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Creative Evolution

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Abolition of everything a self-contradiction, 280, 283, 296, 298 idea of, 279, 282, 283, 295, 296. See Nought Absence of order, 231, 234, 274. See Disorder Absolute and freedom, 277 reality, 99, 228-9, 269, 358, 361 reality of the person, 269 time and the, 239, 240, 298, 340, 344 Absoluteness of duration, 206 of understanding, xi, 47, 152, 190, 197, 199 Abstract becoming, 304-7 multiplicity, 257-9 time, 9, 17, 20-2, 37, 39, 46, 51, 163, 318-9, 336, 352-3 Accident and essence in Aristotle's philosophy, 353 in evolution, 86-7, 104, 114-5, 127, 169, 170, 252, 254-5, 266, 267, 326-7 Accidental variations, 55, 63, 68, 69, 74, 85-6, 168 Accumulation of energy, function of vegetable organisms, 253, 255 Achilles and tortoise, in Zeno, 311, 312-3 Acquired characters, inheritance of, 76-9, 83-4, 87, 169, 170, 173, 231 Act, consciousness as inadequacy of, to representation, 144 form (or essence), quality, three classes of representation, 302-3 Action, creativeness of free, 192, 247 and concepts, 160, 297 and consciousness, xiii, 5, 143-4, 145, 179-80, 207, 262 discontinuity of, 154, 307 freedom of, in animals, 130 as function of nervous system, 262-3 indivisibility of, 94, 95, 308-9 and inert matter, 96, 136, 141-2, 156, 187, 198, 226, 366 instinct and, 136, 141 instrument of, consciousness, 180 instrument of, life, 162 instrument of matter, 161, 198-9 as instrument of consciousness, 180 and intellect. See Intellect and action intensity of consciousness varies with ratio of possible, to real, 145 meaning of, 301-3 moves from want to fulness, 297, 298 organism a machine for, 252, 254, 300 and perception, 5, 11, 12, 93, 188, 189, 206, 227-30, 300, 307, 368 possible, 12, 13, 96, 144, 145, 146-7, 159, 165, 179-81, 188, 264 and science, 93, 195-6, 198-9, 329-30 and space, 203 sphere of the intellect, 155 tension in a free, 200, 207, 238, 240, 301-2 Activity, dissatisfaction the starting-point of, 297 of instinct, continuous with vital process, 139, 140 life as, 128-9, 247 mutually inverse factors in vital, 248 and nervous system, 110, 130, 132-3, 134-5, 180, 252, 261-3 organism as, 174 potential. See Action, possible tension of free, 200, 202, 207-8, 223-4, 237, 239, 300-1 and torpor in evolution, 109, 111, 113, 114, 119-20, 129-30, 135-6, 181, 292 vital, has evolved divergently, 134 See Divergent lines of evolution Adaptation, 50-1, 55, 57-8, 59, 70, 101, 129, 133, 192, 255, 270, 305-6 and causation, 102 mutual, between materiality and intellectuality, 187, 206-7 and progress, 101-2 Adequate and inadequate in Spinoza, 353 Adjectives, substantives and verbs, 303-4, 315 Aesthetics and philosophy, 177 Affection, Role of, in the idea of chance, 234 in the idea of nought, 281-3, 289, 293, 295, 296 in negation, 286-7 Affirmation and negation, 285-6, 293 Age and individuality, 15-6 Albuminoid substances, 121-2 Alciope, 96 Alexandrian philosophy, 322, 323 Algae in illustration of probable consciousness in vegetable forms, 112 Alimentation, 113-4, 117, 247 Allegory of the Cave, 191 Alternations of increase and decrease of mutability of the universe, 245-6 Alveolar froth, 33-4 Ambiguity of the idea of "generality" in philosophy, 230-1, 320-1 of primitive organisms, 99, 112, 113, 129-30 Ammophila hirsuta, paralyzing instinct in, 173 Amoeba, in illustration of imitation of the living by the unorganized, 33-6 in illustration of the ambiguity of primitive organisms, 99 in illustration of the mobility characteristic of animals, 108 in illustration of the "explosive" expenditure of energy characteristic of animals, 120, 253 Anagenesis, 34 Anarchy, idea of, 233, 234. See Disorder Anatomy, comparative, and transformism, 25 Ancient philosophy, Achilles and tortoise, 311-2 Alexandrian philosophy, 322-3 Allegory of the Cave, 191 Anima (De), 322 note Apogee of sensible object, 344, 345, 349 Archimedes, 343-4 Aristotle, 135, 174-5, 227-8, 314, 316, 321, 323, 324, 328-33, 347, 349, 353, 356, 370 Arrow of Zeno, 308-13 ascent toward God, in Aristotle, 323 Astronomy, ancient and modern, 334-6 attraction and impulsion in, 323-4 becoming in, 313-4, 317 bow and indivisibility of motion, 308-9 Caelo (De), of Aristotle, 322 note, 324 note and Cartesian geometry, 334-5 causality in, 323, 325-6 change in, 313-4, 317, 328-9, 342-3 cinematographical nature of, 315 circularity of God's thought, 323-4 concentric spheres, 328 concepts, 326-7, 356 "conversion" and "procession" in, 323 degradation of ideas into sensible flux, 317-8, 321, 323-4, 327, 328, 343-5, 352-3 degrees of reality, 323-4, 327 diminution, derivation of becoming by. See Degradation of Ideas, etc. duration, 317-9 note, 323-4, 327-9 Eleatic philosophy, 308, 314 Enneads of Plotinus, 210 note essence and accident, 354 essence or form, 314-5 eternal, 317-8, 324-6 Eternity, 317-8, 320, 324, 328-9 extension, 210 note, 318, 324, 327 form or idea, 314-20, 322, 327, 329-31, 352 geometry, Cartesian, and ancient philosophy, 334 God of Aristotle, 196-7, 322-4, 349, 352, 356 υλη, 353 Idea, 314-22, 352-3 and indivisibility of motion, 307-8, 311 intelligible reality in, 326 intelligibles of Plotinus, 353 λσγος, of Plotinus, 210 note matter in Aristotle's philosophy, 316, 327 and modern astronomy, 333-4, 335 and modern geometry, 333-4 and modern philosophy, 226-7, 228-9, 232, 281-2, 344-5, 346, 349-51, 364, 369 and modern science, 329-30, 336, 342-3, 344-5, 357 motion in, 307-8, 312-3 necessity in, 327 νοησεως νοησις, 356 non-being, 316, 327 νους ποιητικος, 322 oscillation about being, sensible reality as, 317-8 Physics of Aristotle, 227-8 note, 324 note, 330-1 Plato, 48, 156, 191, 210 note, 316-8, 321-4, 327, 330, 348, 349 Plotinus, 210, 316, 323, 326 note, 349, 352-4 procession in Alexandrian philosophy, 323 ψνχη, 210 note, 350 realism in, 232 refraction of idea through matter or non-being, 317 sectioning of becoming, 318-9 sensible reality, 314, 316-8, 321, 327-9, 352-3 σωμα, 350 space and time, 317-9, 320 Timaeus, 318 note time in ancient and in modern science, 330-1, 336-7, 341-4 time and space, 317-9, 320 vision of God in Alexandrian philosophy, 322 Zeno, 308, 313 Ancient science and modern, 329-31, 336-7, 342-5, 357 Anima (De), of Aristotle, 322 note Animal kingdom, 12, 105-6, 119-21, 126, 129, 131-2, 134-6, 137-8, 139, 179, 184-5 Animals, 105-47, 167, 170, 181, 183, 187, 212, 214, 246, 252, 253, 254, 262-5, 267, 271, 293, 301 deduction in, 212 induction in, 214 and man, 139-43, 183, 187, 188, 212, 263, 264, 267 and man in respect to brain, 183, 184-5, 263-5 and man in respect to consciousness, 139-43, 180, 183, 187, 188, 192, 212, 263-8 and man in respect to instruments of action, 139-43, 150-1 and man in respect to intelligence, 137-8, 187, 188, 191-2, 212 and plants, 105-39, 124-6, 143, 145, 146-7, 168-70, 181-2, 253, 254, 293 and plants in respect to activity of consciousness, 109, 111, 113, 119-21, 128-9, 132, 134-6, 142-3, 144, 181-2, 