CONTENTS xvii 



CHAPTER PAGES 



The Architecture of Inorganic Growth The Architecture of 

 Organic Growth The Architecture of Plant Life The Ar- 

 chitecture of Animal Life Unicellular Growth (Protozoa) 

 M ulticellular Growth Radial Structural Plan (Ccelenterates 

 or Jellyfish) Spiral Growth and False Radial Symmetry 

 (Molluscs and Echinoderms) 



IX. THE TRIAXIAL SYSTEM AND THE GREAT HIGHWAY OF 



ANIMAL EVOLUTION 211-251 



The Triaxial System of Structural and Functional Gradients 

 Its Methods of Internal Readjustment and Betterment 

 The Material and Functional Register of Vital Betterments: 

 The Old Mouth and the New; Gills, Lungs, and Heart; The 

 Blood; The Nervous System The Decline of Metamerism and 

 the Centralization of Functions Architectural Tropism, or 

 the Orientation of Triaxial Organic Gradients to the Triaxial 

 System of Gradient Action in the Outer World: The Asym- 

 metry of the Outer World; the Orientation of Triaxial Vital 

 Architecture to World Architecture; Tropic Action; Triaxial 

 Architecture as a Tropic Reaction System and as a Product 

 of Tropic Action Other Registers of Constructive Action; 

 Instincts, Intelligence, Cultural Implements Cultural Reg- 

 isters 



X. THE ARCHITECTURE AND COHESIVE POWER OF 



SOCIAL LIFE 252-282 



Limitations to the Growth of Man as an Individual, and the 

 Physical Limitations to his Organic Instruments The Dis- 

 tinctive Organs of Social Life, Manual, Visual, Vocal, Auditory, 

 and Mental, and their Cooperative Unification The Merging 

 of Man's Sense of Self with his Physical Instruments and Ma- 

 terial Properties The World-wide Unification, Physical, Or- 

 ganic, and Mental, of the Nineteenth Century: the Comple- 

 tion of the Social Blastoderm; the Increment of Power; the 

 New Receptors and Perceptors; the New Ways and Means of 

 Conveyance; the Orientation to a New World and the New 

 Mental Freedom The Compulsion to Social Cooperation 

 The Consciousness of Social Possessions as the Compelling 

 Creative Power in Social Construction and Social Preserva- 

 tion Summary of Chapters VII-X 



PART IV. THE ARCHITECTONICS OF MENTAL EVO- 

 LUTION 



XL THE ORIENTATION OF MENTAL IMAGERY TO NATURE- 

 ACTION AS A MEANS TO CONSTRUCTIVE CONDUCT 285-301 



The Cooperation between Conduct, Cosmic, Organic, and 

 Mental Action The Egoism and Altruism of Mental Life, 

 Learning, and Teaching The Parallelism between Mental and 

 Physical Evolution Mental Imagery as a Self-Constructive 

 Function The Evolution of Mental Imagery The Imagination 

 as an Instrument of Conveyance. The New Freedom and the 

 New World Basic Concepts. Creation, Growth, Obedience, 

 Service, Profit The Tests of Veracity 



