellect, [xi], [48]-9, [152], [153], [187], [195]-6, [197]-8, [199], [219], [273], [306]-7, [360]-1
of knowledge, [152], [191], [230]
of perception, [226]-7, [228], [300]-1
Relaxation in the dream state, [201], [209]-10
and extension, [201], [207]-8, [209], [210], [212], [218], [223], [245]
and intellect, [200], [207]-8, [209], [212], [218]
logic a, of virtual geometry, [212]
matter a, of unextended into extended, [218]
memory vanishes in complete, [200]
necessity as, of freedom, [218]
present continually recommences in the state of relaxation, [200]
will vanishes in complete, [200], [207]-8
See Tension
Releasing cause, [73], [74], [115], [118]-9, [120]
Repetition and generalization, [230]-1, [232]
and fabrication, [44]-5, [46], [155]-8
and intellect, [156]-7, [199], [214]-6
of states, [5]-6, [7]-8, [28]-9, [30], [36], [45]-6, [47]
in the vital and in the mathematical order, [225], [226], [230], [231]
Representation and action, [143]-4, [145], [180]
classes of: qualities, forms, acts, [302]-3, [314]
and consciousness, [143]-4
of motion, [159]-60, [303]-4, [305], [306]-7, [308], [313], [315], [344]-5
of the Nought, [273]-80, [281]-4, [289]-317, [327]
Represented or internalized action distinguished from externalized action, [144]-7, [158]-9, [165]
Reproduction and individuation, [13], [14]
Resemblance. See [Similarity]
Reservoir, organism a, of energy, [115], [116], [125]-6, [245], [246], [254]
Rest and motion in Zeno, [308]-12
Retrogression in evolution, [133], [134]
Retrospection the function of intellect, [47]-8, [237]
Reversed psychology: intuitional cosmology, [208]
Rhizocephala and animal mobility, [111]
Rhumbler, [34] note
Rhythm of duration, [11]-2, [127]-8, [300]-1, [345]-7
intelligence adopts the, of action, [305]-6
of perception, [299]-300, [301]
and quality, [301]
scanning the, of the universe the function of science, [346]-7
of science must coincide with that of action, [320]
of the universe untranslatable into scientific formulae, [337]
Rings of arthropods, [132]-3
Ripening, creative evolution as, [47]-8, [340]-1
Romanes, [139]
Roule, [27] note
Roy (Le), Ed., [218] note
Salamandra maculata, vision in, [75]
Salensky, [75] note
Same, function of intellect connecting same with same, [199]-200, [233], [270]
Samter and Heymons, [72] note
Saporta (De), [112] note
Savage's sense of distance and direction, [212]
Skepticism or dogmatism the dilemma of any systematic metaphysics, [195]-6, [197], [230]-1
Schisms in the primitive impulsion of life, [254]-5, [257].
See Divergent lines of evolution
Scholasticism, [370]
Science and action, [93], [195], [198], [328]-9
ancient, and modern, [329]-37, [342]-5, [357]
astronomy, ancient and modern, [334]-5, [336]
cartesian geometry and ancient geometry, [333]-4
cinematographical character of modern, [329], [330], [336]-7, [340]-1, [342], [345]-8
conventionality of a certain aspect of, [206]-7
and deduction, [212]-3
and discontinuity, [161]-2
function of, [92], [167]-8, [173]-4, [176]-7, [193]-4, [195]-6, [198]-9, [328]-9, [346]-7
Galileo's influence on modern, [333]-4, [335]
and instinct, [169], [170], [173]-4, [175], [193]-5
and intelligence, [176], [177], [193]-6
Kepler's influence on modern, [334]
and matter, [194]-5, [206]-7, [208]
modern. See Modern science
object of, [195]-6, [220], [221], [251], [270]-1, [273], [296]-8, [306]-7, [328]-9, [332]-3, [335]-6, [347]-8
and perception, [168]
and philosophy, [175]-6, [196]-7, [208]-9, [344], [370]
physical. See Physics and reality. See [ Reality and science]
and time, [8]-13, [20], [335]-8
unity of, [195]-6, [197], [228]-9, [230], [321]-2, [323], [344]-5, [347]-8, [349], [354], [355]-6, [359]-60, [362]-3
Scientific concepts, [338]-40
explanation and philosophical explanation, [168]
formulae, [337]
geometry, [161], [211]
knowledge, [193]-4, [196]-7, [198], [199], [207], [208], [218]
Sclerosis and ageing, [19]
Scolia, paralyzing instinct in, [172]
Scope of action indefinitely extended by intelligent instruments, [141]
of Galileo's physics, [357], [370]
Scott, [63] note
Sea-urchin and individuality, [13]
Séailles, [29] note
Secondary instincts, [139], [168]
Sectioning of becoming in the philosophy of ideas, [317]-8
of matter by perception, [206]-7, [249], [251]
Sedgwick, [260] note
Seeing and willing, coincidence of, in intuition, [237]
Selection, natural, [54], [56]-7, [59]-60, [61]-2, [63], [64], [68], [95]-6, [169], [170]
Self, coincidence of, with, [199]
existence of, means change, [1] ff.
