CONTENTS. 



Machines do not grow 47 



Molecular mechanics ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 48 



Clock mechanisms ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 49 



The 1 cell a force-conditioning machine ... ... ... ... 51 



Molecular machinery ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 5 2 



Brain built by sun ... ... ... ... ... 53 



Growth of cells and crystals 55 



Affirmation not explanation ... ... ... ... ... ... 56 



Molecules 58 



Dr. Hughes Bennett on cell formation ... ... 61 



Catalytic actions not vital actions ... ... ... ... ... 62 



Conversion of force and correlation ... ... ... ... ... 64 



Vital selection and magnetic attraction ... ... ... ... 64 



Professor Owen on death ... ... ... ... 65 



Conversion of the non-living into the living ... 66 



Origin of fungi from oil-globules ... ... ... ... ... 68 



Speculations concerning living and dead ... ... 69 



Correlation of vital and physical forces ... ... ... ... 72 



Vitality not a collocation of forces ... ... ... ... ... 74 



Hux] ey on jelly -guiding forces ... ... ... ... ... 77 



Physical doctrine not supported by observation and experiment ... 77 



The mystery of the physicists ... ... ... ... ... ... 78 



Revelations of the future ... ... ... ... ... ... 79 



Physicists have not discovered cause of vital movements ... ... 80 



Physical and chemical changes in pabulum ... ... 81 



Word-producing machinery of Mr. Huxley ... ... ... ... 82 



Descartes' rational soul... ... ... ... ... 83 



Education possible because the body is a machine ! ... ... 84 



The engineer of Descartes' hydraulic machine 85 



Mr. Huxley's engineer... ... ... ... ... ... ... 87 



III. PROTOPLASM. 



Definition of protoplasm ... ... ... ... ... ... 89 



Primordial utricle and nucleus... ... ... ... 90 



Huxley's endoplast and periplast ... ... 91 



Protoplasm of Max S chultze and Kuhne 91 



Germinal matter or bioplasm ... .. ... ... ... ... 92 



Many kinds of matter called protoplasm 94 



The physical basis of life ... ... 95 



Subtle influences of Huxley 96 



The cell not a mass of protoplasm ... ... ... ... ... 97 



Errors of Mr. Huxley ... ... ... ... ... 98 



Living matter and formed matter 98 



" Properties " of matter ... ... ... ... 101 



Crystallization and form 102 



Aquosity and vitality ... ... ... ... ... 103 



Kinds of water ... . . ... ... ... ... ... .. 105 



Properties of living matter ... ... ,.. ... ... ... 106 



