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INDEX 



"fields" to, 113-16; Vitalism and, 

 160; the germ-cell theory of 

 Variation, 190, 197-203; Mendel- 

 ism, 194, 195-6; Personality com- 

 pared to biological sports, 276 



Body, the: needless confusion over 

 interaction of mind and, 157, 158; 

 early Christian controversy on 

 immortality, 158; Descartes and 

 the relation of mind and, 161, 163, 

 170; the laws of thermodynamics 

 and the principles of mind and, 

 163-70; Holism on the action of 

 "life" on, 172-81; the Subject- 

 Object relation of mind and, 239; 

 in relation to Personality, 264-7, 

 279, 280; relations of spirit and, 

 264, 266-7; conventionally de- 

 graded by morbid religious spirit, 

 265; rehabilitated by modern sci- 

 ence, 266; relation of mind and, in 

 Personahty, 267-71 



Body-cells differentiated from germ- 

 cells, 198-9, 201 ; possible recipro- 

 cal influence of body-cells and 

 germ-cells, 203, 204, 205, 206, 219 



Bohr, Professor Niels, 39 



Bower, Professor F. O., 207 n 



Brain, the: its holistic functions, 

 143 ; mind and, 244, 253 



Breathing, physiology of, 140 



Brown, Robert, 62 



Cage, closed, Einstein's illustration, 

 28-9 



Carbon dioxide, its transformation 

 in the plant, 68, 77 



Carlyle, arrested development of his 

 inner self, 286 



Catalysis, use of colloids in, 46, 68 



Causation, rigid concept of, in 19th- 

 century science, 9, 16-17, 155, 156; 

 and the idea of "fields," 17-19; 

 Holism and, 126-7, 13S-6, 137, 138, 

 30S> 306-7, 308; freedom creative 

 within the process of, 137-9, 306-7 



Cell, the, 61, 63, 64, 83, 84, 97, 153, 

 221, 228, 229, 230; colloidal sys- 

 tem of plant cell, 46-7, 65; en- 

 zyme action in, 46-7, 68-9; the 

 chromosomes, 53, 62, 70-71, 73, 

 202, 220; history of study of cells, 

 62-3 ; structure and functions of 

 cells, 62, 63-9; the cell wall, 62, 

 65; cell-divisions, 62, 63, 70-71, 72, 



73 -4> 75 ; attempt to explain phys- 

 ical mechanism of heredity from, 

 63 ; some central control of its 

 functions implied, 66, 67-8, 77, 78- 

 83, 84, 88, 191 ; its origin possibly 

 electrical, 70-75; reproduction by 

 reduction division, 73-4, 75; sin- 

 gle-content and double-contents 

 cells, 73-4; differentiation in cells, 

 and divergence of plant and ani- 

 mal forms, 75-6, 80; the co-oper- 

 ation and co-ordination of cells 

 towards a whole, 77-84, 96-7, 191, 

 214-15, 230, 320; the power of 

 restitution of damaged cells, 80-81 ; 

 body-cells differentiated from germ 

 cells, 198-9, 201 ; possible recipro- 

 cal influence of body-cells and 

 germ-cells, 203, 204, 205, 206, 219; 

 germ-cell theory of Variation, 188, 

 190, 191, 194, 197-205, 220. 



Cell-division, process of, 63, 70-71, 

 72-4, 75; its electrical character, 

 70, 71, 72 



Characterology, 282 



Chemical affinity, accounted for, 38, 

 43-4; the select! veness of matter 

 in its colloid state possibly related 

 to, 57; Holism and, 319 



Chemical compounds, holistic char- 

 acter of, 104, 105, 106, 122, 128, 

 }2):i, 173; Mechanism and chem- 

 ical combination, 150 



Chemistry, 54; the analysis of the 

 constitution of matter, 37; the 

 importance of "structure," 37, 38; 

 two types of chemical change, 

 47-8 



Chlorophyll, its part in plant life, 

 47, 58, 68, 71, 76-7 



Christianity and the evolution of the 

 idea of Personality, 283 



Chromosomes, 62 ; differences in, and 

 organic variations, 53; their be- 

 haviour in cell-division, 70-71, 73; 

 hereditary characters carried by' 

 200, 220 



Clerk-Maxwell, 166-8, 169, 170, 172 



Colloid state of matter, 45-7, 57-8, 

 68, 162; distinctive of all life- 

 forms, 46; colloidal system of 

 plant cell, 46-7, 65; distinctive 

 properties of colloids, 46-7, 68-9; 

 enzyme action, 46-7, 68-9; antici- 

 pates processes and activities of 

 life, 57-8 