knowledge of, [1] ff.
Senescence, [15]-23, [26]-7, [42]-3
Sensation and space, [202]
Sense-perception. See[ Perception]
Sensible flux, [316]-7, [318], [321], [322], [327], [343], [345]
intuition and ultra-intellectual, [360]-1
object, apogee of, [342]-3, [344]-5, [349]
reality, [314], [317], [319], [327], [328], [352]
Sensibility, forms of, [361]
Sensitive plant, in illustration of mobility in plants, [109]
Sensori-motor system. See[ Nervous system]
Sensuous manifold, [205], [221], [232], [235], [236]
Sentiment, poetic, in illustration of individuation, [258], [259]
Serkovski, [259] note
Serpula, in illustration of identical evolution in divergent lines, [96]
Sexual cells, [14], [26], [27], [79]-81
Sexuality parallel in plants and animals, [58]-60, [119]-21
Shaler, N.S., [133] note, [184] note
Sheath, calcareous, in illustration of animal tendency to mobility, [130]-1
Signs, function of, [158], [159], [160]
the instrument of science, [329]-30
Sigwart, [287] note
Silurian epoch, failure of certain species to evolve since, [102]
[Similarity] among individuals of same species the type of generality, [224]-6, [228]-9, [230]-1
and mechanical causality, [44], [45]
Simultaneity, to measure time is merely to count simultaneities, [9], [336], [337], [341]
Sinuousness of evolution, [71], [98],

[102], [212]-3
Sitaris, unconscious knowledge of, [146], [147]
Situation and magnitude, problems of, [211]
Sketching movements, function of consciousness, [207]-8
Sleep, [129]-31, [135], [181]
Snapshot, in illustration of intellectual representation of motion, [305], [306], [313], [315], [344]
See View of reality, Cinematographical character, etc.
