| [A] | [B] | [C] | [D] | [E] | [F] | [G] | [H] | [I] | [J] | [K] | [L] | [M] |
| [N] | [O] | [P] | Q | [R] | [S] | [T] | [U] | [V] | [W] | X | [Y] | [Z] |
[A]
Absolute, Driesch’s theory of, [47].
Acceleration (in physics), [355].
Acquired characters induced by the environment, [216];
a means of transformism, [220];
evidence of transmission scanty, [225];
transmission not inconceivable, [226].
Actions, categories of, and consciousness, [282];
deliberative, [283];
mechanistic hypothesis of, [157];
stereotyped, [283];
at a distance, [304].
Activation of the ovum, [176].
Adaptability, indicative of dominance, [258].
Adaptation, [217];
and acquired characters, [219];
and changes of morphology and function, [219];
not inherited, [220];
causes of, [239].
Adaptive response, [219].
Adiabatic changes, [361].
Aggregates, molecular, [353].
Algæ, distribution of, [260].
Allelomorphs, Mendelian, [231].
Alternation of generations, [175].
Amido-substances, [88].
Anabolism, [88].
Anatomical parts, homologies of, [251].
Animal action, considered objectively, [278].
Animal and plant contrasted, [269].
Animality, [269].
Annectant forms of life, [253].
Annelids, morphology of, [248].
Anthropomorphism in theories of action, [148].
Anti-enzymes, [94].
Antitoxins, [36].
Ants, a dominant group, [260].
Appendix vermiformis, [250].
Approximation, standards of, [347].
Armoured animals, [263].
Arthropods, morphology of, [249];
a dominant group, [259];
distribution, [260];
musculature of, [275];
adaptations for mobility, [275];
limits to size of, [275].
Assimilation, [67].
Atoms, constitution of, [355];
arrangements of, [353].
Automatism of animals deduced from mechanistic theories, [280].
Autonomy in development, [322].
Available energy, [62];
and entropy, [374].
[B]
Bacteria, a dominant group, [259];
distribution, [259];
geological history, [259], [261];
morphology, [268];
metabolism, [266];
specialisation, [263];
parasitism, [259];
nitrogen, [73];
prototrophic, [119], [266];
paratrophic, [266];
putrefactive, [266];
fermentation, [266];
and Brownian movements, [119];
compensatory to plants, [267].
Bergson, [28];
creative evolution, [244];
duration, [154];
animals and plants, [78];
eye of Pecten, [234];
inert matter, [375];
infinitesimal analysis of the organism, [111];
kinematographic analysis, [110];
theory of intellectualism, [51];
memory, [156];
morphological themes, [250];
theory of pain, [281];
theory of perception, [7], [10];
the vital impetus, [318].
Biology, systematic, [201], [203].
Biophors, [132];
size of, [183];
growth of, [185].
Biotic energy, [325].
Borelli and animal mechanism, [125].
Brownian movement, [118];
significance of, [119].
Bryan and thermodynamics, [62].
Bud-formation, [165].
[C]
Calculus, infinitesimal, [25], [115], [350].
Calorimetric experiments, [65], [68].
Capacity-energy factors, [61].
Carnot’s cycle, [69], [78], [113];
negative, [368];
description of, [363], [366];
compared with plant metabolism, [75];
compared with the organism, [73].
Catalysis, [90];
universality of, [91].
Catalysts, characters of, [91].
Categories of organisms, [209].
Central nervous system, specialisation of, [273];
a switchboard, [273];
evolution of, parallel with evolution of muscular system, [281].
Chance in evolution, [237].
Chemical affinity, [361].
Chemical energy, degradation of, [75].
Chemical reactions, direction of, [78];
exothermic, [86];
explosive, [86];
similar in organic and inorganic systems, [78].
Chemical synthesis, involve vital activity, [318].
Chemistry, medieval, [125].
Chlorophyll, [69].
Chlorophyllian organisms, [88];
metabolism of, [265];
a dominant group, [259];
essential morphology of, [268];
distribution of, [260].
