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THE MECHANISM OF LIFE 



Carbonic acid in lungs, 67; in nature, 

 84 



Carnivorous animals, 84 



Carnot, 194; and the steam engine, 157 



Catalysis, 158 



Categories of locomotion, 11 



Categories of the mind, 54, 185, 188; 

 biological view of, 191; are mental 

 constraints, 189; mental operators, 

 188; and virtual action, 191 



Cause and effect, 179 



Cerebellum, 95, 123; connections of, 

 diagram, 124; connections of, 102 

 importance of, 125; injuries to, 124 

 and standard movements, 148 

 structure of, diagram, 26 



Cerebral hemispheres, 94; functioning 

 of, 125 



Cerebral physiology, 133 



Chemical combustion, 48 



Chemical configurations, 34 



Chemical energy, 48 



Chemical reactions, 51 



Chemical reactions, types of, 167; 

 endothermic, 83; and energy trans- 

 formations, 167 



Chemistry of eighteenth century, 157 



Chemistry and modern biology, 193 



Chlorophyll, 82 



Chyle, 154 



Circulation in body, 152; 



Circulation of the blood, diagram, 65; 

 discovery of, 66; in fish, 64; 



Civilisations,industrial and pastoral, 86 



Clausius, 231 



Claw-like organs, 8 



Coal and plant life, 86 



Cochlea, 115 



Coherence, 31 



Cold, sensation of, 109 



Colloids, 158 



Colour change in animals, 156; nature 

 of, 33 



Combustion in animal body, 44, 56; 

 nature of, 39, 40; theory of, 157 



Commissures in cortex, 128; in nervous 

 system, 92 



Compensatorj' transformations, 83 



Compounds, chemical, 34 



Consciousness and colloids, 184; and 

 cortex cerebri, 110; and energy, 133, 

 184; not measurable, 184; and 

 sensation, 110, 176 



Conservation, law of, 46; and action, 

 54; a convention, 179, 194; a law 

 of thought, 46, 53; qualifications 

 of, 52 



Consumption by animals, 85 



Convolutions of brain, 103, 128 



Co-ordination of activities, 87, 182; 

 and cortex cerebri, 129, 140; mus- 

 cular, 123 



Cord, spinal, tracts in, 111 



Corpora striata, 95; quadrigemina, 95 

 Corpuscles of blood, diagram, 68 

 Correspondences, one to one, 229 

 Cortex cerebri, 143; and cerebellum, 

 129; connections of, 102, 127; 

 and control of body, 120; diagram 

 of, 128; in evolution, 127, 144; 

 and learned actions, 149: localisa- 

 tion of function in, 127; motor area 

 of, 128; prefrontal area, 127; sen- 

 sory area of, 129; and spontaneous 

 actions, 149; structure, diagram, 

 126; and volition, 105 

 Corti, organ of, 108, 115 

 Cosmic order and behaviour, 150 

 Cosmic space and matter, 209; finite, 



236 

 Cranial nerves, 89, 113 

 Cranium, the vertebrate, 16 

 Crura of brain, 128 

 Crustacea, locomotion in, 11 

 Crystal growth, 171 

 Crystalloids, 158 



Death, meaning of, 225 



Death, universal, 231 



Decerebrate bird, 140; dog, 141; 

 fish, 140; frog, 139; mammal, 141 



Decussation of nervous tracts, 100 



Defensive organs, 3, 11 



Degeneration of nerve fibres, 165 



Dendrites of nerves, diagram, 26 



Density and temperature, 31 



Descartes and animal heat, 155; cos- 

 mogony of, 161; and Harvey, 66; 

 and mechanism, 153; and modem 

 vitalism, 193; and physical specula- 

 tions, 161 ; physiology of , 154 



Detension, 232 



Determinism, physical, 134, 172; 

 and free-will, 179; in organic re- 

 sponse, 173; in spinal frog, 136 



Dietaries, energy of, 76 



Differentials, 228 



Differentiation of structure, 2 



Digestion, 57, 58, 61 



Digestive juices, 58 



Dimensions of space, 189; of time and 

 space, 235 



Dinosaurs, skeleton of, 15 



Discourse on method, 160 



Disease, biology of, 6; epidemic, 77 



Disentropic phases, 203 



Disharmonies of functioning, 6, 7, 74 



Dissipation, law of , 97, 217 ; life retards, 

 221; in nervous system, 133 



Dog, scratch reflex of, 119 



Dreams, 179 



Driesch and logical categories, 186 



Ductless glands, 99 



Duration, meaning of, 206 : not infinite, 

 197; orders of. 205; and perception, 

 207 ; rhvthms of, 206 ; and time, 207 



