INDEX. 



A. 



Action, at a distance, explanation 

 of, 152; chemical, 184; and re- 

 action, 108, 196. 



Actual, the, the total round of 

 possibilities is, 118. 



Affinity, chemical and its devel- 

 opment, 250; higher aspects of, 

 251, 257. 



Affirmation involves negation, 

 *. e., differentiation, 237. 



Agassiz, 276 ; misinterpretation of 

 Darwinism, 279. 



Agnosticism, 266. 



Aristotle, 210 ; on law of contra- 

 diction, 25, 116; categories of, 

 ' 105; doctrine of substance, 117. 



Aryan race, 283. 



Atom, 58, 151 ; definition of, giv- 

 en by science, 59 ; as force-cen- 

 ter, 66, 144; as a phase of the 

 physical universe, 67. 



Atomic theory, 58, 92. 



Attraction, 49. 



Attraction and repulsion, as com- 

 plementary modes of energy, 

 52; the initial qualitative dif- 

 ferences constituting the reality 

 of matter, 89; unity of, under 

 the form of electricity, 191. 



Attributes, of substance, 107; 

 Spinoza's definition of, 105. 



B. 



Baer, von, 276. 



Becoming, 116. 



Being and non-being, 115. 



Biogenesis, 259. 



"Bodies," discrete phases of 



force, 140. 

 Brahm, 223. 



c. 



Categories of Aristotle, 105. 

 Cause, doctrine of, 207; final, as 



method, 254; four phases of, 

 210. 



Cause and effect, reciprocal as- 

 pects in every event, 209. 



Centrality, 246, 249, 256; in kind, 

 contrasted with c. in space, 280; 

 highest term of, 296. 



Certitude, absolute test of, 29; 

 Descartes on, 20. 



Change, possible only through 

 impressed force, 146; meaning 

 of, 28, 213. 



Chemistry, a form of applied 

 mathematics, 91; an aspect of 

 physics, 186. 



Conception, how inducive of 

 thought, 19, note; implies per- 

 ception, 18; a seizure of rela- 

 tions, 16. 



Consciousness, function of, 3 ; in- 

 dividual, 5, 19; power of, not 

 creative, but transforming, 3, 

 5; ultimate range of, 5-7; de- 

 gree of, measured in nervous 

 system, 294. 



Conservation of Energy, 199, 202. 



Continuity, principle of, 276, 288; 

 and discreteness of quantity in 

 matter, 83. 



Contradiction, law of, an ad- 

 vanced phase of law of consist- 

 ency, 25; as stated by Aris- 

 totle, 25; true significance of, 

 27. 



Creation, the one eternal fact, 253. 



Creator and creation, 215. 



Crystallization, 181. 



. 



Dalton, 92. 



Darwin, Charles, 268, 270. 



Definite proportions, Dalton'slaw 



of, 92. 

 Death, 262. 



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