Chromatin of the nucleus, [130];
the material basis of inheritance, [182].
Chromosomes, [130], [182], [183].
Classification of organisms, [209].
Classificatory systems, are artificial arrangements, [289];
suggest evolutionary process, [210].
Clausius, [54];
and Carnot’s Law, [113].
Cœlenterates, morphology of, [248].
Cœlomate animals, [256].
Colloidal platinum, [91].
Colloids, [107].
Colonial organisms, [164].
Comparative anatomy, task of, [251].
Compensatory energy-transformations effected by life, [309].
Conjugation, [173];
and heredity, [176];
a stimulus to growth, [175].
Consciousness involves analysis of the environment, [11];
analysis of, is an arbitrary process, [12];
a feeling of normality, [6];
a part of crude sensation, [40];
simplified by reasoning, [41];
an intensive multiplicity, [303];
degree of, is parallel to development of sensori-motor system, [280];
not existent outside ourselves, [278];
not a function of chemico-physical mechanism, [160];
intense in difficultly performed operations, [281];
and activity of cerebral cortex, [281];
absent in parasites, [291].
Conservation a test of reality, [357].
Conservation of energy, [52];
in organisms, [83].
Conservation of structure, [253], [256].
Constants, mathematical, [344].
Continuity of cells in embryo, [171].
Contractility, [100];
muscular, [103].
Co-ordinates, systems of, [23].
Corals, [164].
Cosmic evolution, [314];
is a tendency towards degradation of energy, [316].
Creation, special, [214].
Curvature, [27].
Curves, isothermal and adiabatic, [362].
Cuttle-fishes, [250].
Cytoplasm, [130].
[D]
Darwin, and natural selection, [221];
acquired characters are inherited, [220];
hypothesis of pangenesis, [181].
Death, is catastrophic katabolism, [340].
Degradation of energy, [81].
Deliberation and consciousness, [281].
Demons, Maxwell’s, [116].
Descartes and mechanism, [121];
the rational soul, [123], [318];
his physiology, [122];
his spiritualism, [124];
and animal automatism, [125].
Descent, collateral, [257].
Determinants in embryology, [132], [183];
arrangement of, [184];
latent in regenerative processes, [142].
Development, organisation in, [128];
parthenogenetic, [176];
reverses inorganic tendencies, [324];
impossibility of chemical hypotheses, [141];
is the assumption of a mosaic structure, [301];
blastula stage in, [129];
gastrula stage in, [130];
pluteus stage in, [140];
individual, [300].
Developmental systems prospective value of, [138];
prospective potency of, [138].
Diatoms, [163];
distribution of, [260].
Differential elements, [115].
Differentiation in development, [170].
Diffusion in the animal body, [95].
Digestion, [67];
chemistry of, [72].
Dinosaurs, an unsuccessful line of evolution, [275].
Dissipation of energy, [114];
in physical mechanisms, [59];
by the organism, [68], [79].
Distribution of organisms, [262];
limits to, [259];
indicative of dominance, [258].
Diversity, physical, [54];
effective and ineffective, [115].
Dominance in geological time, [258];
implies long geological history, [261];
Mendelian, [196].
Dominant organisms, [258], [259], [264].
Driesch natural selection, [229];
analytical definition of the organism, [331];
entelechy, [318];
experimental embryology, [134];
historical basis of reacting, [154];
logical proof of vitalism, [136];
proof of vitalism from behaviour, [153];
theory of the absolute, [47].
Duration, [28];
duration and time illustrated, [30];
illustrated by immunity, [35];
more than memory, [155];
a factor in responding, [155].
[E]
Ecdysis, [276].
Echinoderms, morphology of, [248].
Ectoderm, [177].
Effector organs, [158], [271].
Élan vital, [161].
Electromagnetism, [355].
Electrons, [304], [355].
Elimination, natural, [229].
Embryological stages compared with physical phases, [308].
Embryology, [127];
hypotheses of, [128];
physical hypotheses fail, [128];
experimental, [128];
suggests phylogenetic history, [213].
