INDEX 



Loeb, Jacques, on mechanism, 10- 

 13, 73; his experiments, 74, 76, 

 79, 147; on variations, 148. 



Machines, Nature's and man's, 224- 

 226; contrasted and compared 

 with living bodies, 241, 242. 



Maeterlinck, Maurice, on the Spirit 

 of the Hive, 82. 



Man, evolution of, 246-2.51; as the 

 result of chance, 255; as a part of 

 the natural order, 258, 259, his 

 little day, 269. 



Matter, as acted upon by life, 8, 9 

 creative energy immanent in, 9 

 change upon entry of life, 39 

 constitution of, 43, 44, 46-48; a 

 state of the ether, 63 ; changes in, 

 131, 133; Emerson on, 188; dis- 

 crete, 196; emanations detected 

 by smell and taste, 198, 199; a 

 hole in the ether, 203; origin of its 

 properties, 204-206; a higher con- 

 ception of 259-261; common view 

 of grossness of, 274, 275. 



Maxwell, James Clerk, on the ether, 

 63; on atoms. 198. 



Mechanism, the scientific explana- 

 tion of mind, .5; and ethics, 12; 

 reaction against, 32; definition, 

 72; Prof. Henderson's view, 88, 

 89; vs. vitalism, 212-243. See 

 also Life. 



Metaphysics, necessity of, 101. 



Micellar strings, 217. 



Microbalance, 60. 



Mind, evolution of, 287, 288. See 

 also Intelligence. 



Molecules, spaces between, 65, 196, 

 speed, 192; unchanging charac- 

 ter, 205, 206. 



Monera, 285. 



Moore, Benjamin, a scientific vital- 

 ist, 106; his "biotic energy," 106- 

 113, 145, 146. 



Morgan, Thomas Hunt, 148. 



Motion, perpetual, 190, 191, 278; 

 mass and molecular, 269, 270. 



Naegeli, Karl Wilhelm von, 217. 

 Nitrogen, 51. 

 Nonentities, 99, 100. 



Odors, 198, 199. 



Osmotic growths, 167, 168. 



Oxygen, activities of, 51, 52, 59; in 

 the crust of the earth, 193; chemi- 

 cal affinities, 193-195; different 

 forms of atoms, 200. 



Parker, Theodore, on the universe, 

 280. 



Parthenogenesis, artificial, 11, 74. 



Pasteur, Louis, his "dissymmetric 

 force," 22, 32. 



Philosophy, supplements science, 

 94-96, 104, 109, 163, 164; deals 

 with fundamental problems, 242, 

 243; contradictions in, 254-258. 



Phosphorus, 59, 60. 



Physics, staggering figures in, 192. 



Pitch lake, 123. 



Plants, force exerted by growing. 

 17-20. 



Plasmogen, 145, 146. 



Plastidules, 217. 



Protobion, 135. 



Protoplasm, vitality of, 169; crea- 

 tive, 286. 



Radio-activity, 66-70, 132. 



Radium, 61, 201. See also Beta 

 rays. 



Rainbow, 70. 



Ramsay, Sir William, 191, 192. 



Rand, Herbert W., on the mechan- 

 istic view of life, 89, 90. 



Russia, 250, 251. 



Salt, crystallization, 276, 277. 



Schafer, Sir Edward Albert, 73; his 

 mechanistic view of life, 133-138. 



Science, delicacy of its methods and 

 implements, 60, 61; limitations 

 of its field, 94-100, 104; cannot 

 deal with life except as a physical 

 phenomenon, 161, 162; does not 

 embrace the whole of human life, 

 162, 163; inadequacy, 163-166; 

 cannot grasp the mystery of life, 

 173, 175, 176, 234-236; cannot 

 deal with fundamental problems, 

 242, 243; concerns itself with mat- 

 ter only, 264; inevitably mechan- 

 istic, 265, 266; views the universe 

 as one, 267, 268, 271-274; the re- 



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