^- CONTENTS 



INORGANIC AND ORGANIC RHYTHMS 



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§ 17. Spiral Structures and Movements Universal in Nature • _ ^^ ^^^ 



§ 18. Growth in Straight Lines and in Spirals-Longitudinal and Transverse Cleavage.^ - ^^ 



Wings, &c ■ ' . . 101 



§ 19 Atoms and Molecules the same in Dead and Living Matter ..•••• ^^^ 



§ 20. Resemblances between Crystals, Plants, and Animals : Aiiomalous Resemblances . • ^^^ 



§ 21. Unity of Plan in Nature as regards Form and Colour : so-called Mumcry . • 



LINES OF FORCE IN CONNECTION ^I^H MAGNETISM, EL^^^^^^^^^^ 



PHENOMENA, &c., AS BEARING UPON STRAIGHT-LINE, CURVED, Ai 

 FORMATIONS IN PLANTS AND ANIMALS 

 S8 22 29 The Lodestone ; the Bar-Magnet ; Compound Magnet; Horse-Shoe Magnet ; Electro-Magnet ; 

 ^^ Magtets Ih one degree of Freedom ; the Compass ; Magnetism, Electricity, Light, Heat, and Motxon^^^^^ 



Correlated .■••••■•■■■ 



ATMOSPHERIC AND OTHER ELECTRICITY 



ANIMAL MAGNETISM 



S 30. Lines of Communication and Force, Nervous and Otherwise . . . .... 124 



ATOMS, MOLECULES, AND CELLS, AS FACTORS IN ORGANIC STRUCTURE 



AND FUNCTION 



EVIDENCES OF DESIGN IN THE REPRODUCTIVE ELEMENTS OF PLANTS AND 



ANIMALS 



The Globular, Concentric, Radiating, Branched, Segmented, Curved, and Spiral Arrangements 



make their Appearance at the very Threshold of Life 146 



PROGRESSIVE ADVANCE IN LOWER PLANT AND ANIMAL FORMS 



THE VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE WORLD — Views of Stewart, Tait, Thomson, Helmholtz, 



Stokes, Young, Crookes, &c 180 



§ 31. New Theory of Matter 184 



§ 32. Inter-action between the Mental and the Material Aspects of Things 191 



MATTER AND FORCE IN THE INORGANIC AND ORGANIC KINGDOMS: THEIR 

 RELATION TO LIFE, AND TO PLANTS AND ANIMALS— Author's Views regarding 

 Creation, Evolution, Natural Selectio^i, Type, Locomotion, Environment, Geology, &;c. . 193 



The Elements and their Combining Weights ... 194 



§ 33. Professor Haeokel's Behef in the Omnipotence of Matter . 196 



§ 34. Mechanical Views of Kant and Laplace as interpreted by Haeckel . ..... 201 



§ 35. Professor Huxley's Views on Evolution, especially in Connection with the Reptile, the Bird, and 



*^" H°^^" • .' 203 



