INDEX 



357 



vironment, 136-7, 138, 210, 238, 

 300, 340-41 ; Vitalism and, 1S9-61; 

 selectiveness the fundamental 

 property of, 162, 163; the freedom 

 of, 162, 30s, 306, 307; the laws of 

 thermodynamics and the princi- 

 ples of life and mind in, 163-70; 

 variations in, 208-9, 210-11 {See 

 Variation) ; hoUstic repression of 

 variations in, 215-16; individual- 

 ity of, 232, 233, 242; development 

 of mind in, 235-8 ; material objec- 

 tive of, 294; treated as synthetic 

 units, 320; organic situations dis-' 

 tinguished from, 339-40 



Organs, holistic, 143 



Origin of Species (Darwin), 23, 



186-7 

 Osmosis, 65, 68, 76 

 Oxygen in the vital processes, 72 



Pangenesis, Darwin's theory of, 188 

 Panpsychism and creative Evolution, 



334-S 

 Past, the, in the activities of mind, 



254-S, 257, 336-7 

 Pavlov, Professor, 205 n. 

 "Peraction," suggested term for 



body-and-mind relation, 270 

 Periodic Law, the, 38 

 Periodic Table, the, 41, 43, 54 

 Persona in Roman law, 282-3 

 Personality, the: the supreme em- 

 bodiment of Holism, 105, 106, 

 140, 152, 153, 233, 246, 263-4, 

 276, 277, 283, 292, 293, 304, 308, 

 320; repressive activity of Holism 

 and, 216; mind and the develop- 

 ment of, 229, 233, 235, 264, 

 267, 274; Purpose a function of, 

 235, 240, 241, 259, 296; an 

 apparent deviation from the 

 main plan of Holism, 241; its 

 present imperfection, 241, 246, 

 297, 299, 309-10; its basis 

 universal, 245-6, 263-4; the 

 hereditary past and, 255, 273, 

 274, 275, 276; as a whole, 263- 

 89; the body and, 264-6, 279, 

 280; body and spirit in, 264-7; 

 body and mind in, 267-71, 272, 

 273> 277; its own creative 

 holistic activity, 271-3, 284, 292, 

 299, 304; its individuality, 274-5, 

 278-9, 284-5; constant and pro- 

 gressive, 275-6; as the Subject 



of experience, 277-8; psychology 

 and, 277, 278, 279-82, 293; the 

 subconscious mind and, 279-80, 

 296-7; the need for a science of, 

 281-2, 284-9, 293-4; evolution of 

 the idea of, 282-3 ; value of 

 biography to the study of, 284-9, 

 294; functions and ideals of, 292- 

 316; an organ of self-realisation, 

 293, 294, 295, 315-16; ethical 

 ideals of, 294, 295, 298, 299-300, 



303, 305, 311, 312, 313, 314-16; 

 the will and, 294, 295, 298, 309; 

 the intelligence and, 294-5; inner 

 control and direction of, 296-9, 

 300, 310; self-healing power of, 

 299-300; environment and, 300, 

 301-4; purity or wholeness of, 

 303-4, 305, 312-15; freedom of, 



304, 309-12, 315, 316; and the 

 idea of a Supreme Whole, 



341-2 



Personology, the science of Per- 

 sonality, 282, 284-9, 293-4 



Phccdo (Plato), 102 



Philosophy, 90, 91, 297; its co- 

 operation with science ensured 

 by acceptance of creative Evolu- 

 tion, 90-92 ; the idea of the whole 

 neglected by, 100; "the whole" 

 in absolutism, 100, 102 ; the 

 concept of the whole more precise 

 than that of life in, 109-10; 

 Holism and the old concepts of, 

 148; and the relations of body 

 and mind, 156, 269; Personality 

 in, 277, 278 



Photo-synthesis in plants, 68, 69, 

 71, 76 



Phylogeny repeated in ontogeny, 



74, IIS 



Physical mixtures and chemical 

 compounds, analogies from, 122-4, 

 128, 133, 134 



Physical science: new concept of 

 matter in, 3, 5, 51 ; recent 

 progress in, 5, 7; the general 

 acceptance of Evolution and, 11; 

 and the relations of life and mind, 

 16, 154-5, 156, 157, 163-70; the 

 error of abstraction in, 20; the 

 doubtful validity of the concept 

 of force in, 160; Holism and the 

 NaturaUsm of, 329-31 



Physico-chemical mechanisms, 150, 

 157, 173 i Vitalistic hypothesis of, 