293 and plants in respect to function, 117-8, 121-2, 127 and plants in respect to instinct, 167, 170 and plants in respect to mobility, 109, 110, 113, 129-30, 132-3, 135, 181 and plants in respect to nature of consciousness, 134-5 Antagonistic currents of the vital impetus, 129, 135-6, 181, 184, 250, 258-9 Anthophora, 146-7 Antinomies of Kant, 204, 205 Antipathy. See Sympathy, Feeling, Divination Antithesis and thesis, 205 Ants, 101, 134, 140, 157 Ape's brain and consciousness contrasted with man's, 263 Aphasia, 181 Apidae, social instinct in the, 171 Apogee of instinct in the hymenoptera and of intelligence in man, 174-5 See Evolutionary superiority Apogee of sensible object, in philosophy of Ideas, 343-4, 349 Approximateness of the knowledge of matter, 206-7 Approximation, in matter, to the mathematical order, 218. See Order Archimedes, 333-4 Aristotle. See Ancient Philosophy, Aristotle Arrow, Flying, of Zeno, 308-9, 310, 312-3 Art, 6-7, 29 note, 45, 89, 177 Artemia Salina, transformations of, 72, 73 Arthropods in evolution, 130-5, 142 Articulate species, 133 Articulations of matter relative to action, 156, 367 of motion, 310-1 of real time, 332-3 Artificial, how far scientific knowledge is, 197, 218-9 instruments, 138, 139, 140-1 Artist, in illustration of the creativeness of duration, 340-1 Ascending cosmic movement, 11, 208, 275, 369 Ascent toward God, in Aristotle, 323 Association of organisms, 260. See Individuation universal oscillation between association and individuation, 259, 260. See Societies Astronomy and deduction, 213 and the inert order, 224 modern, in reference to ancient science, 334-6 Atmosphere of spatiality bathing intelligence, 204 Atom, 240, 254, 255 as an intellectual view of matter, 203, 250 and interpenetration, 207 Attack and defence in evolution, 131-2 Attention, 2, 148-9, 154, 184, 209 discontinuity of, 2 in man and in lower animals, 184. See Tension and instinct, Tension as inverted extension, Tension of personality, Sympathetic appreciation, etc., Relaxation and intellect Attraction and impulsion in Greek philosophy, 323, 324 Attribute and subject, 148 Automatic activity, 145 as instrument of voluntary, 252 order, 224, 231-4. See Negative movement, etc., Geometrical order Automatism, 127, 143-4, 174, 223-4, 261, 264 Background of instinct and intelligence, consciousness as, 186 Backward-looking attitude of the intellect, 47, 48, 237 Baldwin, J.M., 27 note Ballast of intelligence, 152, 230, 239, 369-70 Bastian, 212 note Bateson, 63 Becoming, 164, 236, 248-9, 273, 299-304, 307-8, 313-4, 316, 337-8, 342-3, 345, 363 in ancient philosophy, 313-4, 317 in Descartes's philosophy, 346 in Eleatic philosophy, 313-4, 315 in general, or abstract becoming, 304, 306-7 instantaneous and static views of, 272, 304-5 states of, falsely so called, 164, 247-8, 273, 298-301, 307-8 in the successors of Kant, 363. See Change, New, Duration, Time, Views of reality Bees, 101, 140, 142, 146, 166, 172 Beethoven, 224 Berthold, 34 note Bethe, 176 note Bifurcations of tendency, 54. See Divergent lines of evolution Biology, 12, 25, 26, 31-2, 43, 168-9, 174-5, 194-6 evolutionist, 168-9 and philosophy, 43, 194-6 and physico-chemistry, 26 Blaringhem, 85 Bodies, 156, 188, 189, 300-1, 360. See Inert matter as a relaxation of the unextended into the extended defined as bundles of qualities, 349 Bois-Reymond (Du), 38 Boltzmann, 245 Bombines, social instincts in, 171 Bouvier, 142 note Bow, strain of, illustrating indivisibility of motion, 308-10 Brain and consciousness, 5, 109, 110, 179-80, 183-4, 212 note, 252, 261-4, 270, 354, 356, 366. See Nervous System in man and lower animals, 183, 184, 263-5 Brandt, 66 note Breast-Plate, in reference to animal mobility, 130, 131. See Carapace, Cellulose envelope Brown-Séquard, 80-2 Bulb, medullary, in the development of the nervous system, 110, 252 Busquet, 259 note Bütschli, 33 note Buttel-Reepen, 171 note Butterflies, in illustration of variation from evolutionary type, 72 Caelo (De), of Aristotle, 322 note, 324 note Calcareous sheath, in reference to animal mobility, 130-1 Calkins, 16 note Canal, in illustration of the relation of function and structure, 93 Canalization, in illustration of the function of animal organisms, 93, 95, 110, 126, 256, 270 Canvas, embroidering "something" on the, of "nothing," 297 Caprice, an attribute not of freedom but of mechanism, 47 Carapace, in reference to animal mobility, 130-1 Carbohydrates, in reference to the function of the animal organism, 121-2 Carbon, in reference to the function of organisms, 107, 113, 114, 117, 254, 255 Carbonic acid, in reference to the function of organisms, 254, 255 Carnot, 243, 246, 256 Cartesian geometry, compared with ancient, 334 Cartesianism, 345, 356, 358 Cartesians, 358. See Spinoza, Leibniz Carving, the, of matter by intellect, 155 Categorical propositions, characteristic of instinctive knowledge, 149-50 Categories, conceptual, x, xiii, 48, 147, 148-9, 165, 189-90, 195-7, 207, 220-1, 257-60, 265, 358, 361. See Concept deduction of, and genesis of the intellect, 196, 207, 359. See Genesis of matter and of the intellect innate, 147, 148-9 misfit for the vital, x, xiii, 48, 165, 195-9, 220-1, 257-9 in reference to the adaptation to each other of the matter and form of knowledge, 361 Cats, in illustration of the law of correlation, 67 Causal relation in Aristotle, 325 between consciousness and movement, 111 in Greek philosophy, 324-5 Causality, mechanical, a category which does not apply to life, x, xiv, 177 in the philosophy of Ideas, 323-6 Causation and adaptation, 101, 102 final, involves mechanical, 44 Cause and effect as mathematical functions of each other, 20, 21 efficient, 238, 277, 323 efficient, in Aristotle's philosophy, 324 efficient, in Leibniz's philosophy, 353 final, 40, 44, 238 final, in Aristotle's philosophy, 324 by impulsion, release and unwinding, 73 mechanical, as containing effect, 14, 233, 269 in the vital order, 95, 164 Cave, Plato's allegory of the, 191 Cell, 16, 24, 33, 162, 166, 167, 260, 269 as artificial construct, 162 in the "colonial theory," 260 division, 16, 24, 33 instinct in the, 166, 167 in relation to the soul, 269 Cellulose envelope in reference to vegetable immobility and torpor, 108, 111, 130 Cerebral activity and consciousness, 5, 109-10, 180-1, 183-4, 212 note, 252, 253, 261, 264, 268, 270, 350, 351, 354, 355, 366 mechanism, 5, 252, 253, 262, 264, 366 Cerebro-spinal system, 124. See Nervous system Certainty of induction, 215, 216 Chance analogous to disorder, 233, 234. See Affection in evolution, 86-7, 104, 114-5, 126, 169-70, 171, 252, 254, 255, 266, 267, 326-7. See Indetermination Change, 1, 7-8, 18, 85-6, 248, 275, 294, 300-304, 308, 313-4, 317, 326, 328-9, 343-4, 344-5 in ancient philosophy, 313-4, 316-7, 325-6, 327-9, 343, 345 in Eleatic philosophy, 314 known only from within, 307-8 Chaos, 232. See Disorder Character, moral, 5, 99-100 Charrin, 81 note Chemistry, 27, 34-6, 55, 72, 74, 98, 194, 226, 256, 260 Child, intelligence