INDEX 



properties of protoplasm, 31. 126, 

 127; on consciousness, 95, 181, 

 262; on the vital principle, 101, 

 126, 127, 140; his three realities, 

 140; a contradiction in his philos- 

 ophy, 255, 256. 

 Hydrogen, the atom of, 65. 



Idealist, view of life, 218-222. 



Inorganic world, beauty in decay 

 in, 228, 229. 



Intelligence, characteristic of living 

 matter, 134, 139, 151-154; per- 

 vading organic nature, 223. 



Irritability, degrees of, 216, 217. 



James, William, 254. 



Kant, Immanuel, quoted, 221. 

 Kelvin, Lord, 83. 

 King, Starr, 244. 



Lankester, Sir Edwin Ray, quoted, 

 128, 141; his "plasmogen," 145, 

 146. 



Le Dantec, Felix Alexandre, his 

 "Nature and Origin of Life," 73, 

 79, 80; on consciousness, 80; on 

 the artificial production of the 

 cell, 83 ; on the mechanism of the 

 body, 224. 



Leduc, Stephane, his "osmotic 

 growths," 167, 168. 



Liebig, Baron Justus von, quoted, 

 83. 



Life, may be a mode of motion, 5; 

 evolution of, 6; its action on mat- 

 ter, 8, 9; its physico-chemical 

 origin, 9; its appearance viewed 

 as accidental, 10-14; Bergson's 

 view, 14-17, 27-29; Sir Oliver 

 Lodge's view, 17, 18; and energy, 

 17-23; theories as to its origin, 

 24-27; Tyndall's view, 28-30; 

 Verworn's view, 30, 31; the vital- 

 istic view, 32-38 ; matter as affect- 

 ed by, 39; not to be treated math- 

 ematically, 40; a slow explosion, 

 41, 42; an insoluble mystery, 43, 

 44 ; relations with the psychic 

 and the inorganic, 44, 45; com- 

 pared with fire, 54, 55; the final 

 mystery ot, 69, 70; vitalistic and 



mechanistic views, 71-114; Ben- 

 jamin Moore's view, 106-113; 

 the theory of derivation from 

 other spheres, 104; spontaneous 

 generation, 105; plays a small 

 'part in the cosmic scheme, 115- 

 119; mystery of, 120; nature mer- 

 ciless towards, 120-124; as an 

 entity, 124-130; evanescent char- 

 acter, 131, 132; Prof. Schafer's 

 view, 133-138; intelligence the 

 characteristic of, 134, 139, 151- 

 154; power of adaptation, 147- 

 149; versatility, 155, 156; the 

 fields of science and philosophy 

 in dealing with, 161-166, 173- 

 176; simulation of, 167, 168; and 

 protoplasm, 169; and the cell, 170; 

 variability, 171, 172; the bio- 

 genetic law, 174; relation to en- 

 ergy, 177-183; an i-entity, 181, 

 182; struggle with environment, 

 185, 186 ; as a chemical phenome- 

 non, 187; inadequacy of the me- 

 chanistic view, 212-243; degrees 

 of, 216, 217: arises, not comes, 

 230; a metaphysical problem, 

 231 ; as a wave, 231 ; its adaptabil- 

 ity, 253; a vitalistic view, 254- 

 289; naturalness of, 263-268; ad- 

 vent and disappearance, 268, 269; 

 the unscientific view, 274, 275; 

 analogy with the question of per- 

 petual motion, 277, 278; no great 

 gulf between animate and inani- 

 mate, 285; a cosmic view, 289. 

 See also Living thing, Vital force, 

 Vitalism, Vitality. 



Light, measuring its speed, 60. 



Liquids, molecular behavior, 200. 



Living thing, not a machine, 1-3, 

 212-214; viewed as a machine, 34- 

 37, 224-228; a unit, 215; adap- 

 tation, 215, 216; contrasted and 

 compared with a machine, 241, 

 242. 



Lodge, Sir Oliver, 183, 197; his view 

 of life, 17, 18, 34, 132, 161, 219, 

 237; his vein of mysticism, 34; 

 on the ether, 62, 63, 66; on molec- 

 ular spaces, 65; on radium, 201; 

 on the atom, 203; on electrons, 

 203. 



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