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INDEX 



illusion, 25-6; the co-variation of 

 Space and Time, 26-30; the Space- 

 Time continuum applied to, 28-30 



Multicellular organisms: reproduc- 

 tion by cell fusion, 73; reproduc- 

 tion by reduction division, 73-4, 

 75 ; formation of the earliest, 75-6 



Mutations: De Vries' theory of, 53, 

 194, 196-7, 206; of matter to life, 

 57; Darwin's theory of, 192, 193; 

 exceptional, 197, 218; of body to 

 mind, 270-71 



Natural Science reunited with psy- 

 chology, 240 



Natural Selection, erroneous me- 

 chanical view of, 11-12, 14, 15, 

 19, 189, 190; fundamentally psy- 

 chical, 14-15, 222-3, 313; Darwin's 

 theory of, 186, 187-8, 189-190, 

 192, 193, 206, 219; co-operation 

 between Variation and, 192, 193, 

 210-16 ; operative within the germ- 

 cell, 201-2 ; of small variations, 

 205-8, 210-14; Holistic Selection 

 and, 206, 209-16; its limitations, 

 215; co-operative and helpful 

 rather than murderous, 218, 219 



Naturahsm: and the principles of 

 life and mind, iS4-5, 156, i57> 

 169, 170, 171; Holism and, 329- 

 30, 331; irreconcilable with crea- 

 tive Evolution, 329-30, 332, 334 



Nature: errors in the observation of, 

 19-21; new view of, 23-4, 266; 

 her high-speed internal energies, 

 51 ; the concept of Holism and the 

 explanation of, 95, 96, 108, 131-5, 

 222, 342-3; mind and, 96, 97, 156, 

 229, 336, 342; wholes as the real 

 units of, 99, 100, 108, no; value 

 of the Space-Time integration to 

 the understanding of, in, 122, 

 173; fields in, in, 112-13, 340-41; 

 the concept of creativeness and, 

 131, 132, 133-5; the closed system 

 of physical science, 153-4, 156; 

 life a new structure of her holistic 

 physico-chemical structures, 173, 

 174-9; warfare not the rule in, 

 218, 2ig; the emotional appeal of, 

 336-7, 340, 343; holistic, not a 

 whole, 340, 342, 343; teleological 

 view of, 341-3; the holistic Field 

 of, 342, 343; the inference of a 

 Supreme Mind behind, 341-2, 343 



Necessity: in the closed system of 

 physical science, 155; the limita- 

 tions of its power over wholes, 

 305-6; the concept not grounded 

 in reality, 308 



Neo-Darwinians and the theory of 

 Variation, 190-92, 194-205 



Newton, 7, 25, 32, 164, 185, 186; 

 his First Law and the inertia of 

 matter, 32, 51; his conception of 

 Space and Time, 32, 33; his Law 

 of Gravitation, 184-5 



Nitrogen atom spht up by Ruther- 

 ford, 43 



Nomenclature, reforms needed in 

 scientific and philosophical, 6 



Nucleus, the: of the atom, 39, 40, 

 41, 42, 49; spontaneous breaking 

 up in Radioactivity, 42 ; of cell, 

 62, 65; its part in heredity, 63; 

 in cell-division, 70-71, 73 



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Object, relation of Subject and, 

 238-40 



Objects: their fields, 17, 18-19, 112, 

 327-8; regarded as events in 

 Space-Time, in; misinterpreted 

 by our intellect and senses, 111-12 



Ontogeny repeats phylogeny, 74, 115 



Organic and inorganic: vanished fix- 

 ity of, 23 ; the colloidal surface as 

 the bridge between, 47, 58; differ- 

 ent structure of organic and inor- 

 ganic compounds, 47-8, 64; the 

 cell the real distinction between, 



64-5 



Organic Descent: its operation com- 

 pared to that of Radioactivity, 

 52-3, 54. See Descent. 



Organisms: power of regeneration 

 possessed by, 80, 299; as typical 

 wholes, 82-4, 96-7, 98, loij 104, 

 no, 121-5, 127, 209, 214-15. 268, 

 271 ; relations of the parts and the 

 whole in, 82-3, 84, 96-7, loi, 104, 

 106, 124-5, 127, 142, 210; inner 

 co-ordination and self-regulation 

 of, 97, 98, 106, 140-43, 159, 162, 

 177-8, 209, 210, 214-15, 216, 230- 

 31, 234; their fields, 113-15; time 

 factor in development and expla- 

 nation of, 114-15, 210; transfor- 

 mation of a stimulus into free 

 action by, 127, 135-6, 306-7; 

 creativeness of wholes as seen in, 

 128-31, 132-5, 137; and their en- 