Emulsoids, [108].
Endoskeleton, [177], [276].
Energetics, first law of, [51];
second law of, [113].
Energy, [356];
available and unavailable, [55];
biotic, [325];
chemical, [61];
and causation, [54];
degradation of, [63];
dissipation of, [53];
electrical, [61];
forms of, [325];
kinetic, [52], [357];
mechanical, [60], [61];
potential, [53], [358];
of position, [360].
Energy-transformations, [54], [371];
anabolic, [89];
in the animal, [70];
compensatory, [88];
compensatory organic, [268];
irreversible, [59];
in physical mechanisms, [58];
in the plant, [71].
Engelmann, and the artificial muscle, [105].
Entelechy, [161], [318];
not energy, [329];
is power of direction, [329];
not spatial but acts into space, [330];
an intensive manifoldness, [330];
is arrangement, [323];
involves regulations, [323];
arrests inorganic happening, [327];
initiates chemical happening, [327];
compared with enzyme action, [327];
illustrated by analogy, [322].
Entropy, [54];
augmentation of, [75];
and Carnot engine, [369].
Environment, does not select variations, [235];
made by the organism, [236].
Enzymes, [90];
nature of, [92];
pancreatic, [93];
reversible, [93];
activation of, [92].
Enzyme activity, [93].
Epigenesis in development, [129].
Equilibrium, chemical, [102].
false, [86], [151].
Ether of space, [46], [304], [361];
potential energy resides in, [361].
Evolution tendencies of, [252], [264], [276], [295];
separation of tendencies, [296];
a transformation of intensive into extensive manifoldness, [309];
a dissociation of tendencies originally coalescent, [305];
increases diversity, [310];
segregates energy, [311];
compared with permutations and combinations, [301];
a series of phases in a transforming system, [298];
a logical hypothesis, [214];
parallel processes in, [234];
geological time inadequate for, [237];
side paths in, [262];
mechanistic hypotheses inadequate, [237];
cosmic, [214], [297], [314];
of the crust of the earth, [264].
Excretory products, [269].
Exoskeleton, [276].
Exothermic reactions, [86].
Experience and duration, [156].
Experimental biology proves evolution, [246].
Explosive reactions, [101].
Extension in space, [18].
Extinct groups, [263].
[F]
Fats, digestion of, [93].
Fecundity of animals, [179], [239].
Ferments, [92].
Fertilisation (in reproduction), [176].
Finalism, [216].
Fishes, distribution of, [261].
Fluctuating variations, [200].
Food-stuffs, absorption of, [89].
Force, [354].
Form, accidental and essential, [167], [353];
geological, [168];
crystalline, [168].
Frequency distributions, [22], [187], [350].
Frog, development of egg of, [131].
Functionality, [343];
in physical systems, [307].
[G]
Galvanotropism, [145].
Gases, compression of, [362];
kinetic theory of, [117], [361].
Gastrea-theory, [177];
illustrated, [255];
limitations of, [256].
Genera, stability of, [186].
Geometry, Cartesian, [25];
Euclidean, [19], [25];
perceptual and conceptual limits, [21].
Geotropism, [144].
Germ-cells, [175];
and soma, [179].
Germinal selection, [241].
Germ-layers, [177];
theory of, [256].
Germ-plasm, a mixture, [240];
stability of, [240].
Givenness, [47].
Gonads, [179].
Growth law of, in the organism, [172];
by accretion, [169];
by ecdysis, [276];
geometrical, [169];
physical, [167];
of crystals, [167];
and differentiation, [170];
variability of, [172].
[H]
Haeckel, the Gastrea-Theorie, [177], [254].
Harmonic analysis, [11].
Harvey, and the circulation of the blood, [121].
Heat, flow of, [117];
production of, in physical changes, [114].
Heliotropism, [144].
Heredity, [181].
Hertzian waves, [355].
Homoiothermic animals, [67].
Hormones, [225].
Human activity, tends to arrest dissipation of energy, [312].
