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INDEX 



159; structural equilibrium in, 

 173-4, 176; inner holistic char- 

 acter of, 174; the material of 

 the new structure of life, 174-S, 

 176 



Physics, the New, 37, 327; dis- 

 coveries as to the constitution of 

 matter, 37, 38-41, 327; assimi- 

 lates chemical categories to 

 physical, 47-8, 150; associates 

 energy and mass, 164 



Physiology: and Mechanism, 152; 

 new categories demanded by, 

 177; and Personahty, 279 



Planck, Max, 39 



Plants: the plant cell, 62, 65-9; 

 the origin of the cell, 70-75; the 

 process of reproduction similar 

 to that of animals, 70, 71, 73; 

 common origin of animals and, 

 75 ; causes of divergence of plant 

 and animal forms, 75-7; holistic 

 co-operation and co-ordination in, 

 78, 82, 83, los, 106, 230, 231; 

 regenerative power of, 80; eco- 

 logical modifications and Varia- 

 tion in, 207, 208 



Plato, 102 



Pleurococcus, cell aggregation in, 

 75-6 



PotentiaUty and organic creative- 

 ness, 131-2 



Pre-established harmony, 220, 269- 

 70, 272, 333, 334 



Proton, the, 40, 41 



Protoplasm, 46, 54, 62, 65, 114; 

 enzyme action in, 46, 47, 68; its 

 movement in the cell, 65; always 

 in a process of creative change, 

 66-7; its formation of new proto- 

 plasm, 67; metabolism of, 67, 68; 

 possible origin of its primitive 

 forms, 72 



Psychical nature of Natural and 

 Sexual Selection, 13, 222-3 



Psychological Principles (Ward) , 

 280-81, 282 



Psychology, 239, 244, 278; its 

 methods, 227, 228, 278-80; the 

 standpoint of Relativity essential 

 to, 239, 240; natural science 

 reunited with, 240; and the 

 syntheses of Reason, 244; the 

 services of Holism to, 259-60; 

 and the Personality, 277, 278, 

 279-82, 293 



Psycho-physical wholes, 154, 168, 

 169; the theory of Entelechy and 

 171-2 



Purity, an ideal of the Personality, 

 303-4, 305, 312-15 



Purpose: purposiveness distinctive 

 of wholes, 139, 140; a function 

 of Personality, 235, 240, 241, 

 259, 296; the highest manifesta- 

 tion of mind, 258-9; the pur- 

 posive view of Evolution, 341-2, 

 343 



Quantum, the, 39, 41; quanta of 

 radiation released by electrons, 

 39-40, 49; discontinuity of the 

 quanta, 40, 331; supremacy of 

 the quantum law, 51 



Racial and individual development, 

 differentiation of, 198-9, 201-3, 

 204 



Radioactivity, 23, 37, 38; a spon- 

 taneous breaking up of matter, 

 42 ; and the transmutation of 

 elements, 42-3, 52, 53; its opera- 

 tion compared to that of Organic 

 Descent, 52-3, 54 



Radium converted into Lead, 42 



Reality, 4; its nature obscured by 

 the analytical character of 

 thought, 15, 19, hi; the sensible 

 order and the conceptual order, 

 49-50, 92, in; the old static 

 view of, 88, 89; creative Evolu- 

 tion and, 89, 92, 117, 132; not 

 explained by Bergson's Duration, 

 92, 93 > 94; Holism and the evo- 

 lution of, 106-7, 108, 116, 142-4, 

 221; Relativity and, in, 114, 122, 

 326; formula for its fundamental 

 problems, 147, 149; individuation 

 and, 239, 240, 242, 246; Reason 

 and, 243; our sense of, and a 

 sixth holistic sense, 256; Person- 

 ality and, 263, 273, 277 



Reason, 243-4; creative of values, 

 90, 243 



Reflexes and the development of 

 mind, 237, 249 



Regeneration, organic, 80 



Relativity, theory of, 16, 23, 24-5; 

 its mathematical origin, 25-7; 

 gravitation in, 25, 28-9, 30-31, 

 32, 185; the Space-Time universe, 

 28-32, 33, 326, 327; its subjec- 



