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INDEX 



relations of body and, 264, 266-7; 

 Personality best studied in 

 spiritual life, 286-8; spiritual 

 objective of Personality, 294, 299, 



30s 

 Spiritual idealism (Spiritualism) : 



its battle with materialism over 



Evolution, 8-9; life and mind in, 



169, 170; irreconcilable with 



creative Evolution, 330-31, 332, 



333-6, 337, 343 



Sporophyte generation, the, 74 



Sports, biological, and Personality, 

 276 



State, the, a super-individual whole, 

 98, 106 



Structure: structural character of 

 the universe, 24, 31, 34, 37, 44, 

 230, 323; of matter, 37-42, 43-4, 

 51, 55, 56, 95, 162, 173-4, 230, 231, 

 331; relations of energy and, 41, 

 44, 51, 55, 56, 327; internal struc- 

 ture and external properties, 43-5, 

 112, 173-4, 176; dynamic self- 

 controUed equilibrium of, 43-5, 

 173-4, 176-9, 23s; organic, 64, 

 114, 169, 177-8; modern science 

 and the study oif, 90-91 ; and the 

 process of creative Evolution, 91, 

 92, 129-31, 133-S, 143-4, 169-70, 

 178, 230, 323; mind and, 94, 95, 

 252, 253; intellect and experience 

 and, 94-5; functions and struc- 

 ture in wholes, 104, 105, 106, 107, 

 112, 122-4, 153; holistic char- 

 acter of, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 

 122, 123-4, 127, 153, 174, 175, 



178, 179, 180, 232; the field and, 

 112-15; life a new structure 

 based on the physico-chemical 

 structures of Nature, 174-6, 178, 



179, 181, 230, 335; mind as a new 

 departure in, 178, 181, 229, 231, 

 235-6, 253; distinction between 

 Mechanism and, 180-81; heredi- 

 tary, less important in the human 

 than the animal^ 252, 253; unit 

 character of, 331 



Struggle for existence, the, 11-12, 13, 

 14-15, 186, 187-8, 189, 206; the 

 exception, not the rule, 218, 219 



Subconscious mind, the, 253-5; in 

 the Personality, 279-80, 296 



Subject-Object relation, the, 238-40 



Substance, divine, Spinoza's, 270, 

 272 



Sunlight and its action upon chloro- 

 phyll, 47, 58, 68, 71, 76-7 



Survival of the fittest, law of, 11-12 

 13, 15, 186, 187-8, 189 



Synthetic unity of wholes, the, 123-S, 

 126-7, 129, 130 



Teleological view of the universe, 

 341-2, 343. See Purpose. 



Telepathy, 257 



Thermodynamics, laws of, 155; and 

 the principles of life and mind, 

 163-9 



Things and their fields, 17-19, 112, 

 1 13-14; 327-8; as events in Space- 

 Time, hi; misinterpreted by the 

 senses, 111-12 



Thomson, Sir J. J., 39 



Thorium, its conversion into 

 Radium, 42 



Thought: baffled by misconcep- 

 tions of life, mind, and matter, 

 2, 3, 4, 157, 158-9; value of the 

 idea of fields, 17-19, 31; errors 

 due to analytical character of, 

 19-20; creativeness of, 90; deduc- 

 tive and inductive, 128-9; struc- 

 tural character of, 180; a social 

 instrument, 245; telepathy and, 

 257 



Time: in the theory of Relativity, 

 26, 27, 28-32, 33, 34; as con- 

 ceived by Newton and Kant, 32-4, 

 94; and Bergson's principle of 

 Duration, 93; the Time factor in 

 the field of mind, 254. See Space- 

 Time universe. 



Transmutation of elements, 42-3, 52, 



53 

 Treviranus, 62 

 Tropisms, 236, 237, 249 



Unicellular organisms, reproduction 

 of, 70-71, 73, 75-6 



Unity: of structure and functions in 

 the whole, 84, 122-S, 127, 141-2; 

 Holism the tendency towards, 179, 

 181, 220, 232 



Universality and individuation, two 

 tendencies of Holism, 238, 240, 

 241, 242; Reason the organ of 

 universahty, 243-4 



Universe, the: its structural char- 

 acter, 24, 31, 34, 37, 44, 230, 323, 

 327; stationariness in, an illusion, 

 25-6, 31; the Space-Time uni- 