in, 147-8 adolescence of, in illustration of evolutionary becoming, 311-3 Chipped stone, in paleontology, 139 Chlorophyllian function, 107-9, 114, 117, 246, 253 Choice, 110, 125, 143-5, 179, 180, 252, 260-4, 276, 366 and consciousness, 110, 179, 260-4 Chrysalis, 114 note Cinematograph, 306-7, 339-40 Cinematographical character of ancient philosophy, 315-6 of intellectual knowledge, 306, 307, 312-8, 323-4, 331-3, 346 of language, 306-7, 312-5 of modern science, 329-31, 336-7, 341-3, 345, 346, 347 Circle of the given, broken by action, 192, 247 logical and physical, 277 vicious, in intellectualist philosophy, 193, 197, 320 vicious, in the intuitional method is only apparent, 192, 193 Circularity of God's thought in Aristotle's philosophy, 324 of each special evolution, 128 Circulation, protoplasmic, imitated, 32-3 in plants and animals, 108 Circumstances in the determination of evolution, 101-2, 128-9, 133, 138, 142, 150-1, 167, 168, 170-1, 193, 194, 252, 256 in relation to special instincts, 138, 168, 193 Classes of words corresponding to the three kinds of representation, 303-4 Clausius, 243 Clearness characteristic of intellect, 160 Cleft between the organized and the unorganized, 190, 196-9 Climbing plants, instincts of, 170 note Coincidence of matter with space as in Kant, 206, 207, 244 of mind with intellect as in Kant, 48, 206 of qualities, 216 of seeing and willing, 237 of self with self, definition of the feeling of duration, 199-200 Coleopter, instinct in, 146 Colonial theory, 259, 260 Colonies, microbial, 259 Color variation in lizards, 72, 74 Coming and going of the mind between the without and the within gives rise to the idea of "Nothing," 279 between nature and mind, the true method of philosophy, 239 Common-sense, 29, 153, 161, 213, 224, 277 defined as continuous experience of the real, 213 Comparison of ancient philosophy with modern, 226, 228-9, 232, 328-9, 345-6, 349-51, 353-4, 356 Compenetration, 352-3. See Interpenetration Complementarity of forms evolved, xii, xiii, 51, 101, 103, 113, 116-7, 135, 136, 254, 255 of instinct and intelligence, 146, 173. See Opposition of Instinct and Intelligence of intuition and intellect, 343, 345 in the powers of life, 49, 96-7, 140-3, 177, 178-9, 183-5, 239, 246, 254, 343 of science and metaphysics, 344 Complexity of the order of mathematics, 208-10, 217, 251 Compound reflex, instinct as a, 174 Concentration, intellect as, 191, 301 of personality, 198-9, 201 Concentric spheres in Aristotle's philosophy, 328 Concept accessory to action, ix analogy of, with the solid body, ix in animals, 187 externality of, 160, 168, 175-8, 199-200, 251, 306, 311, 314 fringed about with intuition, 46 and image distinguished, 160, 279 impotent to grasp life, ix-xiii, 49 intellect the concept-making faculty, vi, 49 misfit for the vital, 48 representation of the act by which the intellect is fixed on things, 161 synthesis of, in ancient philosophy, 325-6, 356. See Categories, Externality, Frames, Image, Space, Symbol Conditions, external, in evolution, 128-9, 133, 138, 141-2, 150-1, 166-7, 168, 170, 193, 194, 251, 256, 257 external, in determination of special instinct, 141-2, 150-1, 167, 168, 171 Conduct, mechanism and finality in the evolution of, 47. See Freedom, Determination, Indetermination Confused plurality of life, 257 Conjugation of Infusoria, 16 Consciousness and action, ix, 5, 144, 145, 179-80, 207, 260-1 consciousness as appendage to action, ix consciousness as arithmetical difference between possible and real activity, 145 consciousness as auxiliary to action, 179-80 consciousness as inadequacy of act to representation, 144 consciousness as instrument of action, 180 consciousness as interval between possible and real action, 145, 179 consciousness as light from zone of possible actions surrounding the real act, 179 consciousness and locomotion, 262 consciousness plugged up by action, 144, 145. See Torpor, Sleep consciousness as sketch of action, 207 intensity of, varies with ratio of possible to real action, 145 Consciousness in animals, as distinguished from the consciousness of plants, 130, 135-6, 143 as distinguished from the consciousness of man, 139-43, 180, 183, 184, 187, 188, 212, 263-9. See Torpor, Sleep characteristic of animals, torpor of plants, 109, 111, 113, 120, 128-9, 135-6, 181, 182, 292 as background of instinct and intelligence, 186 and brain, 180, 262, 263, 269, 270, 354 and choice, 110, 144-5, 179, 262-4 coextensive with universal life, 186, 270 and creation, consciousness as demand for creation, 261 current of, penetrating matter, 181, 270 as deficiency of instinct, 145 in dog and man, 180 double form of, 179 function of, 207 as hesitation or choice, 143, 144 imprisonment of, 180, 183-4, 264 as invention and freedom, 264, 270 in man as distinguished from, in lower forms of life, 180, 263, 264, 267, 268 and matter, 179, 181-2 as motive principle of evolution, 181-2 nullified, as distinguished from the absence of consciousness, 143 and the organism, 270 in plants, 131, 135-6, 143 as world principle, 237, 261 Conservation of energy, 243, 244 Construction, 139-42, 150-1, 156, 157-8, 180, 182. See Manufacture, Solid the characteristic work of intellect, 163-4 as the method of Kant's successors, 364-5 Contingency, 96, 255, 268. See Accident, Chance the, of order, 231, 235 Continuation of vital process in instinct, 138, 139, 166, 167, 246. See Variations, Vital process Continuity, 1, 26, 29-30, 37, 138-40, 154, 162-4, 258, 302, 306-7, 311-2, 321, 325-6, 329-30, 347 of becoming, 306-7, 312 of change, 325-6 of evolution, 18, 19 of extension, 154 of germinative plasma, 26, 37 of instinct with vital process, 139, 140, 166-7, 246 of life, 1-11, 29, 163-4, 258 of living substance, 162 of psychic life, 1, 30 of the real, 302, 329-30 of sensible intuition with ultra-intellectual, 361 of sensible universe, 346 Conventionality of science, 207 "Conversion" and "procession" in Alexandrian philosophy, 323 Cook, Plato's comparison of the, and the dialectician, 156 Cope, 35 note, 77, 111 Correlation, law of, 66, 67 Correspondence between mind and matter in Spencer, 368. See Simultaneity Cortical mechanism, 252, 253, 262. See Cerebral mechanism Cosmogony and genesis of matter, 188. See Genesis of matter and of intellect, Spencer Cosmology the, that follows from the philosophy of Ideas, 315, 328 as reversed psychology, 208 Counterweight representation as, to action, 145 Counting simultaneities, the measurement of time is, 338, 341-2 Creation, xi, 7, 11, 12, 22, 29, 30, 45, 93, 100, 101, 103, 105, 108, 114, 128-31, 161, 163-4, 178, 200, 217, 218, 223, 226, 230, 237-40, 261, 270, 275, 339-40 in Descartes's philosophy, 345 of intellect, 248-9 of matter, 237, 239, 247-8, 249. See Materiality the inversion of spirituality of present by past, 5, 20-3, 27, 167, 199-202 the vital order as, 230 Creative evolution, 7, 15, 21, 27, 29, 36, 37, 65, 100, 104-5, 161, 163, 223-4, 230-1, 237, 264, 269 Creativeness of free action, 192, 