INDEX 



Adaptation, 184, 215, 216. 



Alpha rays, 60, 199. 



Aquosity, 127, 128, 141-143. 



Aristotle, 240. 



Asphalt lake, 123. 



Atoms, different groupings of, 56- 

 60; weighed and counted, 60, 61; 

 indivisibility, 61; the hydrogen 

 atom, 65; chemical affinity, 193- 

 195; photography of, 199, 200; 

 form, 203; atomic energy, 204; 

 qualities and properties of bodies 

 in their keeping, 204 ; unchanging 

 . character, 205, 206; rarity of free 

 atoms, 209; mystery of combina- 

 tion, 210. 



Autolysis, 169. 



Balfour, Arthur James, on Berg- 

 son's "Evolution Cr6atrice," 15. 



Bees, the spirit of the hive, 82. 



Benton, Joel, quoted, 70. 



Bergson, Henri, 129, 173, 263; on 

 light and the eye, 5; his view of 

 life, 14-16, 27-29, 221, 237, 238; 

 on the need of philosophy, 85, 86 ; 

 on life on other planets, 87; his 

 method, 109, 110; the key to his 

 "Creative Evolution," 132; on 

 life as a psychic principle, 162; 

 his book as literature, 238. 



Beta rays, 61, 199, 201. 



Biogenesis, 25. See also Life. 



Biophores, 217. 



Body, the, elements of, 38, 39; the 

 chemist in, 152, 153; intelligence 

 of, 153, 154; a community of cells, 

 157, 158; viewed as a machine, 

 212-214, 224. 



Brain, evolution of, 288. 



Breathing, mechanics and chemis- 

 try of, 50-54, 213. 



Brooks, William Keith, quoted, 128, 

 236. 



Brown, Robert, 191; the Brunonian 

 movement, 167, 172, 191. 



Brunonian movement, 167, 172, 



191. 

 Butler, Bishop, imaginary debate 



with Lucretius, 219, 220. 



Carbon, 38, 56, 59; importance, 208. 



Carbonic-acid gas, 52, 53. 



Carrel, Dr. Alexis, 98, 148. 



Catalysers, 135, 136. 



Cell, the, 83-85, 90, 96, 97, 180; 

 Wilson on, 95; living after the 

 death of the body, 98; Prof. Ben- 

 jamin Moore on, 107; nature of, 

 113; aimless multiplication, 148, 

 233; the unit of life, 156; com- 

 munistic activity, 157, 158, 184; 

 a world in little, 170; mystery of, 

 175; different degrees of irritabil- 

 ity, 216, 217. 



Changes in matter, 131, 133. 



Chemist, in the body, 152, 153. 



Chemistry, the silent world of, 49- 

 54; wonders worked by varying 

 arrangement of atoms, 56-60; 

 leads up to life, 188; a new world 

 for the imagination, 189-192; 

 chemical affinity, 193-195; vari- 

 ous combinations of elements, 

 205-208; organic compounds, 

 209; mystery of chemical com- 

 binations, 210; chemical changes, 

 210, 211; powerless to trace rela- 

 tionships between different forms 

 of life, 231, 232; cannot account 

 for differences in organisms, 233, 

 234. 



Chlorophyll, 77, 113, 168, 169, 177, 

 235. 



Colloids, 76, 108, 135, 136. 



Conn, H. W., on mechanism, 91- 

 94. 



Consciousness, Huxley on, 95, 181, 

 262. 



Corpuscles, speed in the ether, 65. 



Creative energy, immanent in mat- 

 ter, 9, 21; its methods, 263. 



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