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INDEX 



Double-contents cell, generation of, 



74 

 Driesch, Professor Hans, 171-2 



Ductless glands, holistic organs, 143, 



205 



Duration, Bergson's principle of, 



92-3, 94, 95, 99, 115 

 Durkhen, experiments of, 207 n. 



Duty, Personality and, 314 



Ecological modifications leading to 

 variations, 207, 208, 210, 218, 219, 

 238 



Ecology, science of, 218, 340-41, 343. 

 See Environment. 



Einstein, 6, 7, 239, 240; the new 

 view-point of Relativity, 6; pub- 

 lishes General Theory of Relativ- 

 ity > 23 ; the theory capable of be- 

 ing put simply and intelligibly, 

 24-5; its mathematical origin, 24, 

 25-7; the Ten Equations, 25, 185; 

 the old mechanics and the new, 

 25-32 ; motion never absolute, 

 25-6: the Special Theory of Rela- 

 tivity, 26-7; his application of 

 the concept of the Space-Time 

 continuum, 28-32, 33-4; the illus- 

 tration of the closed cage, 28-9; 

 the idea of the inertia of matter 

 destroyed, 28; the subjective and 

 objective in the Space-Time syn- 

 thesis, 33, 34 



J^lan vital, 99 



Electro-magnetism, an instance of 

 the selectiveness of matter, 161-2 



Electrons, 39, 40, 49; and the nu- 

 cleus, 39; combinations of protons 

 and, 40; external properties of the 

 atom decided by number and 

 grouping of, 43 



Elements, the, 41, 52; their nuclei, 

 40 ; atomic numbers, 40-41 ; the 

 Periodic Table, 41, 42, 52; their 

 spontaneous breaking up in Radio- 

 activity, 42, 52; artificial destruc- 

 tion and transmutation of, 42-3, 

 52, 53; external properties the ex- 

 pression of internal structure, 43-4 



EUmination of the unfit, 11-12, 13. 

 See Natural Selection. 



Embryo: formation of, by cell- 

 division, 62 ; phylogeny repeated 

 in ontogeny, 74, 115 



Emergent Evolution (Morgan), 321 n. 



Ends, the realm of, 259 



Energy: the "field" of an object, 

 17-18, 112, 327-8; matter simply 

 a form of, 31, 41, 44, 51, $6, 326, 

 327, 328; intimate relation be- 

 tween structure and, 41-2, 44, 51, 

 S5, 56, 327; potentially available 

 by artificial breaking up of mat- 

 ter, 42 ; first functional in the 

 cell, 64, 65 ; holistic use and con- 

 trol of, 105, 106, 107; laws of, 

 and principles of Ufe and mind, 



iSS, 163-70, 305 

 Entelechy, theory of, 171-2, 177, 269 

 Environment: a confused complex 

 concept, 113; the organism largely 

 independent of, 136-7, 138, 300, 

 340; Variation and, 207, 208, 210, 

 218, 219; consciousness increases 

 influence of, 238; mind as creator 

 of, 251 ; social inheritance borne 

 by, 251-2; Personality and, 300, 

 301-4 

 Enzymes, action of, 46-7, 68-9 

 Epistemology, Personality and, 277 

 Equilibrium: of the atom, and its 

 external properties, 43-5; insta- 

 bility and readjustment of funda- 

 mental structures of Nature, 

 173-4; the same rhythm in the 

 structure of life, 174, 176, 177-8, 



216, 235; persistent overbalance 

 caused by Holism, 178-9, 214; 

 tension and selective compensation 

 as the source of mind, 235-6 



Ether, hypothesis of, 17, 269, 323-4 



Ethics: individualism and ethical 

 problems, 241, 246; ethical char- 

 acter of Personality, 294, 295, 298, 

 299-300, 304-5, 311, 312, 313, 

 314-16 



Euclidean geometry and the theory 

 of Relativity, 25, 29, 30; suitable 

 to the Newtonian and Kantian 

 conception of Space and Time, 32 



Evolution, 2-3, 8-10, 88-90, 141, 171, 



217, 323, 325, 328, 331-2; Darwin- 

 ism, 6, 11-16, 186-90, 191-4, 218; 

 the 19th-century battle over, 8-9; 

 the modern belief in Creative Evo- 

 lution, and its implications, 9-11, 

 23, 89-90, 129-35, 137 (See Crea- 

 tive Evolution) ; mechanistic con- 

 ceptions strengthened by Darwin- 

 ism, 11-16, 189, 190; its tendency 

 to hark back to simpler types, 54 ; 

 the idea apphcable to matter. 