form defined as a, of transition, [301]-2, [317], [318], [321]-2, [345]
Social instinct, [101], [140], [158], [171]-2
life, [138], [140], [158], [265]
and pedagogical character of negation, [287]-97
Societies, [101], [131]-2, [158], [171]-2, [259]
Society and the individual, [260], [265]
Solar energy stored by plants, released by animals, [246], [254]
systems, [241]-4, [246] note, [256], [270]
systems, life in other, [256]
Solid, concepts analogous to solids, [ix]
intellect as a solid nucleus, [193], [194]
the material of construction and the object of the intellect, [153], [154], [161], [162], [251]
Solidarity between brain and consciousness, [180], [262]
of the parts of matter, [203], [207]-8, [241], [271]
Solidification operated by the understanding, [249]
σωμα in Aristotle, [350]
Somnambulism and consciousness, [144], [145], [159]
Soul and body, [350]
and cell, [269]
creation of, [270]
Space and action, [203]
in ancient philosophy, [318], [319]
and concepts, [160]-1, [163], [174]-5, [176]-7, [188]-9, [257]-9
geometrical, [203]
homogeneity of, [156], [212]
and induction, [216]
in Kant's philosophy, [205], [206], [207], [244]
in Leibniz's philosophy, [351]
and matter, [189], [202]-13, [244], [257], [264], [361]-2, [368]
and time in Kant's philosophy, [205]-6
unity and multiplicity determinations of, [357]-9
See Extension
Spatiality atmosphere of, bathing intelligence, [205]
degradation of the extra-spatial, [207]
and distinctness, [203], [207], [244], [250], [257]-9
and geometrical space, [203], [211], [213], [218]
and mathematical order, [208], [209]
Special instincts and environment, [138], [168], [192]-3, [194]
and recollections, [167], [168], [180]
as variations on a theme, [167], [172], [264]
Species, articulate, [133]
evolution of, [247], [255], [269]
and external finality, [128]-9, [130]-1, [132], [266]
fossil, [102]
human, as goal of evolution, [266], [267]
human, styled homo faber, [139]
and instinct, [140], [167], [170]-2, [264]
and life, [167]
similarity within, [223]-6, [228]-9, [230]-1
Speculation, dead-locks in, [xii], [155], [156], [312], [313]-4
object of philosophy, [44], [152], [196], [198], [220], [225]-6, [227], [251], [270]-1, [273], [297]-8, [306]-7, [317], [347]-8
Spencer, Herbert, xi, xiv, [78]-9, [153], [188], [189], [190], [364], [365]
Spencer's evolutionism, correspondence between mind and matter in, [368]
cosmogony in, [188]
imprint of relations and laws upon consciousness in, [188]
matter in, [365], [367]
mind in, [365], [367]
Spheres, concentric, in Aristotle's philosophy, [328]
Sphex, paralyzing instinct in, [172]-5
Spiders and paralyzing hymenoptera, [172]
Spinal cord, [110]
Spinoza, the adequate and the inadequate, [353]
cause, [277]
dogmatism, [356], [357]
eternity, [353]
extension, [350]
God, [351], [357]
intuitionism, [347]
mechanism, [348], [352], [355], [356]
time, [362]
Spirit, [251], [269], [270]
Spirituality and materiality, [128]-9, [201]-3, [316]-7, [208]-9, [210]-1, [212]-3, [217], [218], [219], [222]-3, [237], [238], [245], [247]-8, [249], [251], [254], [256], [257], [259], [261], [267], [270]-1, [272], [276], [343]
Spontaneity of life, [86], [237].
See Freedom
and mechanism, [40]
in vegetables, [109]
and the willed order, [224]
Sport (biol.), [63]
Starch, in the function of vegetable kingdom, [114]
States of becoming, [1], [13], [163], [247]-8, [299], [300], [307]
Static character of the intellect, [155]-6, [163], [274], [298]
views of becoming, [273]
Stehasny, [124] note
Steam-engine and bronze, parallel as epoch-marking, [138]-9
Stentor and individuality, [260]
Stoics, [316]
Storing of solar energy by plants, [246], [253]-6
Strain of bow and indivisibility of motion, [308]
Stream, duration as a, [39], [338]
Structure and function. See Function and structure
identical, in divergent lines of evolution, [55], [60], [61]-2, [63], [69], [73]-4, [75], [76]-7, [83], [86], [87], [118]-9
Subject and attribute, [147]-8
Substance, albuminoid, [120]-1
continuity of living, [162]
organic, [121], [131], [140], [142], [149], [162]-3, [195]-7 note, [255], [267]
in Spinoza's philosophy, [350]
ternary substances, [121]
Substantives, adjectives, verbs, correspond to the three classes of representation, [302]-4
Substitution essential to representation of the Nought, [281], [283]-4, [289]-90, [291], [294], [296]
Success of physics, [218], [219]-20
and superiority, [133], [264]-5
Succession in time, [10], [339], [340], [341], [345]. Cf. Juxtaposition
Successors of Kant, [363], [364]
Sudden mutations, [28], [62]-3, [64]-5, [68]-9
Sun, [115], [241], [323]
Superaddition of existence upon nothingness, [276]
of order upon disorder, [236], [275]
Superimposition. See Measurement of qualities, in induction, [216]
Superiority, evolutionary, [133]-5, [173], [174]-5
Superman, [267]
Supraconsciousness, [261]
Survival of the fit, [169].
