CONTENTS 



PAGE 



Introduction 

 PART I. THE INDIVIDUAL 



CHAPTER I. THE ORGANISM AS A NATURAL THING 



1. On Natural Things ....... 3 



(a) The Classes of Natural Things. 



2. On the Status of Natural Things ..... 4 



(a) The Passage of Nature ; (b) The Energetic Status of 

 Things ; (c) The " Making of Things ; " (d) Inanimate Things 

 that are not yet completely made ; (e) Inanimate Things that 

 are completely made. 



3. On the Characteristics of Inanimate Things ... 7 



4. On Organisms as Natural Things ..... 9 



(a) The Characteristics of Organisms. 



5. On the Organism and its Environment . . . .13 



(a) The Physical Status of the Organic Environment ; (b) The 

 Physical Status of Organisms in the Passage of Nature ; (c) The 

 Nature of the Organic Environment. 



6. On Artifacts . . . . . . . . .17 



CHAPTER 11. ORGANIC STRUCTURE 



7. Chemical 



7. On the Ultimate Chemical Structure of Organisms . 21 



(a) The Ultimate Chemistry of Inorganic Things ; (b) The 

 Ultimate Chemistry of Organisms ; (c) Water as a Natural 

 Thing ; (d) The Characteristic Elements in Organic and In- 

 organic Things, 



8. On the Chemical Compounds that compose the Bodies of 



Organisms ........ 23 



(a) Inorganic Chemical Categories ; (b) Organic Chemical 

 Categories. 



//. Morphological 



9. On Unicellular and Multicellular Organisms ... 30 



(a) The Organic Cell ; (b) The Protist Body. 



10. On the Multicellular Organism . . . . - 32 



(a) Symmetry of Parts ; (6) Integration of Parts. 



ix 



