INDEX 



399 



Plastic substances, 255 



Plato, 49, 156, 191, 210 note, 316, 

 318, 319, 320, 321, 327, 330, 

 347, 349 



Platonic ideas, 49, 315-6, 321, 322, 

 327, 330, 352 



Plotinus, 210 note, 314-5, 323, 324 

 note, 349, 352, 353 



Plurality, confused, of life, 257. 

 See Interpenetration 



Poem, sounds of, distinct to per- 

 ception; the sense indivisible 

 to intuition, 209 

 illustrating creation of matter, 

 240, 319-20 



XOCTjTCKOS, VOUS, of Aristotle, 322 



Polymorphism of ants, bees, and 

 wasps, 140 

 of insect societies, 157 



Polyzoism, 260 



Positive reality, 208, 212. See 

 Reality 



Positivity, materiality an inver- 

 sion or interruption of, 219, 

 246, 247-8, 319-20 



Possible activity as a factor in 

 consciousness, 11, 12, 96, 144, 

 145, 146-7, 158-9, 165, 179, 180, 

 181, 189, 264, 368 

 existence, 290, 295 



Post-Kantian philosophy, 362, 363 



Potential activity. See Possible 

 activity 

 genera, 226 



knowledge, 142-7, 150, 166 



Potentiality, life as an immense, 

 258, 270 

 zone of, surrounding acts, 179, 

 180, 181, 264. See Possible 

 activity 



Powers of life, complementarity 

 Of, xii, xiii, 26, 27, 51-5, 97-105, 

 110, 113, 116-8, 119, 126-7, 131- 

 6, 140-3, 176, 177, 183, 184, 

 246, 254, 255, 257, 266, 270, 

 343, 345 



Practical nature of perception and 

 its prolongation in intellect 

 and science, 137-41, 150, 193- 

 4, 196, 197, 206, 207-8, 218, 

 247-8, 273, 281, 305, 306-7, 328, 

 329 



Preestablished harmony, 205-6, 

 207 



Present, creation of, by past, 5, 

 20-3, 26-7, 167, 199-202 



Prevision. See Foreseeing 



Primacy of nervous system, 120- 

 6, '252 



Primary instinct, 138-9, 168 

 (Primitive organisms, ambiguous 

 forms of, 99, 112, 113, 116, 129, 

 130 

 "Procession" in Alexandrian phi- 

 losophy, 323 

 Progress, adaptation and, 101 ff. 

 evolutionary, 50, 133, 134, 138, 

 141-2, 173-4, 175, 185, 264-5, 

 266 

 Prose and verse, illustrating the 



two kinds of orders, 221, 232 

 Protophytes, colonizing of, 259 

 Protoplasm, circulation of, 32-3, 

 108 

 and senescence, 18, 19 

 imitation of, 32-3, 35 

 primitive, and the nervous sys- 

 tem, 124, 126-7 

 of primitive organisms, 99, 108, 



109 

 and the vital principle, 42-3 

 Protozoa, association of, 259-61 

 ageing of, 16 

 of ambiguous form, 112 

 and individuation, 14, 259-61 

 mechanical explanation of 



movements of, 33 

 and nervous system, 126 

 reproduction of, 14 

 Pseudo-ideas and problems, 177, 



277, 283, 296 

 Pseudoneuroptera, division of 



labor among, 140 

 <pXV7} of Aristotle, 350 

 of Plotinus, 210 note 

 Psychic activity, two-fold nature 

 of, 136, 140-1, 142-3 

 life, continuity of, 1-11, 29-30 

 Psychical existence contrasted 

 with logical, 276, 297-8, 327- 

 8, 361 

 nature of life, 257 

 Psychics inverted physics, 201, 

 202. See Inverse relation of 

 the physical and psychical 

 Psychology and deduction, 212-3 

 and the genesis of intellect, 187, 



194, 195-6, 197 

 intuitional cosmology as re- 

 versed, 208-9 

 Psycho-physiological parallelism, 



180, 350, 351, 355, 356 

 Puberty, illustrating crises in 

 evolution, 19, 320-1 



Qualitative, evolutionary and ex- 

 tensive becoming, 313 

 motion, 302-3, 304, 311 