Huxley, [84];
and mechanistic biology, [127];
and the physical basis of life, [113];
and mechanism, [106];
and universal mathematics, [215].
Hybrids, Mendelian, [196];
infertility of, [195];
between Linnean species, [194].
Hydra, regeneration of, [162].
[I]
Idants, [183].
Idealism founded on pure reasoning, [45];
of Berkeley, [45].
Ids, [183].
Immunity, [35].
Individual, [162];
definition of, [167].
Individuality, orders of, [163];
physical concept of, [165];
morphologically an artificial concept, [166];
in societies, [171].
Inertia, [354].
Infinity, a definition of, [342].
Inorganic happening abolishes diversity, [310].
Instinct, a problem for naturalists, [283];
an inheritable adaptation of behaviour, [287].
Instinct and intelligence, [283];
distinction not absolute, [294];
may coexist, [306].
Instinct and functioning, [286].
Instinctive actions not necessarily unconscious, [283];
not learned, [286];
not necessarily perfect, [284];
effective from the first, [285];
capable of improvement, [285].
Intelligent actions, non-inheritable adaptations of behaviour, [287];
involve deliberation, [50], [287];
involve conscious relations with the environment, [288];
involve use of tools, [284].
Intensity-factors, [61].
Intensive multiplicity, [303].
Irreversibility, [62].
Irritability, [100].
Isothermal changes, [361].
[J]
James, William (and academic philosophies), [80].
Jennings, and physiological states, [154];
behaviour of Protozoa, [293];
animal movements, [149];
the avoiding reaction,
[149].
[K] Katabolism, [90].
Kinases, [92].
Kinematographic analysis, [316].
[L]
Lamarck, hypotheses of evolution, [220].
Lamarckian inheritance, an inadequate cause of transformism, [227].
Lankester, acquired characters not inherited, [221].
Laplace, and universal mathematics, [215].
Laplacian mind, [299].
Larval stages, [170].
Latency (of characters), [195].
Lavoisier, and chemistry of the organism, [127].
Life and adaptation to physical conditions, [338];
and reversibility, [339];
a direction of energies, [341];
defined energetically, [337];
cosmic origin of, [338];
physical conditions for, [338];
limited in power, [306];
sparsity of, on the earth, [306];
tends to arrest dissipation of energy, [314];
its origin a pseudo-problem, [337].
Life-substance, the primitive, [301].
Locomotion, [258].
Loeb and the associative memory, [155];
and artificial parthenogenesis, [176];
mechanism and life, [127];
stereotropism, [19];
theory of tropisms, [144];
tropistic movements, [146];
theories of heredity, [181].
Limit, the mathematical, [346].
Limits to perceptual activity, [23].
Links, missing, [252].
Linnean species, [201].
[M]
Manifoldness, intensive, [302].
Mass, [353].
Mass action, [140].
Materialism, [85].
Mathematics, evades consideration of time, [35].
Matter, [353];
inert, [375];
notion of is an intuitive one, [352].
Maxwell, and sorting demons, [116], [377].
Mayow, and chemical physiology, [126].
Mechanical work, done by the animal, [67];
not done by the plant, [71].
Mechanism, organic and inorganic, [78];
the thermodynamic, [66];
radical, [215];
in life, [121].
Membranes, semi-permeable, [95].
Memory, [39];
a possible cerebral mechanism of, [158];
mechanistic hypotheses impossible, [157].
Mendelism, [196];
a logical hypothesis, [199];
terminology is a symbolism, [198];
analogy of unit characters with chemical radicles, [197];
transmission of characters of, [230].
Mesoderm, [177];
origin of, [255].
Metabolism, [37], [88], [209];
analytic, [269];
of animals, [65], [67];
constructive, [269];
destructive, [269];
direction of, [69];
in green plant, [70], [75];
intra-cellular, [99];
integration of its activities, [111];
rôle of oxygen in, [105];
specialisation of during evolution, [305];
synthetic, [269].
Metaphysics of science, [45].