243 of invention, 250 Creeping plants in illustration of vegetable mobility, 108 Cricket victim of paralyzing instinct of sphex, 172 Criterion, quest of a, 53 ff. of evolutionary rank, 133, 265 Criticism, Kantian, 205, 287 note, 356, 360-2 of knowledge, 194-5 Cross-cuts through becoming by intellect, 314. See Views of reality through matter by perception, 206 Cross-roads of vital tendency, 51, 52, 54, 110, 126 Crustacea, 19, 111, 129-30 Crystal illustrating (by contrast) individuation, 12 Cuénot, 79 note Culminating points of evolutionary progress, 50, 133-5. See Evolutionary superiority Current, 26, 27, 51, 185, 236, 237, 250, 266, 269 Currents, antagonistic, 250 of existence, 185 of life penetrating matter, 26, 27, 266, 270 vital, 26, 27, 51, 237, 266, 270 of will penetrating matter, 237 Curves, as symbol of life, 32, 90, 213 Cuts through becoming by the intellect, 313-4. See Views of reality, Snapshots in illustration, etc. through matter by perception, 206 Cuvier, 125 note Dantec (Le), 18 note, 34 note Darwin, 62-5, 66, 72, 108, 170 note Darwinism, 56, 85, 86 Dastre, 36 note Dead, the, is the object of intellect, 165 Dead-locks in speculation, 155, 312 Death, 246 note, 271 Declivity descended by matter, 208, 246, 256, 339-40. See Descending movement Decomposing and recomposing powers characteristic of intellect, 157, 251 Deduction, analogy between, related to moral sphere and tangent to curve, 213 and astronomy, 213 duration refractory to, 213 geometry the ideal limit of, 213-26, 361 in animals, 212 inverse to positive spiritual effort, 212 nature of, 211 physics and, 213 weakness of, in psychology and moral science, 213 Defence and attack in evolution, 132 Deficiency of will the negative condition of mathematical order and complexity, 209 Definition in the realm of life, 13, 105, 106 Degenerates, 133-5 Dégénérescence sénile (La), by Metchnikoff, 18 note Degradation of energy, 241, 242, 246 of the extra-spatial into the spatial, 207 of the ideas into the sensible flux in ancient philosophy, 317-9, 324-5, 327-9, 331, 343, 345, 352-3 Degrees of being in the successors of Kant, 362-3 Degrees of reality in Greek philosophy, 324, 327 Delage, 59 note, 81 note, 260 note Delamare, 81 note Deliberation, 144 De Manacéine, 124 note Deposit, instinct and intelligence as deposits, emanations, issues, or aspects of life, x, xii, xiii, 49, 103, 105, 136, 365 De Saporta, 107 note Descartes, 280, 334, 345, 346, 353, 358 becoming, 345-6 creation, 346 determinism, 345 duration, 346 freedom, 345, 346 geometry, 334 God, 346 image and idea or concept, 281 indeterminism, 345 mechanism, 345, 346 motion, 346 vacillation between abstract time and real duration, 345 Descending movement of existence, 11, 202, 203, 208, 271, 275, 369 Design, motionless, of action the object of intellect, 154-5, 299, 301-2, 303 Detention in the dream state, 202 of intuition in intellect, 238 Determination, 76-7, 129-30, 223, 246 Determinism, 217, 264, 345, 348. See Inert matter, Geometry in Descartes, 345 Development, 133, 134-5, 141. See Order, Progress, Evolution, Superiority Deviation from type, 82-4 Dialect and intuition in philosophy, 238 Dichotomy of the real in modern philosophy, 350 Differentiation of parts in an organism, 253, 260 Dilemma of any systematic metaphysics, 195, 197, 230 Diminution, derivation of becoming from being by, in ancient philosophy, 316, 317, 322, 323-4, 327-8, 343-5, 352 geometrical order as, or lower complication of the vital order, 236 Dionaea illustrating certain animal characteristics in plants, 107, 108, 109 Discontinuity of action, 154, 306-7 of attention, 2 of extension relative to action, 154, 163 of knowledge, 306 of living substance, 163 a positive idea, 154 Discontinuous the object of intellect, 154 Discord in nature, 127, 128, 254-5, 267 Disorder, 40, 104, 222-3, 225-6, 232-5, 274. See Expectation, Order, mathematical, Orders of reality, two Disproportion between an invention and its consequences, 182 Dissociation as a cosmic principle opposed to association, 260 of tendencies, 54, 89, 135, 254, 255, 257, 258. See Divergent lines of evolution Distance, extension as the, between what is and what ought to be, 318-9, 327-8, 331 Distinct multiplicity in the dream state, 201, 210 of the inert, 257 Distinctness characteristic of the intellect, 160, 237, 251 characteristic of perception, 227, 251 as spatiality, 203, 207-8, 244, 250 Divergent lines of evolution, xii, 54, 55, 87, 97-101, 103-4, 106, 107, 109, 112, 113, 116, 119, 130, 132, 134-5, 142, 149, 150, 168, 173, 181, 254, 255, 266, 267. See Dissociation of tendencies, Complementarity, etc., Schisms in the primitive impulsion of life Diversity, sensible, 205, 220-1, 231, 235, 236 Divination, instinct as, 176. See Sympathy, etc. Divisibility of extension, 154, 162 Division as function of intellect, 152, 154, 162-3, 189 of labor, 99, 110, 118, 157, 166, 260 of labor in cells, 166 Dog and man, consciousness in, 180 Dogmatism of the ancient epistemology contrasted with the relativism of the modern, 230 of Leibniz and Spinoza, 356-7 skepticism, and relativism, 196-7, 230 Dogs and the law of correlation, 66 Domestication of animals and heredity, 80 Dominants of Reinke, 42 note Dorfmeister, 72 Dream, 144, 180-1, 202, 209, 256. See Interpenetration, Relaxation, Detention, Recollection as relaxation, 202 Driesch, 42 note Drosera, 107, 108, 109 Dufourt, 124 note Duhem, 242 note Dunan, Ch., xv note Duration, xiv note, 2, 4-6, 8-11, 15, 17, 21, 22, 37, 39, 46, 51, 199, 201, 206, 213, 216, 240, 272, 273, 276, 298-9, 308-9, 317-8, 319 note, 324, 328, 332, 339, 342, 343, 345, 354, 361, 363-4 absoluteness of, 206 and deduction, 213 in Descartes's philosophy, 346 gnawing of, 4, 8, 46 indivisibility of, 6, 308-9 and induction, 216 and the inert, 343-4 in the philosophy of the Ideas, 316-7, 319 note, 324, 327, 328-9 rhythm of, 11, 128, 346. See Creation, Evolution, Invention, Time, Unforeseeableness, Uniqueness Echinoderms in reference to animal mobility, 130, 131 Efficient cause in conception of chance, 234 Spinoza and, 269 Effort in evolution, 170 Ειδος, 314-5 Eimer, 55, 72, 73, 86 Elaborateness of the mathematical order, 208-10, 217, 251 Eleatic philosophy, 308, 314-5 Emanation, logical thought an, issue, aspect or deposit of life, ix, xii, xiii, 49 Embroidering "something" on the canvas of "nothing," 297 Embroidery by descendants on the canvas handed down by ancestors, 23 Embryo, 18, 19, 26, 27, 75, 81, 89, 101, 166 Embryogeny, comparative, and transformism, 25 Embryonic life, 27, 166 Empirical study of evolution the centre of the theory of knowledge and of the theory of life, 178 theories of knowledge, 205 Empty, thinking the full by means of the empty, 273-4 End in Eleatic philosophy, 314-5 of science is practical utility, 329 Energy, 115-7, 120-3, 242, 243, 245, 246, 252-5, 256, 257, 262 conservation of, 242 degradation of, 242, 243, 246 solar, stored by plants, released by animals, 245, 254 Enneadae of Plotinus, 210 note Entelechy