vi SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY OF THE ORGANISM 



shortened, revised, and, as I hope, improved account of what 

 was published in my Analytische Theorie der organischen 

 Entwickdung (1894), Die Localisation morphogenetischer 

 Vorgange ; ein Beweis Vitalistisclien Geschehens (1899), and 

 Die organischen Eegidationen (1901), though for the pro- 

 fessed biologist the two last-named books are by no means 

 superseded by the new work. Part II. has never been 

 published in any systematic form before, though there are 

 many remarks on Systematics, Darwinism, etc., in my 

 previous papers. 



The second volume to be published in the autumn, 

 after the delivery of the 1908 lectures will begin with 

 the third and concluding part of the scientific section, which 

 is a very carefully revised and rearranged second edition of 

 my book, Die "Seele' als elementarer Naturfactor (1903). 

 The greater part of this volume, however, will be devoted 

 to the " Philosophy of the Organism," i.e. Section B, which, in 

 my opinion, includes the most important parts of the work. 



Some apology is needed for my presuming to write in 

 English. I was led to do so by the conviction, mistaken 

 perhaps, that the process of translation would rob the 

 lectures of that individual and personal character which, as 

 I said before, seems to me so much to be desired. I wished 

 nothing to come between me and my audience. I accord- 

 ingly wrote my manuscript in English, and then submitted 

 it to linguistic revision by such skilled aid as I was able to 

 procure at Heidelberg. My reviser tells me that if the 

 result of his labours leaves much to be desired, it is not to 

 be wondered at, but that, being neither a biologist nor a 