Metazoan animals, [162].
Mitosis, [182].
Mobility, organic, [269];
structural adaptations tending to, [275].
Modifications of structure adaptive and non-adaptive, [251].
Molecules, [353];
size of, [116];
in a gas, [115];
aggregations of, [108].
Molluscs, morphology of, [249].
Morgan, and physico-chemical mechanisms, [128], [143].
Morphogenesis, [257].
Morphological evolution, tendencies of, [295].
Morphological structures degeneration of, [251];
suppression of, [250];
coalescence of, [250];
replacement of, [250];
specialisation of, [250];
change of function of, [251].
Morphology, [209];
a basis of classification, [210];
relates groups of organisms, [211];
distinctions of, not absolute, [285], [290];
generalised, [250];
suggests blood relationships, [213];
schemata of, [249], [291];
cannot be considered apart from physiology, [285].
Mosaic-theory of development, [131].
Motion not an intellectual concept, [27];
not considered in Euclidean or Cartesian geometry, [26];
bodily motion is absolute, [24];
outside ourselves is relative, [24].
Motor-habits, [38], [155].
Multicellular organisms, evolution of, [223].
Muscular contraction, [104];
metabolism in, [104];
heat production in, [104].
Muscular and nervous organs, [275].
Musculature and weight of body, [275].
Mutations, [189];
essential nature of, [193];
causes of, [200];
must be co-ordinated, [231];
physical model of, [192];
the material for selection, [230].
[N]
Nägeli, and autonomy in development, [160].
Natural selection, [228];
generality of, [229];
a slow process, [230].
Nebulæ, [315].
Nebular hypothesis, [296].
Nerve impulses, [100];
velocity of, [101];
integration of, [273].
Nervous system, [272];
in co-ordination of activities, [171];
paths in, [157].
Nervous activity, [107];
metabolism in, [107];
electric changes in, [107];
influence of metabolism on, [97].
Nothing, a pseudo-idea, [18].
Nucleus, evolution of, [222];
division of, [130], [182].
[O]
Ontogenetic stages, [255].
Orders of individuality, [171].
Organism, definition of, [331];
analysis of its activities, [109];
animal and plant, [76];
considered energetically, [77];
the dominant, [258];
a function of the environment, [216];
a mechanism, [51];
the primitive, [222];
a physico-chemical system, [65];
a thermodynamic mechanism, [104].
Organic chemical syntheses, [317].
Organisation in development, [137].
Organ-rudiments, [257].
Osmosis, [95], [99].
Ostracoderms, [291].
Ostwald on catalysis, [91].
Ovum, development of, [129];
maturation of, [198], [239];
an intensive manifoldness, [302].
Oxidases, [105].
Oxygen in metabolism, [69].
[P]
Pain, Bergson on, [281].
Palæontology, [210];
relates groups of organisms, [211].
Pangenesis, [181].
Paramœcium, division of, [173], [175];
responses of, [4].
Parasitism, [259];
tends to immobility, [290].
Parthenogenesis, [176];
artificial, [176].
Particles, [356].
Pecten, eye of, [233].
Perception
not merely physical stimulation, [7];
involves effector activity, [7];
involves deliberative action, [9];
arises from acting, [50];
and choice of response, [155];
is unfamiliar cerebral activity, [8];
skeletonises consciousness, [40].
Peridinians, [77], [163];
distribution of, [260].
Personal equation, [45].
Personality, [167];
an intuition, [167];
division of, [173];
is absolute, [48].
Pflüger, and experimental embryology, [131].
Phases in physical systems and organic systems, [321];
in transforming systems, [308].
Phenomenalism, [46].
Photosynthesis, [70], [76], [86].
Phototaxis, [144].
Phyla
animal, [247];
morphology of, [247];
relations between, [252];
ancestries of, [252].
Phylogenies, [253];
are summaries of morphological results, [254];
indicative of directions of evolution, [254];
criteria of, [253].
Phylogeny, [246].
Phylum, [210].
Physical basis of life, [84].
