Contents 



PAGE 



Preface iii 



Introduction ... v 



CHAPTER 



1. How Did Life Originate? 1 



2. The Smallest Particles of Matter 9 



3. How Molecules Make Masses 41 



4. The Importance of "Impurities" and Trace Sub- 



stances 64 



5. What Are Living Units? 79 



6. Catalysis, The Guide of Life 90 



7. Immunology and Self-Saving Catalysts 140 



8. Genetics: The Heritable Transmission of Catalysts 154 



9. The Catalyst Entelechy in Differentiation and 



Morphogenesis 179 



10. Some Catalytic Aspects of Disease and Drugs 215 



1 1 . Catalysis As the Efficient Cause of Evolution .... 246 



12. Philosophy, the Guide of Mental Life 259 



Author's Note 277 



Author Index 279 



Subject Index 286 



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