of Driesch, 42 note Entropy, 243 Environment in evolution, 129, 133, 138, 140, 142, 150, 167, 168, 170, 192, 193, 252, 256, 257 and special instincts, 138, 168, 192, 193 Epiphenomenalism, 262 Essence and accidents in Aristotle's philosophy, 353 or form in Eleatic philosophy, 314-5 the meaning of, 302-3 Essences (or forms), qualities and acts, the three kinds of representation, 303-4 Eternity, 39, 298, 314, 317, 320, 324, 328, 346, 352, 354 in the philosophy of Ideas, 316-7, 319, 324, 328 in Spinoza's philosophy, 353 Euglena, 116 Evellin, 311 note Eventual actions, 11, 96. See Possible activity Evolution, ix-xv, 18, 20, 22, 24, 25, 26-7, 37, 46-55, 63, 68, 79 note, 84-8, 97-105, 107, 113, 116, 126, 127, 129-30, 131-2, 133, 134, 136, 138-40, 141-2, 143, 161, 166, 167, 168-72, 173, 174, 175, 179, 181, 182, 185, 186, 190, 193, 198-9, 207-8, 224, 231, 242 note, 246, 248, 249, 251, 252, 254, 264-6, 268, 273, 302, 311, 345, 359, 360, 366 accident in, 104, 169, 170, 173, 174, 251, 252 animal, a progress toward mobility, 131 antagonistic tendencies in, 103, 113, 185 automatic and determinate, is action being undone, 248 blind alleys of, 129 circularity of each special, 128 complementarity of the divergent lines of, 97-102, 103, 116 conceptually inexpressible, 49, 50, 52, 53, 127, 181, 273 continuity of, 18, 19, 26, 37, 46, 273, 302, 312, 345 creative, 7, 15, 21, 27, 30, 36, 37, 65, 100, 105, 161, 162, 163, 223, 230, 238, 264, 269 culminating points of, 50, 133, 174, 185, 265, 266, 268 development by, 133, 134, 141-2 divergent lines of, xii, 53, 54, 87, 97-101, 103-4, 107, 173-4, 246 and duration, 20, 22, 37, 45-6 empirical study of, the centre of the theory of knowledge and of life, 178 and environment, 101-3, 129, 133, 138, 142, 150, 167, 168, 169, 192, 193, 251, 256, 257 of instinct, 170, 171, 174-5. See Divergent lines, etc., Culminating points, etc., Evolution and environment of intellect, x-xii, 153, 186, 189-90, 193, 198-9, 207-8, 359, 360. See Divergent lines, etc., Culminating points, etc., Genesis of matter and of intellect as invention, 344 of man, 264, 266, 268. See Culminating points, etc. motive principle of, is consciousness, 181 of species product of the vital impetus opposed by matter, 247-8, 254 and transformism, 24 unforeseeable, 47, 48, 53, 86, 224 variation in, 23-4, 55, 63, 68, 72 note, 85, 131, 137-8, 167, 169, 171, 264 Evolutionary, qualitative, and extensive motion 302-3, 311, 312 superiority, 133-5, 174-5. See Success, Criterion of evolutionary rank, Culminating points, etc. Evolutionism, x-xii, xiv, 77, 84, 364 Exhaustion of the mutability of the universe, 337-8 Existence, logical, as contrasted with psychical and physical, 276, 362 of matter tends toward instantaneity, 201 of self means change, 1 ff. superaddition of, upon nothingness, 276 Expectation, 214-6, 221, 222, 226, 233, 235, 274, 281, 292 in conception of disorder, 221, 222, 226, 233, 234, 235, 274 in conception of void or naught, 282, 292 Experience, 138, 147, 177, 197, 204, 229, 321, 354, 359, 363, 368 Explosion, illustrating cause by release, 73 Explosive character of animal energy, 116, 119, 120, 246 of organization, 92 Explosives, manufacture of, by plants and use by animals, 246, 254 Extension, 149, 154, 161, 202, 203, 207, 211, 223, 236, 245, 318-20, 324, 327, 351, 352 continuity of, 154 discontinuity of, relative to action, 154, 162 as the distance between what is and what ought to be, 318 divisibility of, 154, 162 the most general property of matter, 154, 250, 251 the inverse movement to tension, 245 of knowledge, 150 in Leibniz's philosophy, 351, 352 of matter in space, 204, 211 in the philosophy of Ideas, 318-9, 323-4, 327 and relaxation, 202, 207, 209, 211, 212, 218, 223, 245 in Spinoza's philosophy, 350 in the Transcendental Aesthetic, 203 unity of, 158-9 as weakening of the essence of being, in Plotinus, 210 note Extensive, evolutionary and qualitative motion, 302-3, 311, 312 External conditions in evolution, 128, 133, 137, 141-2, 150-1, 167, 168, 170, 192, 193, 252, 256, 257 finality, 41 Externality of concepts, 160, 168, 174, 177, 199, 251, 305, 311-4 the most general property of matter, 154, 250, 251 Externalized action in distinction from internalized, 147, 165. See Somnambulism, etc., Automatic activity, etc. Eye of mollusc and vertebrate compared, 60, 75, 77, 84, 86, 87-8 Fabre, 172 note Fabrication. See Construction Fallacies, two fundamental, 272, 273 Fallacy of thinking being by not-being, 276, 277, 284, 297-8 of thinking the full by the empty, 273-5 of thinking motion by the motionless, 272, 273, 297-8, 307-8, 309-14 Fallibility of instinct, 172-3 Falling back of matter upon consciousness, 264 bodies, comparison of Aristotle and Galileo, 228, 331-2, 334 weight, figure of material world, 245, 246 Familiar, the, is the object of intellect, 163, 164, 199, 270 Faraday, 203 Fasting, in reference to primacy of nervous system over the other physiological systems, 124 Fauna, menace of torpor in primitive, 130 Feeling in the conception of chance, 207 and instinct, 143, 174-5 Fencing-master, illustrating hereditary transmission, 79 Ferments, certain characteristics of, 106 Fertilization of orchids by insects, by Darwin, 170 note Fichte's conception of the intellect, 189-90, 357 Filings, iron, in illustration of the relation of structure to function, 94, 95 Film, cinematographic, figure of abstract motion, 304-6 Final cause, 40, 45, 234, 325 conception of, involves conception of mechanical cause, 44 God as, in Aristotle, 322-3 Finalism, 39-53, 58, 74, 88-97, 101-5, 126-8 Finality, 41, 164, 177-8, 185, 223, 224, 266 external and internal, 41 misfit for the vital, 177, 223-4, 225, 266 and the unforeseeableness of life, 164, 185 Fischel, 75 note Fish in illustration of animal tendency to mobility, 130, 131 Fixation of nutritive elements, 107-9, 113, 117, 246, 247, 253 Fixity, 108-13, 118, 119, 130, 155. See Torpor apparent or relative, 155 cellulose envelope and the, of plants, 108, 111, 130 of extension, 155 of plants, 108-13, 118, 119, 130-1 of torpid animals, 130 Flint hatchets and human intelligence, 137 Fluidity of life, 153, 165, 193 of matter as a whole, 186, 369 Flux of material bodies, 265 of reality, 250, 251, 337, 342, 344 Flying arrow of Zeno, 308, 309, 310 Focalization of personality, 201 Food, 106-9, 113-4, 117, 120, 121, 246, 247, 254 Foraminifera, failure of certain, to evolve, 197 Force, 126-7, 141, 149, 150, 175, 246, 254, 339 life a, inverse to matter, 246 limitedness of vital force, 126, 127, 141, 149, 162 time as, 339-40 Forel, 176 note Foreseeing, 8, 28, 29, 30, 37, 45, 47, 96. See Unforeseeableness Form, xi, 51, 101, 104, 113, 116-8, 129, 135-6, 148-53, 155, 156, 160, 164, 195-7, 222, 237, 250, 255, 302, 303, 314, 317, 318, 322, 341, 357, 359, 361, 362 complementarity of forms evolved, xi, 51, 101, 104, 113, 116-8, 135-6, 255 expansion of the forms of consciousness, xii, xiii (or essences), qualities and acts the three kinds of representation, 302-3 God as pure