Physico-chemical reactions, [80];
are directed, [118];
the means of development and behaviour in the organism, [160].
Physico-psychical parallelism, [160].
Physics, a statistical science, [116], [377].
Physiology
Galenic, [122];
an analysis of organic activity, [120], [328].
Plants, geological history of, [261];
characterised by immobility, [277];
contrasted with animals, [277].
Platonic ideas, [204].
Platyhelminths, morphology of, [248].
Poikilothermic animals, [68].
Poincaré, and Brownian movement, [119].
Polar bodies, [198].
Polyzoa, [164].
Porifera, [248].
Potential, [61].
Potential energy, [58], [114].
Preformation an embryological hypothesis, [128].
Probability, [350].
Proteids, digestion of, [90].
Proto-forms, [254].
Protoplasm, nature of, [106];
artificial, [106];
disintegration of, [107];
activities of, [107];
similar in plant and animal, [294].
Protozoa, [247];
behaviour of, [293].
Pterodactyls, [274].
[R]
Races (in specific groups), [194].
Radiation, [355];
of sun, [51];
transformation of energy of, [57].
Radio-activity, [56], [359].
Reality, objective, [43].
Reception, [3];
organs of, [271];
by specialised sense-organs, [11].
Recessiveness, Mendelian, [196].
Reflex action, [4], [272];
concatenated, [150];
a complex series of actions, [6];
not necessarily accompanied by perception, [155];
the basis of instincts, [150];
a schematic description, [5];
in decapitated frog, [6];
frictionless cerebral activity, [8];
involves a limited part of the environment, [50].
Reflex arcs, [272].
Regeneration, [142];
in Hydra, [164];
in sea-urchin embryo, [164];
in Planaria, [164].
Regression, [189].
Reinke, and structure of protoplasm, [106].
Reintegration in development, [171].
Rejuvenescence, [175].
Releasing agencies, [157].
Reproduction, [167];
asexual, [175];
by brood-formation, [173];
by conjugation, [173];
sexual, [174];
by division, [172];
compared with minting machine, [242];
of the tissues, [180].
Responses of organisms, [217];
directed, [269];
of magnet, [279];
of green plant, [279].
Reversibility, physical, [369].
Rodewald, chemical nature of protoplasm, [106].
Roux, experimental embryology, [131];
development the production of a visible manifoldness, [307].
[S]
Saliva, secretion of, [96].
Salivary glands, metabolism of, [96].
Salivary secretion, not a purely mechanistic process, [112].
Sea, not really rich in life, [306].
Sea-urchin gastrula, [170].
Secretion described mechanistically, [98].
Secretion, psychical, [99].
Segmentation of the ovum, [129].
Selection, natural, [228];
from fluctuating variations, [189];
from mutations, [190].
Semon, mnemic hypothesis of heredity, [181].
Senescence, [175].
Sensation, [2];
analysis of, [13].
Sense-receptors and the idea of matter, [352].
Sensori-motor system, [270];
dominant in animals, [271], [273];
specialisation of, [271], [273];
essentially the same in all animals, [294];
absent in plants, [269];
vestigial in some parasites, [290].
Sexuality, [174].
Siphonophores, regeneration in, [163].
Size of animals, [274].
Skeleton of vertebrates, [276];
of arthropods, [276];
and mobility, [276].
Soddy, and chemical energy, [361].
Soma, [179];
evolution of, [223].
Space, form of, [18];
3-dimensional, [18];
3-dimensional space an intuition, [19];
2-dimensional, [19];
the form of, depends on modes of activity, [21], [25].
Species, are categories of structure, [201];
comparison with Platonic ideas, [204];
criteria of, [202];
elementary, [193];
are intellectual constructions, [203];
individuality of, [203];
Linnean, [201], [289];
are phases in an evolutionary flux, [206];
are families in the human sense, [208];
systematic, [201].
Specific organisation, stability of, [186].
Stahl, and the phlogistic hypothesis, [126];
and vitalism, [126].
