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INDEX 



8s, 97, io8, 227, 228, 270; the 

 gaps between life, mindj and mat- 

 ter bridged by Holism, 108-9, 121, 

 158, 174-6, 178, 179, 320-21; the 

 concept of the whole preferable to 

 that of, 109-10, 160-61 ; degrees of 

 Freedom in, 139; the laws of 

 thermodynamics and the principles 

 of life and mind, 155, 163-70; de- 

 velopment of mind from, 151-2, 

 154, 178, 180, 231-4, 235-8; life 

 and mind not independent entities, 

 iS7-9> 1705 the Vitalistic hypoth- 

 esis criticised, 159-61, 171-2, 177; 

 power of selection and self-direc- 

 tion in, 162-4, 165, 167, 168, 170- 

 71, 176-7, 235, 237, 249; unity and 

 inter-action of life and mind, 170- 

 71 ; the theory of Entelechy and, 

 171-2, 177; hfe and its action on 

 the body, Holism and, 172-9; a 

 new structure based on those of 

 the physico-chemical order, 174-6, 

 178, 179, 181, 230, 335; the rhyth- 

 mic equilibrium in, 174, 176-9; 

 Goethe on its purpose, 31S; Nat- 

 uralism and, 329 



Light: its velocity, and the principle 

 of Relativity, 26-7; the curvation 

 of, 30; accounted for by quanta 

 of radiation released by electrons, 

 39-40; light effects as basis of 

 theory of atomic structure, 49-50 



Liquids: and internal equihbrium of 



the molecule, 44-5; molecular 



structure of, 45, 64 



I 



Males, the operation of Sexual Se- 

 lection limited to, 13 



Malpighi, 62 



Man: a psycho -physical whole, 152; 

 his mind and his environment, 

 251-2 ; the role of structure not 

 very prominent in, 252-3; hered- 

 itary past in mind of, 255, 274; 

 heredity and educability in, 274; 

 "a legislative being," 296; the 

 Ideal Man, 312-13; Naturalistic 

 view of, 329-30 



Materiahsm, its unjustified infer- 

 ences, 8, 10, 15; its struggle with 

 Spiritualism over Evolution, 8-9, 

 II 



Matter: apparent separateness of 

 matter, life and mind, not founded 

 in fact, 2, 3, 21, 50; new concept 



of, needed, 3, 4-5, 10, 11, 16, 50- 

 52, 56, 57, 61, 96; thought and, 4; 

 development of hfe and mind 

 from, 7-8, lo-ii, 51, 52, 53-4, 55, 

 57, 58, 174-6; 19th-century ma- 

 teriahsm, 8, 9; Evolution and the 

 new concept of, lo-ii, 23; its 

 field the structure of the Space- 

 Time universe, 31, 44, 112, 327; 

 a form of Energy or Action, 31, 

 41, 44, SI, 55, 56, 326-7; recent 

 advances in the knowledge of its 

 constitution, 37-50, 95, 162; 

 structural character of, 37, 38, 



44-5, 51, 55, 56, 95, 162, 173-4, 

 230, 231, 331; the proton possi- 

 bly the fundamental form of, 

 41 ; artificial breaking up of, 

 greatest potential source of en- 

 ergy, 42; internal structure and 

 external properties of, 44-S, 112; 

 its behaviour in the colloid state, 

 45-7, 57-8, 162; selectiveness of, 

 47, 57, 161-2, 235; creativeness of, 

 55-8, 89-90, 96-7, 128; in the cell, 

 64, 65; overflow of matter, mind, 

 and life into each other's domain, 

 85, 97, 108, 227, 228, 270; Holism 

 and the disappearance of the gulf 

 between hfe, mind, and matter, 

 108-9, 121, 158, 174-6, 178, 179; 

 life a complex structure of, 174-6, 

 178, 179, 230, 335; spirit and, 

 Spinozist position, 321 «., 334-5 



Mechanical system, holistic system 

 distinguished from, 103-4, 125-6, 

 127, 133, 141, 305^ 



Mechanics, 25 ; the' new system of 

 Relativity, 25-34 



Mechanism, 149, 152; invades the 

 domain of hfe, 4, 5, 12, 109, no; 

 biology and, 4, 5, 11, 100, 109, 

 113-14, 121; the system shaken by 

 the concept of creative Evolution, 

 10- II, 132-3; strengthened by a 

 misconception of Darwinism, 11- 

 16, 189, 190; its recent domina- 

 tion of science, 89, 100, 103, 322, 

 324-5; wholes not mechanical sys- 

 tems, 103-4, 125-6, 127, 133, 141, 

 305; Holism and, 147-181; the 

 concept of Hohsm transforms and 

 transcends the mechanistic system, 

 147, 148-52, 179-81; man and, 

 152; an early phase of Hohsm, 

 153, 180, 329; inadequate for mod- 



