INDEX 



Absolute Values as wholes, 107 

 Absolutists and "the whole," 100, 

 102, no; their sterile monism, 108 

 Abstraction, the error of, 15, 20, 27 

 Acceleration and gravitation, equiva- 

 lent expressions, 28-9, 30 

 Acquired characters, inheritance of, 



19.4, 201 



Acquired experience, inheritance of, 

 205 n. 



Action, the physical basis of the uni- 

 verse, 31, 41, ^4, SI, 56, 326, 327, 

 328; its structural character, 41-2, 



44, 327 

 Adsorption, 46 



Alchemists, their guesses not far 

 from the truth, 42-3 



Alga and fern, possible bridge be- 

 tween, 74-s 



Algonkian mountains, age of, 42 



Alternation of generations, basis of, 



73-4 



Analysis, the error of, 19-20, 27 



Anaxagoras, 229 



Aniline dyes, 57 



Animals: the psychical development 

 manifested in Sexual Selection, 13- 

 14; pl'ants and, their similarities 

 and divergences, 70, 71, 73, 75; 

 co-ordination and self-regulation 

 in, 77, 82, 105, 106, 230, 231; 

 power of self-healing in, 80-81 ; re- 

 garded as wholes, 82, 83, 105, 106; 

 animals and humans, heredity and 

 educability, 252, 274 



Armstrong, Dr. E. F., 47 



Artistic creations as wholes, 98, 105-6 



Associative memory of white mice, 

 experiments on, 205 n. 



Atom, the, 37, 40, 61, 71, 83-4, 97, 

 173; importance of placing and 

 spacing>bf atoms, 37-8; not static 

 but active in the Space-Time con- 

 tinuum, 38; the conquests of the 

 New Physics, 38-9; theory of 



Rutherford and Bohr, 39-41; 

 nucleus, electrons, and quanta of 

 radiation, 39-40, 41, 49; its plane- 

 tary structure, 39, 40, 45, 48, 83-4 ; 

 the proton, 40, 41 ; as a potential 

 source of energy, 42 ; the artifi- 

 cial breaking up of matter and 

 the transmutation of metals, 42-3 ; 

 external properties dependent on 

 internal structure, 43-4; the basis 

 of the hypothesis of its struc- 

 ture, 48-50; a creation of Hohsm, 

 128, 153, 228, 229, 319-20; dis- 

 continuity in its structure, 331 



Atomic numbers, 40-41 



Attention, development of power of, 

 236, 237, 240, 241 



Baly, Professor, 69 



Beauty, its hoUstic basis, 221, 222 



Becquerel, 23, 38 



Bergson: his philosophy of Evolu- 

 tion summarised and examined, 

 92-5 ; the principle of Duration, 

 92-3, 94, 95, 99, lis; the Intel- 

 lect, 93-4, 95, III 



Berkeley, 270, 272 



Bio-chemical mechanisms, 151 



Bio-chemical wholes, 151-2, 154, 168, 

 169. See Organisms. 



Bio-chemistry, recent advances in, 72 



Biographies as aids to the science of 

 Personology, 284-9, 294 



Biological wholes, 100, loi, 104 



Biology: and a new concept of life, 

 3, 5; Mechanism and, 4, 5, 11, 

 109, 113-14, 121; latest advances 

 in, 5, 7; new syntheses more im- 

 portant than specialisation, 5, 7, 

 11; Sexual Selection in Organic 

 Evolution, 14; its study of Evolu- 

 tion and the cell, 61 ; value of the 

 concept of the whole to, no, 221, 

 259; value of the concept of 



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