See Natural selection
Swim, learning to, as instinctive learning, [193], [194]
Symbol, the concept is a, [161], [209], [341]-2
of reality, [xi], [30]-1, [71], [88]-9, [93], [195]-6, [210], [240], [342], [360]-1, [369]-70
Symbolic knowledge of life, [199], [342], [360]
Symbolism, [176], [180], [360]
Sympathetic or intuitive knowledge, [209], [210], [342]
Sympathy, instinct is, [164], [168], [172]-8, [342]-3.
See Divination, Feeling, Inspiration
Systematic metaphysics, dilemma of, [195], [196], [230]-1
contrasted with intuitional, [191]-2, [193]-4, [238], [269], [270], [277], [346]-8
postulate of, [190], [195]
Systematization of physics, Liebniz's philosophy, [347]
Systems, isolated, [9]-13, [203], [214], [215], [241], [242], [342], [347]-9
Tangent and curve, analogy with deduction and the moral sphere, [214]
analogy with physico-chemistry and life, [31]
Tarakevitch, [124] note
Teleology. See [Finalism]
Tendency, antagonistic tendencies of life, [13], [98], [103], [113], [135], [150]
antagonistic tendencies in development of nervous system, [124]-5
complementary tendencies of life, [51], [103], [135], [150], [168], [246]
to dissociation, [260]
divergent tendencies of life, [54], [89], [99], [101], [107]-8, [109]-10, [112], [116]-8, [134], [135], [150], [181], [246], [254]-8
to individuation, [13]
life a tendency to act on inert matter, [96]
toward mobility in animals, [109], [110], [113], [127]-8, [129]-33, [135], [181], [182]
the past exists in present tendency, [5]
to reproduce, [13]
of species to change, [85]-86
mathematical symbols of tendencies, [22], [23]
toward systems, in matter, [10]
transmission of, [80]-1
a vital property is a, [13]
Tension and extension, [236], [245]
and freedom, [200]-2, [207]-8, [223], [237], [239], [300]-2
matter the inversion of vital, [239]
of personality, [199]-200, [201], [207]-8, [237], [239], [300]
Ternary substances, [121]
Theology consequent upon philosophy of ideas, [316]
Theoretic fallacies, [263], [264]
knowledge and instinct, [177], [268]
knowledge and intellect, [155], [177], [179], [238], [270], [342], [343]
Theorizing not the original function of the intellect, [154]-5
Theory of knowledge, [xiii], [178], [180], [184]-5, [197], [204], [207]-8, [209], [228]-9, [231]
of life, [xiii], [178], [180], [197]
Thermodynamics, [241]-2.
See Conservation of energy, Degradation of energy
Thesis and antithesis, [205]
Thing as distinguished from motion, [187], [202], [247]-8, [249], [299]-300
as distinguished from relation, [147], [148], [150], [152], [158]-9, [159]-60, [161], [187], [202], [352], [356]-7
and mind, [206]
as solidification operated by understanding, [249]
Thing-in-itself, [205], [206], [230]-1, [312]
Timaeus, [318] note
Time and the absolute, [240], [241], [297]-8, [339], [343]-4
abstract, [21], [22], [37], [39]
articulations of real, [331]-3
as force, [16], [45]-6, [47], [51], [103], [339]
homogeneous, [17], [18], [163]-4, [331]-3
as independent variable, [20], [335]-7
interval of, [9], [22], [23]
as invention, [341]-2
in Leibniz's philosophy, [351], [352], [362]
and logic, [4], [277]
and simultaneity, [9], [336], [337], [341]
in modern science [321]-37, [341]-5
and space in Kant, [205]
and space in ancient philosophy, [318], [319].
See Duration
Tools and intellect, [137]-41, [150]-1.
