The Breath of Life

by John Burroughs

• Naegeli, Karl Wilhelm von, [217].
• Nitrogen, [51].
• Nonentities, [99], [100].

• Odors, [198], [199].
• Osmotic growths, [167], [168].
• Oxygen, activities of, [51], [52], [59];
  • in the crust of the earth, [193];
  • chemical affinities, [193]-[195];
  • different forms of atoms, [200].

• Parker, Theodore, on the universe, [280].
• Parthenogenesis, artificial, [11], [74].
• Pasteur, Louis, his "dissymmetric force," [22], [32].
• Philosophy, supplements science, [94]-[96], [104], [109], [163], [164];
  • deals with fundamental problems, [242], [243];
  • contradictions in, [254]-[258].
• Phosphorus, [59], [60].
• Physics, staggering figures in, [192].
• Pitch lake, [123].
• Plants, force exerted by growing, [17]-[20].
• Plasmogen, [145], [146].
• Plastidules, [217].
• Protobion, [135].
• Protoplasm, vitality of, [169];
  • creative, [286].

• Radio-activity, [66]-[70], [132].
• Radium, [61], [201].
  • See also Beta rays.
• Rainbow, [70].
• Ramsay, Sir William, [191], [192].
• Rand, Herbert W., on the mechanistic view of life, [89], [90].
• Russia, [250], [251].

• Salt, crystallization, [276], [277].
• Schäfer, Sir Edward Albert, [73];
  • his mechanistic view of life, [133]-[138].
• Science, delicacy of its methods and implements, [60], [61];
  • limitations of its field, [94]-[100], [104];
  • cannot deal with life except as a physical phenomenon, [161], [162];
  • does not embrace the whole of human life, [162], [163];
  • inadequacy, [163]-[166];
  • cannot grasp the mystery of life, [173], [175], [176], [234]-[236];
  • cannot deal with fundamental problems, [242], [243];
  • concerns itself with matter only, [264];
  • inevitably mechanistic, [265], [266];
  • views the universe as one, [267], [268], [271]-[274];
  • the redeemer of the physical world, [269]-[271], [276];
  • spiritual insight gained through, [278].
• Sea-urchins, Loeb's experiments, [147].
• Seed, growth of, [217], [218].
• Soddy, Frederick, [46], [66];
  • on vital force, [133];
  • on rainbows and rabbits, [174];
  • on the relation of life to energy, [177]-[180];
  • on the atom, [197], [198];
  • on atomic energy, [204].
• Spencer, Herbert, [218], [240];
  • quoted, [15], [16];
  • on the origin of life, [26];
  • on vital capital, [34], [35].
• Spirit, common view of, [274], [275].
• Spirituality, evolution of, [284].
• Sugar, grape, [208].
• Sunflower, wild, force exerted by, [19].

• Thomson, J. Arthur, [270].
• Thomson, Sir J. J., on electrons, [197];
  • photographing atoms, [199], [200].
• Tropisms, [11].
• Tyndall, John, his view of life, [28]-[30], [160], [162], [231];
  • his "molecular force," [42], [133];
  • his Belfast Address, [64], [219];
  • and the "miracle of vitality," [105];
  • on energy, [161];
  • on growth from the germ, [217];
  • an idealist, [219], [220];
  • on Goethe, [221];
  • on matter, [260];
  • on crystallisation of salt, [276], [277];
  • on incipient life in inorganic nature, [277].

• Universe, the, oneness of, [267], [268];
  • a view of, [289].
• Uranium, [67].

• Verworn, Max, [25], [79], [146];
  • his view of life, [30], [31], [73];
  • his term for vital force, [145].
• Vital force, constructive, [7], [38];
  • inventive and creative, [7];
  • resisting repose, [40];
  • as a postulate, [99]-[103];
  • its existence denied by science, [133];
  • convenience of the term, [144];
  • other names, [144]-[146].
  • See also Life.
• Vitalism, making headway, [32];
  • reason for, [71], [72];
  • Moore's scientific vitalism, [106]-[112];
  • type of mind believing in, [218]-[223].
  • See also Life.
• Vitality, the question of its reality, [140]-[143];
  • degrees of, [241], [242].
  • See also Life.

• War of 1914, [248]-[251].
• Water-power, and electricity, [67], [68].
• Weismann, August, [217].
• Whitman, Walt, quoted, [14], [48], [110], [256], [260].
• Wilson, Edmund Beecher, on the cell, [95].

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