form in Aristotle, 196, 322 or idea in ancient philosophy, 317, 318, 330 of intelligence, xiv, 48, 147, 148, 165, 190, 195, 196, 198, 207, 219, 257-9, 266, 358-9, 361. See Concept and matter in creation, 239, 250 and matter in knowledge, 195, 361 a snapshot view of transition, 302 Formal knowledge, 152 logic, 292 Forms of sensibility, 361 Fossil species, 102 Foster, 125 note Fox in illustration of animal intelligence, 138 Frames of the understanding, 46-7, 48, 150-2, 173, 177, 197-9, 219-20, 223-4, 258, 270, 313, 358, 364 fit the inert, 197, 218 inadequate to reality entire, 364 misfit for the vital, x, xiii, xiv, 46, 48, 173, 177, 197-9, 223, 258, 313 product of life, 358 transform freedom into necessity, 270 utility of, lies in their unlimited application, 149-50, 152 Freedom, 11, 48, 126, 130, 163, 164, 200, 202, 207, 208, 217, 223, 231, 237, 239, 247, 249, 264-6, 269, 270, 277, 300, 339-41, 345, 346 the absolute as freely acting, 277 affirmed by conscience, 269 animal characteristic rather than vegetable, 129-30 caprice attribute not of, but of mechanism, 47 coextensiveness of consciousness with, 111, 112, 202, 264, 270 of creation and life, 247, 254, 255 creativeness of, 223, 239, 248 in Descartes's philosophy, 345, 346 as efficient causality, 277 inversion of necessity, 236 and liberation of consciousness, 265, 266. See Imprisonment of consciousness and novelty, 12, 163, 164, 200, 218, 231, 239, 249, 270, 339-42 order in, 223 property of every organism, 129-31 relaxation of, into necessity, 217 tendency of, to self-negation in habit, 127 tension of, 200, 201, 202, 207, 223, 237, 301 transformed by the understanding into necessity, 270 See Spontaneity Fringe of intelligence around instinct, 136 of intuition around intellect, xii, xiii, 46 of possible action around real action, 179, 272 Froth, alveolar, in imitation of organic phenomena, 33-4 Full, fallacy of thinking the, by the empty, 273-6 Function, ix, 3, 5, 44, 46, 47, 88-90, 94, 95, 106-10, 113, 114, 117, 120, 121, 127, 132, 140, 141, 145, 152, 153, 157, 161, 163, 164, 168, 173-5, 186-92, 199, 206, 207, 233, 237, 246, 251, 254-6, 262, 263, 270, 273, 298, 306, 346, 358, 369 accumulation of energy the function of vegetable organisms, 254, 255 action the, of intellect, ix, 12, 44, 47, 93, 161, 162, 186-8, 206, 251, 273, 305 action the, of nervous system, 262, 263 alimentation, 106, 107, 120, 121, 246, 254 of animals is canalization of energy, 93, 110, 126, 255, 256 carbon and the, of organisms, 107, 113, 114, 117, 254, 255 chlorophyllian, 107-9, 114, 117, 246, 254 concept-making the, of intellect, x, 49 of consciousness: sketching movements, 207 construction the, of intellect, 108 illumination of action, of perception, 5, 206, 307-8 of intelligence: action, ix, 12, 44, 46, 93, 160, 162, 186-8, 206, 251, 273, 307-8 of intelligence: concept-making, x, 50 of intelligence: construction, 160, 163, 181-2 of intelligence: division, 154, 155, 162, 189 of intelligence: illumination of action by perception, 5, 206, 301 of intelligence: repetition, 164, 199, 214-6 of intelligence: retrospection, 47, 237 of intelligence: connecting same with same, 199, 233, 270 of intelligence: scanning the rhythm of the universe, 346 of intelligence: tactualizing all perception, 168 of intelligence: unification, 152, 154, 357 of the nervous system: action, 262, 263 and organ, 88-90, 94, 95, 132-3, 140, 141, 158. See Function and structure and organ in arthropods, vertebrates and man, 132-3 of the organism, 94, 106-10, 112, 114, 117, 120, 126, 173-5, 246, 253-6 of the organism, alimentation, 106, 107, 120, 121, 246, 254 of the organism, animal: canalization of energy, 93, 110, 126, 255, 256 of the organism, carbon in, 107, 113, 114, 117, 254, 255 of the organism, chlorophyllian function, 107-9, 114, 117, 246, 247, 254 of the organism, primary functions of life: storage and expenditure of energy, 254-6 of the organism, vegetable: accumulation of energy, 254, 255 of philosophy: adoption of the evolutionary movement of life and consciousness, 370 of science, 168, 346 sketching movements the, of consciousness, 207 and structure, 55, 62, 66, 69, 74, 75, 76, 86, 88-91, 93, 94, 96, 118, 132, 140, 141, 158, 162, 250, 252, 256 tactualizing all perception the, of science, 168 of vegetable organism: accumulation of energy, 254, 255 Functions of life, the two: storage and expenditure of energy, 254-6 Galileo, homogeneity of time in, 332 his influence on metaphysics, 20, 228 his influence on modern science, 334, 335 extension of Galileo's physics, 357, 370 his theory of the fall of bodies compared with Aristotle's, 228, 331, 332, 334 Ganoid breast-plate of ancient fishes, in reference to animal mobility, 130, 131 Gaudry, 130 note Genera, relation of, to individuals, 226 relation of, to laws, 225, 226, 330 potential, 226-7 and signs, 158 Generality, ambiguity of the idea of, in philosophy, 229-31, 236 Generalization dependent on repetition, 230, 231 distinguished from transference of sign, 158 in the vital and mathematical orders, 224, 225, 230 Generic, type of the: similarity of structure between generating and generated, 223, 224 Genesis, xiii, xiv, 153, 186-199, 207, 359, 360 of intellect, xiii, xiv, 153, 186, 187, 190, 193, 194, 196-7, 207, 264, 360 of knowledge, 191 of matter, xiii, xiv, 153, 186, 188, 190, 193, 199, 207, 360 Genius and the willed order, 223, 237 Genus. See Genera Geometrical, the, is the object of the intellect, 190 Geometrical order as a diminution or lower complication of the vital, 223, 225, 236, 330. See Genera, Relation of, to laws mutual contingency of, and vital order, 235 See Mathematical order space, relation of, to the spatiality of things, 203 Geometrism, the latent, of intellect, 194, 211-3 Geometry, fitness of, to matter, 10 goal of intellectual operations, 211, 213, 218 ideal limit of induction and deduction, 214-8, 361. See Space, Descending movement of existence modern, compared with ancient, 36, 161, 333-4 natural, 194, 211-2 perception impregnated with, 205, 230 reasoning in, contrasted with reasoning concerning life, 7, 8 scientific, 161, 211 Germ, accidental predisposition of, in Neo-Darwinism, 168, 169, 170 Germ-plasm, continuity of, 27, 37, 78-83 Giard, 84 Glucose in organic function, 122, 123 Glycogen in organic function, 122-4 God, as activity, 249 of Aristotle, 196, 322, 325, 349, 353, 356-7 ascent toward, in Aristotle's philosophy, 322-3 circularity of God's thought, in Aristotle's philosophy, 324, 325 in Descartes's philosophy, 346, 347 as efficient cause in Aristotle's philosophy, 324 as hypostasis of the unity of nature, 196, 322, 357 in Leibniz's philosophy, 352, 353, 356-7 as eternal matter, 196-7 as pure form, 196-7, 322 in Spinoza's philosophy, 351, 357 Greek philosophy. See Ancient philosophy Green parts of plants, 107-9, 114, 117, 246, 247, 254 Growing old, 15 Growth, creation is, 240-1, 275 and novelty, 231 of the powers of life, 132, 134-5 reality is, 237 of the universe, 343, 345 Guérin, P., 