See Implement
Torpor, in evolution, [109], [111], [113], [114] note, [120], [128]-35, [181], [292]
Tortoise, Achilles and the, in Zeno, [311]
Touch, science expresses all perception as touch, [168]
is to vision as intelligence to instinct, [169]
Track laid by motion along its course, [309]-12, [337]
Transcendental Aesthetic, [203]
Transformation, [32], [72], [73], [131], [231], [263]
Transformism, [23]-5
Transition, form a snapshot view of, [301]-2, [316]-7, [318], [321], [344]-5
Transmissibility of acquired characters, [75]-84, [87], [168], [169], [172]-3, [225]-6, [230]-1
Transmission of the vital impetus, [26], [27], [79], [85], [87], [88], [93]-4, [110], [126]-7, [128], [230], [231], [246], [255], [256], [257], [259], [270]
Trigger-action of motor mechanisms,

[272]
Triton, Regeneration in, [75]
Tropism and psychical activity, [35] note
Truth seized in intuition, [318]-20
Unconscious effort, [170]
instinct, [142]-3, [144], [145]-6, [147], [166]
knowledge, [145]-8, [150]-1
Unconsciousness, two kinds of, [144]
Undefinable, reality, [13], [48]
Understanding, absoluteness of, [153]-4, [190]-1, [197]-8, [199], [200]
and action, [ix], [xi], [179]
genesis of the, [ix]-xv, [49], [189], [207]-8, [257]-9, [359], [361]-2
and geometry, [ix], [xii]
and innateness of categories, [147], [148]-9
and intuition, [46]-7
and life, [ix]-xv, [13], [32]-3, [46]-50, [88]-9, [101], [147]-8, [149], [152], [162]-5, [173]-4, [176]-7, [178], [195]-201, [213], [220], [222]-3, [224],
[226], [257]-9, [261], [266], [270], [271], [313], [361]-2, [365]
and inert matter, [166], [168], [179], [194]-5, [198], [205]-6, [207], [219], [355]
and the ready-made, [xiii], [48], [237], [250], [251], [273], [311], [321], [328]-9, [354], [358]
and the solid, [ix]
unlimited scope of the, [149], [150], [152]
See Intellect, Intelligence, Concept, Categories, Frames of the understanding, Logic
Undone, automatic and determinate evolution is action being, [249]
Unfolding cause, [73], [74]
Unforeseeableness of action, [47]
of duration, [6], [164], [340]-2
of evolution, [47], [48], [52], [86], [224]
of invention, [164]
of life, [164], [184]
and the willed order, [224], [342]-3
See Foreseeing
Unification as the function of the intellect, [152], [154], [357]-8
Uniqueness of phases of duration, [164]
Unity of extension, [154]
of knowledge, [195]-6
of life, [106]-7, [250], [268], [271]
of mental life, [268]
and multiplicity as determinations of space, [351]-3
of nature, [104]-5, [189]-90, [191], [195]-6, [197], [199], [322], [352], [356]-8
of the organism, [176]-7
of science, [195]-6, [197], [228]-9, [230], [321], [322], [344]-5, [347], [359]-60, [362]-3
Universal interaction, [188], [189]
life, consciousness coextensive with, [186], [257], [270]
Universe, continuity of, [346]
Descartes's, [346]
physical, and the idea of disorder, [233], [275]
duration of, [10], [11], [241]
evolution of, [241], [246] note
growth of, [342]-3, [344]
movement of, in Aristotle, [323]
mutability of, [244], [245]
as organism, [31], [241]
as realization of plan, [40]
rhythm of, [337], [339], [346]-7
states of, considered by science, [336], [337]
as unification of physics, [348]-9, [357]
Unknowable, the, of evolutionism, [xi]
the, in Kant, [204], [205], [206]
Unmaking, the nature of the process of materiality, [245], [248], [249], [251], [272], [342]-3
Unorganized bodies, [7]-8, [14], [20], [21], [186].
