INDEX 



Crystallization, 276, 277. 



Czapek, Frederick, on vital forces, 



133, 152; on life, 164, 166, 169; 



on enzymes in living bodies, 167. 



Darwin, Charles, quoted, 9; enforce 

 of growing radicles, 19; a contra- 

 diction in his philosophy, 254, 

 255. 



Electricity, in the constitution of 

 matter, 46-49; a state of the ether, 

 63; power from, 67, 68; the most 

 mysterious thing in inorganic 

 nature, 223. 



Electrons, knots in the ether, 63; 

 size and weight, 196; speed, 197; 

 matter dematerialized, 197 ; bom- 

 bardment from, 201, 202; revolv- 

 ing in the atom, 203; surface, 203; 

 compared with atoms, 203; prop- 

 erties of matter supplied by, 204. 

 Elements, of living bodies, 38, 39, 

 77, 78; analogy with the alphabet, 

 57-59, 206; undergoing spontane- 

 ous change, 67; various combina- 

 tions, 205-208; eagerness to com- 

 bine, 209. See also Atoms. 

 Eliot, George, on the development 



theory, 103. 

 Elliot, Hugh S. R M on mechanism, 



16. 



Emerson.Ralph Waldo,250; on phy- 

 sics and chemistry, 188; quoted, 

 280. 



Energy, relation of life to, 177-183; 

 atomic, 204. See also Creative 

 energy and Force. 

 Energy, biotic, 106-111, 145, 146. 

 England, 250. 

 Entities, 99, 100. 

 Environment, 86-88. 

 Enzymes, 167. 



Ether, the, omnipresent and all- 

 powerful, 61, 62; its nature, 62, 

 63; its finite character, 65, 66; 

 paradoxes of, 66. 



Ethics, and the mechanistic concep- 

 tion, 12. 



Evolution, creative impulse in, 6, 

 111; progression in, 13, 14; and 

 the arrival of the fit, 244-253; 

 creative, 251-253; evolution of 



life bound up with the evolution 

 of the world, 281-283; creative 

 protoplasm in, 286; a cosmic 

 view of, 289. 

 Explosives, 43. 



Fire, chemistry of, 54. 



Fiske, John, on the soul and immor- 

 tality, 4; on the physical and the 

 psychical, 75, 183. 



Fittest, arrival and survival of the, 

 244-253. 



Force, physical and mental, 3-5; 

 and life, 17-23; dissymmetric 

 force, 22; the origin of matter, 43, 

 44. See also Energy. 



Galls, 147, 154-156. 



Ganong, William Francis, on life, 



181. 

 Germany, in the War of 1914, 249- 



251. 



Glaser, Otto C., quoted, 98. 

 Goethe, quoted, 111, 221, 260, 



280; as a scientific man, 221. 

 Gotch, Prof., quoted, 270. 

 Grafting, 40, 41. 

 Grand Cafion of the Colorado, 225, 



228, 229. 



Grape sugar, 208. 

 Growth, of a germ, 217, 218. 



Haeckel, Ernst, 3, 285; on physical 

 activity in the atom, 25, 26; his 

 "living inorganics," 91; on the 

 origin of life, 161; on inheritance 

 and adaptation, 184; his "plasti- 

 dules," 217; a contradiction in his 

 philosophy, 256. 



Hartog, Marcus, 129. 



Heat, changes wrought by, 55, 56; 

 detection of, at a distance, 60. 



Helmholtz, Hermann von, on life, 

 25, 161. 



Henderson, Lawrence J., his "Fit- 

 ness of the Environment," 73; his 

 concession to the vitalists, 83, 85; 

 on the environment,86-88; a thor- 

 ough mechanist, 88, 89. 



Horse-power, 177, 178. 



Hudson River, "blossoming of the 

 water," 283. 



Huxley, Thomas Henry, on the 



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