59 note Guinea-pig, in illustration of hereditary transmission, 80, 81 Habit and consciousness annulled, 143 form of knowledge a habit or bent of attention, 148 and heredity, 78, 93, 169, 170, 173. See Acquired characters, inheritance of instinct as an intelligent, 173-4 and invention in animals, 264 and invention in man, 265 tendency of freedom to self-negation in, 127-8 Harmony between instinct and life, and between intelligence and the inert, 187, 194-5, 198 of the organic world is complementarity due to a common original impulse 50, 51, 103, 116, 118 pre-established, 205, 206 in radical finalism, 127-8. See Discord Hartog, 60 note Hatchets, ancient flint, and human intellect, 137 Heliocentric radius-vector in Kepler's laws, 333-4 Hereditary transmission, 76-83, 87, 168-9, 170, 173, 225-6, 230 domestication of animals and, 80-1 habit and, 79, 83, 169, 170, 173 Hesitation or choice, consciousness as, 143, 144 Heteroblastia and identical structures on divergent lines of evolution, 75 Heymons, 72 note History as creative evolution, 6, 15, 21, 26, 29, 36, 37, 65-6, 103-4, 105, 163, 264, 269 of philosophy, 238 Hive as an organism, 166 Homo faber, designation of human species, 139 Homogeneity of space, 156, 212 the sphere of intellect, 163 of time in Galileo, 332 Horse-fly illustrating the object of instinct, 146 Houssay, 109 note Human and animal attention, 184 and animal brain, 184, 263-5 and animal consciousness, 139-43, 180, 183, 184, 187, 188, 191, 212, 263-8 and animal instruments of action, 139-43, 150 and animal intelligence, 138, 187, 188, 191, 192, 212 and animal invention, relation of, to habit, 264, 265 intellect and language, 157-8 intellect and manufacture, 137, 138 Humanity in evolution, 134, 137-9, 142, 147, 158, 181, 184, 185, 264-71. See Culminating points, etc. goal of evolution, 266, 267 Huxley, 38 Hydra and individuality, 13 υλη of Aristotle, 353 Hymenoptera, the culmination of arthropod and instinctive evolution, 134, 173-4 as entomologists, 146, 172-3 organization and instinct in, 140 paralyzing instinct of, 146, 172, 173-4 social instincts of, 101, 171 Hypostasis of the unity of nature, God as, 196-7, 322, 356 Hypothetical propositions characteristic of intellectual knowledge, 149-50 Idea or form in ancient philosophy, 49, 314, 316-7, 318, 329-30 in ancient philosophy, ειδος, 314-5 in ancient philosophy, Platonic, 48 and image in Descartes, 280 Idealism, 232 Idealists and realists alike assume the possibility of an absence of order, 220, 232 Identical structures in divergent lines of evolution, 55, 60-1, 62, 69, 74-7, 86, 119 Illumination of action the function of perception, 5, 206, 307 Image and idea in Descartes, 280 distinguished from concept, 160-1, 280 Imitation of being in Greek philosophy, 324, 327 of instinct by science, 168-9, 173-4 of life in intellectual representation, 4, 33, 88-9, 101, 176, 208, 209, 213, 226, 259, 341, 365 of life by the unorganized, 33, 35, 36 of motion by intelligence, 305, 307-8, 312, 313, 329. See Imitation of the real, etc. of the physical order by the vital, 230 of the real by intelligence, 258, 270, 307 Immobility of extension, 155 and plants, 108-13, 118, 119, 130 of primitive and torpid animals, 130-1 relative and apparent; mobility real, 155 Impatience, duration as, 10, 339-40 Impelling cause, 73 Impetus, vital, divergence of, 26-7, 51-5, 97-105, 110, 118-9, 126-7, 131, 134-6, 257, 258, 266, 270 vital, limitedness of, 126, 141, 148-9, 254 vital, loaded with matter, 239 vital, as necessity for creation, 252, 261 vital, transmission of, through organisms, 25, 27, 79, 85, 87, 88, 230, 231, 250, 251 vital, See Impulse of life Implement, the animal, is natural: the human, artificial, 139-43 artificial, 137-40, 150-1 constructing, function of intelligence, 159, 182-3 life known to intelligence only as, 162 matter known to intelligence only as, 161, 198 natural, 141, 145, 150 organized, 141, 145, 150 unorganized, 137-9, 141, 150-1 Implicit knowledge, 148 Impotence of intellect and perception to grasp life, 176-8 Imprisonment of consciousness, 180-3, 264-6 Impulse of life, divergence of, 26, 27, 51-5, 97-105, 110, 118-9, 126-7, 131, 134-6, 257, 258, 266, 270 limitedness of, 126, 141, 148-9, 254 loaded with matter, 239 tendency to mobility, 131, 132 as necessity for creation, 252, 261 negates itself, 247, 248 prolonged in evolution, 246 prolonged in our will, 239 transmitted through generations of organisms, 25, 26, 79, 85, 87, 230, 231 unity of, 202, 250, 270 Impulsion and attraction in Greek philosophy, 323-4 release and unwinding, the three kinds of cause, 73 given to mind by matter, 202 Inadequacy of act to representation, consciousness as, 143 Inadequate and adequate in Spinoza, 353 Inanition, illustrating primacy of nervous system, 124 note Incoherence, 236. See Absence of order, Chance, Chaos in nature, 104 Incommensurability of free act with conceptual idea, 47, 201 of instinct and intelligence, 167-8, 175 Incompatibility of developed tendencies, 104, 168 Independent variable, time as, 20, 335-6 Indetermination, 86, 114, 126, 252, 253, 326. See Accident in evolution Indeterminism in Descartes, 345 Individual, viewed by intelligence as aggregate of molecules and of facts, 250-1 and division of labor, 140 in evolutionist biology, 169, 171, 246 note and genus, 226-9 mind in philosophy, 191 aesthetic intuition only attains the, 177 and society, 260, 265 transmits the vital impetus, 250, 259, 270 Individuality never absolute, x, 12, 13, 16, 19, 42, 260 and age, 15-23, 27, 43 corporeal, physics tends to deny, 188, 189, 208. See Interpenetration, Obliteration of outlines, Solidarity of the parts of matter and generality, 226-8 the many and the one in the idea of, x, 258 as plan of possible influence, 11 Individuation never absolute, x, 12-16, 43, 260 as a cosmic principle in contrast with association, 259-60 property of life, 12-5 partly the work of matter, 257-8, 259, 270 Indivisibility of action, 94, 95 of duration, 6, 308 of invention, 164 of life, 225, 270-1. See Unity of life of motion, 307-11 Induction in animals, 214 certainty of, approached as factors approach pure magnitudes, 222, 223 and duration, 216 and expectation, 214-6 geometry the ideal limit of, 214-8, 361. See Space, Geometry, Reasoning, "Descending" movement of matter, etc. and magnitude, 215, 216 repetition the characteristic function of intellect, 164, 199, 205-16 and space, 216. See Space as the ideal limit, Systems, etc. Industry, ix, 161, 162, 164 Inert matter and action, 96, 136, 141, 155, 187, 198, 225, 367 in Aristotle, 316, 327, 353 bodies, 7, 8, 12, 14, 20, 21, 156, 159, 174, 186, 188, 189, 204, 213, 215, 228, 240, 241, 298, 300, 341, 342, 346-8, 360 Creation of. See Inert matter the inversion of life flux of, 186, 265, 273, 369 and form, 148, 149, 157, 239, 250 genesis of, 188 homogeneity of, 156 imitation of living matter by, 33, 35, 36 imitation of physical order by vital, 230 instantaneity of, 10, 201 and intellect, ix, 31, 141, 159-62, 