See inert matter
instruments, [137]-9, [140]-1, [150]-1
matter, cleft between, and the organized, [190], [191], [196], [197]-9
matter, imitation of the organized by, [33]-4, [35], [36]
matter and science, [194]-6
matter. See inert matter
Unwinding cause, [73]
of immutability in Greek philosophy, [325], [352]
Upspringing of invention, [164]
Utility, [4]-5, [150], [152], [154]-5, [158]-9, [160], [168], [187], [195]-6, [247]-8, [297]-8, [328]-9, [330]
Vanessa levana and Vanessa prorsa, transformation of, [72]
Variable, time as an independent, [20], [336]
Variation, accidental, [55], [63]-4, [68], [85], [168]-9
of color, in lizards, [72], [74]
by deviation, [82]-3, [84]
of evolutionary type, [23]-4, [72] note, [131]-2, [137]-8, [167], [169], [171]-2, [264]
insensible, [63], [68]
interest as cause of, [131]-2
in plants, [85]-86
Vegetable kingdom. See[ Plants]
Verb, relation expressed by, [148]
Verbs, substantives and adjectives, [303]
Verse and prose, in illustration of the two kinds of order, [221], [232]
Vertebrate, [ix], [126], [130], [131]-4, [141]
Vibrations, matter analyzed into elementary, [201]
Vicious circle, apparent, of intuitionism, [192]-4, [196]-7
of intellectualism, [194], [197], [318]-9, [320]
View, intellectual, of becoming, [4], [90]-1, [273], [298]-9, [304], [305], [310], [326]-7
intellectual, of matter, [203], [240], [250], [254], [255]
of reality, [206]
Vignon, P., [35] note
Virtual actions, [12].
See Possible action
geometry, [212]
Vise, consciousness compressed in a, [179]
Vision of God, in Alexandrian philosophy, [322]
in molluscs. See [Eye of molluscs], etc.
in Salamandra maculata, [75]
Vital activity, [134]-6, [139], [140], [166]-9, [246], [247]-8
current, [26], [27], [53]-5, [80], [85], [87], [88], [96]-105, [118]-9, [120], [230]-1, [232], [239], [257], [266], [270]
impetus, [50]-1, [53]-5, [85], [87], [88], [98]-105, [118]-9, [126]-7, [128], [131]-2, [141]-2, [148]-9, [150], [218], [230]-1, [232], [247]-8, [250],
[252], [254]-5, [261]
order, cause in, [34], [35], [94]-5, [164]
order, finality and, [223]-5, [226]
order, generalization in the, and in the mathematical order contrasted, [225], [226], [230]-1
order, and the geometrical order, [222]-3, [225], [226], [230], [231], [235], [236], [330]-1
order, imitation of physical order by vital, [230]
principle, [42], [43], [225], [226]
order, repetition in the vital and the mathematical orders contrasted, [225], [226], [230], [231]
process, [166]-7
Vitalism, [42], [43]
Void, representation of, [273], [274], [275], [277]-8, [281], [283]-4, [289]-90, [291], [292], [294], [296], [298]
Voisin, [80]
Volition and cerebral mechanism, [253]-4
Voluntary activity, [110], [252]
Vries (de), [24], [63] note, [85]
Wasps, instinct in, [140], [172]
Weapons and intellect, [137]
Weismann, [26], [78], [80]-1
Will and caprice, [47]
and cerebral mechanism, [252]
current of, penetrating matter, [237]
insertion of, into reality, [305]-6, [307]
and relaxation, [201], [207]-8
and mechanism in disorder, [233]
tension of, [199], [201], [207]-8
Willed order, mutual contingency of willed order and mathematical order, [231]-3
unforeseeability in the, [224], [342]-3
Willing, coincidence of seeing and, in intuition, [237]
Wilson, E.B., [36]
Wolff, [75] note
Words and states, [4], [302]-3
three classes of, corresponding to three classes of representation, [302]-3, [313]-4
World, intelligible, [162]-3
principle: conciousness, [237], [261]
Worms, in illustration of ambiguity of primitive organisms, [130]
Yellow-winged sphex, paralyzing instinct in, [172]
Zeno on motion, [308]-13
Zone of potentialities surrounding acts, [179]-80, [181], [264]
Zoology, [128]-9
Zoospores of algae, in illustration of mobility in plants, [112]