Stimuli, elemental, [151];
physico-chemical, [151];
formative, [176];
complex auditory, [152];
integration of, [152];
individualised, [152], [270];
contractile, [103].
Stimulus and response, functionality of, [152].
Substantia physica, [46], [355].
Surface tension, [105], [106].
Suspensoids, [108].
Sylvius, the organism a chemical mechanism, [125].
Symbiosis, [77].
Symbiotic organisms, [88].
Synapses, in central nervous system, [158], [272].
Synthetic chemistry, [236], [317].
System, isolated, [63].
Systems in development
equipotential, [139];
harmonious equipotential, [139];
complex equipotential, [140].
[T]
Taxis, [144];
no perception in, [155].
Telegraphy, wireless, [355].
Temperature of sun, [56];
of space, [57].
Thermodynamics, [51];
1st law of, [51];
2nd law of, [54], [63], [309], [316];
and Maxwell’s demons, [118];
laws of subject to limitations, [115].
Thermodynamical mechanism, the organism not a, [69].
Thomson, W., dissipation of energy, [113].
Time a series of standard events, [28];
astronomical, [34];
time differentials, [34].
Tissues, evolution of, [223].
Tools, nature of, [285];
use of must be learned, [285];
bodily, [285].
Toxins, [36].
Transformism, [213].
Trematodes, larval stages of, [165].
Trial and error, [293];
in reasoning, [293];
a hypothesis of animal movements, [150].
Trigger reactions, [87].
Trilobites, an ancient group, [261].
Tropisms, [144];
in plants, [269], [279];
in moths, [280];
and natural selection, [147];
and movements of caterpillars, [146];
an inadequate basis for a theory of animal movements, [147].
Tunicates, suppressed notochord of, [250].
[U]
Unavailable energy and entropy, [375];
tendency to increase of, [375].
Unicellular organisms, energy-transformations in, [177].
Unit-characters, [230].
[V]
Van’t Hoff’s law, [218].
Variability, [172], [186];
continuous, [188];
discontinuous, [188];
examples of, [187];
and the environment, [189];
independent of the environment, [239];
and growth, [188];
tendencies of, [235].
Variation, rate of (mathematical), [344];
in biology, [186];
atavistic, [195];
direction of, [233];
fluctuating, [189];
must be co-ordinated, [231];
mathematical probability of co-ordination of 233;
the material for selection, [229];
origin of, [230];
selected by the organism, [237];
cause of, a pseudo-problem, [242];
arise de novo, [244].
Variables (mathematical), [343].
Varieties, specific, [194].
Vegetable life, [265].
Vertebrates, [249];
adaptations securing mobility, [275];
ancestry of, [253];
morphology of, [249];
a dominant group, [259];
distribution of, [260].
Verworn, and mechanism in life, [127].
Vesalius, anatomical school of, [121].
Vital activities, integration of, [128];
co-ordination of, [171].
de Vries and mutations, [191];
fluctuating variations inherited,
[220].
Vital force, [318].
Van der Waal’s equation, [308].
[W]
Weber’s law, [16];
a quasi-mathematical relation, [17].
Weismann, hypothesis of heredity, [182];
hypothesis of germinal selection, [241];
hypothesis of development, [132];
mosaic-theory, [131];
preformation hypothesis, [133];
hypothesis of the germ-plasm, continuity of the germ-plasm, [181];
germinal changes inconceivable, [224];
size of biophors, [183];
origin of life, [339];
spontaneous generation a logical necessity, [339].
Weismannism, a series of logical hypotheses, [320];
physico-chemical analogies, and subsidiary hypotheses, [223].
Whales, an unsuccessful line of evolution, [274].
Whitehead, and mathematical reasoning, [347].
Wilson, mosaic-theory of development, [139].
[Y]
Yerkes, and behaviour of crustacea, [293].
[Z]
Zymogens, [92].
Zymoids, [94].
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FOOTNOTES:
[1] All this is, of course, the argument of Bergson’s earlier books, Matière et Mémoire and Données immédiates de la Conscience.