164, 165, 167-8, 175, 179, 181, 186, 187, 195, 196, 197, 198, 205-12, 216-9, 224, 264, 270, 319, 369 the inversion or interruption of life, 93, 94, 98, 99, 128-9, 153, 177, 186, 189, 190, 196, 197, 201, 203, 208, 216-9, 231, 235, 236, 239, 240, 245-50, 252, 254, 256, 258, 259, 261, 264, 267, 272, 276, 319, 339-40, 343. See Inert matter, order inherent in knowledge of, approximate but not relative, 206 the metaphysics and the physics of, 195-6 as necessity, 252, 264 the order inherent in, 40, 103, 153, 201, 207-12, 216, 226-7, 230-6, 245, 251, 263, 274, 319-20. See Inert matter, inversion of life penetration of, by life, 25, 26, 51, 179, 181, 237, 239, 266, 270, 271 and perception, 12, 206, 226 and the psychical, 201, 202, 205, 269, 270, 350, 367 solidarity of the parts of, 188, 202, 207, 241, 257-9, 270, 271, 352 and space, 10, 153, 189, 204-11, 214, 244, 250, 251, 257 in Spencer's philosophy, 365 Inertia, 176, 224 Infant, intelligence in, 147, 148 Inference a beginning of invention, 138 Inferiority in evolutionary rank, 174-5 Influence, possible, 11, 189 Infusoria, conjugation of, 15 development of the eye from its stage in, 60-1, 72, 78, 84 and individuation, 260 and mechanical explanations, 34, 35 vegetable function in, 116 Inheritance of acquired characters. See Hereditary transmission Innate knowledge, 146-7, 150-1 Innateness of the categories, 148, 149-50 Inorganic matter. See Inert matter Insectivorous plants, 107-9 Insects, 19, 101, 107, 126, 131, 134, 135, 140-1, 146, 147, 157, 166, 169, 171-5, 188 apogee of instinct in hymenoptera, 134, 173-4 consciousness and instinct, 145, 167, 173 continuity of instinct with organization, 139, 145 fallibility of instinct in, 172-3 instinct in general in, 169, 173-4 language of ants, 157-8 object of instinct in, 146 paralyzing instinct in, 146, 171, 172-3 social instinct in, 101, 157-8, 171 special instincts as variations on a theme, 167. See Arthropods in evolution Insensible variation, 63, 66 Inspiration of a poem an undivided intuitive act, contrasted with its intellectual imitation in words, 209, 210, 258. See Sympathy Instantaneity of the intellectual view, 31, 70, 84, 89, 199, 201-2, 207, 226, 249, 258, 273, 300-6, 311, 314, 331-3, 342, 351, 352, Instinct and action on inert matter, 136, 141 in animals as distinguished from plants, 170 in cells, 166 and consciousness, 143-5, 166, 167, 173, 174, 175, 186 culmination of, in evolution, 133, 174-5. See Arthropods in evolution, Evolutionary superiority fallibility of, 173-4 in insects in general, 169, 173-4 and intelligence, xii, 51, 100, 103, 113, 116-8, 132-7, 141-3, 145, 150, 152, 159, 168-70, 173-9, 184-5, 186, 197-8, 238, 246, 254, 255, 259,267, 268, 343, 345, 366 and intuition, 177, 178-9, 181 object of, 146-52, 165, 168, 172-9, 186, 189, 195, 234, 254 and organization, 23-4, 138-40, 145, 166-8, 171-2, 173, 176, 193, 194, 264 paralyzing, in certain hymenoptera, 146, 171, 172-3 in plants, 170, 171 social, of insects, 101, 157-8, 171 Instinctive knowledge, 148, 167, 168, 173-4 learning, 193 metaphysics, 192, 269, 270, 277 Instrument, action as, of consciousness, 180 animal, is natural; human artificial, 139-43 automatic activity as instrument of voluntary, 252 consciousness as, of action, 180 intelligence: the function of intelligence is to construct instruments, 159, 192-3 intelligence transforms life into an, 162 intelligence transforms matter into an, 161, 198 intelligence: the instruments of intelligence are artificial, ix, 137-9, 140-1, 150-1 natural or organized instruments of instinct, 140-1, 145, 150 Intellect and action, ix, 11, 29, 44-8, 93, 136, 142, 152-7, 162, 179, 186, 187, 192, 195, 197-8, 219, 220, 226-9, 251, 270, 273, 297-9, 301, 302, 306, 329, 346-7 in animals, 187 Fichte's conception of the, 189, 190, 357 function of the, 5, 11, 12, 44-50, 92, 93, 126, 137-45, 149-60, 162-4, 168, 174, 176, 181, 187-99, 204-8, 214-9, 229, 233, 237, 241, 242, 246, 247, 251, 270, 290, 298, 299, 328, 336, 337, 341, 342, 347, 348, 356, 357 genesis of the, xi-xv, 49, 103, 104-5, 126-7, 152, 153, 186, 187, 189, 193, 194, 195, 198, 207, 247-9, 358, 359, 366 as inversion of intuition, 7, 8, 11, 12, 46, 49, 51, 86, 88-91, 93, 94, 103-4, 113, 116-8, 129, 132, 133, 135, 136, 139-43, 145, 157, 161, 168-80, 181, 183, 184, 185, 190-204, 207-12, 216-8, 221, 223, 225-6, 230-3, 235, 236, 238, 245-52, 254-9, 264, 267-71, 276, 277, 313, 330, 339, 342-5, 361, 369 and language, 4, 148, 158-60, 258, 265, 292, 303, 304, 312, 313, 326 and matter, ix-xv, 10, 11, 48-9, 92, 135, 136, 141, 142, 152-4, 155, 160, 161, 165, 168, 175, 179, 181, 182, 186-7, 190, 193, 194, 195, 198, 199, 201-4, 205-10, 213, 215, 218-20, 224, 225-30, 240-2, 245, 246, 248-52, 254, 256-9, 264, 270, 271, 272, 273, 275, 297-8, 306, 319, 321, 329, 340, 341-3, 347-9, 355, 358-61, 368, 369 mechanism of the, ix-xv, 4, 30, 32, 47-9, 70, 84-5, 88-9, 101, 137-8, 150-5, 156-7, 160, 161, 164, 165, 167, 168, 173, 174, 176, 177, 186, 187, 190-3, 194-218, 223-40, 244, 246-7, 249-51, 254, 255, 257, 258, 266, 270, 273, 276-7, 292, 300-21, 325, 329, 330, 332, 337, 338, 339, 341-8, 351, 358-9, 361-2, 363-4, 365, 367 object of the, ix-xv, 7, 8, 10, 17, 20, 21, 30, 31, 34, 35, 37, 46-9, 52, 71, 74, 84, 87-92, 93, 95, 102, 103, 139, 140, 149, 152-66, 168, 173, 175-9, 180, 181, 186, 190, 193-211, 213, 216-20, 223, 224, 226, 228-30, 233, 237, 238, 240, 245, 249-51, 254, 255, 257-9, 261, 264, 265, 270, 271, 273, 274, 298-314, 318-22, 326, 328, 329, 332-8, 342, 344-9, 351, 352-7, 359-61, 363, 365, 369-70 and perception, 4-5, 11, 12, 93-4, 161-2, 168, 176-7, 188, 189, 205, 207, 226-7, 228-9, 230, 238, 249-51, 273, 299-300, 301, 306, 359-60 and rhythm, 299, 300-1, 306-7, 329, 337, 346-7 and science, 8-12, 31, 92-3, 152, 153, 157-8, 159, 160-1, 162-3, 168, 173-6, 187, 193-8, 202, 204, 207-9, 214-6, 217, 225-6, 228-9, 241, 251, 270, 273, 297-8, 306, 321, 322, 329, 333-5, 345, 346-8, 354, 356, 357, 359-60, 362-3, 369-70 and space, 10-11, 154, 156-7, 160-3, 174-5, 176-7, 189, 202-4, 207-12, 215, 218, 222-3, 244, 245, 250, 251, 257-8, 361-2 and time, 4, 8-9, 17, 18, 20-2, 36, 39, 45-6, 47, 51, 163, 300, 301, 331-2, 335-7, 341 possibility of transcending the, xii, xiii, 48, 152, 177-8, 193-4, 198-200, 205-6, 207-8, 266, 360-1. See Philosophy, Intelligence Intellectualism, hesitation of Descartes between, and intuitionism, 345 Intelligence and action, 137-41, 150, 154-5, 161, 162-3, 181, 189, 198, 306 animal, 138, 187, 188, 212 categories of, x, 48, 195-6 of the child, 147-8 and consciousness, 187 culmination of, 130, 139-40, 174-5. See Superiority genesis of, 136, 177-8, 366 and the individual, 251 and instinct, 109, 135, 136, 141, 142, 168-70, 173-7, 179, 186, 197, 209, 238, 259, 267 in Kant's philosophy, 357-8 and laws, 229-30 limitations of, 152 and matter, 152, 159-60, 161-2, 175, 179, 181, 186, 189, 194-8, 230, 237, 250, 369, 370 mechanism of, 152, 153, 164, 165 and motion, 153, 159-60, 274, 303-7, 312, 313, 329 object of, 145-56, 161, 162, 175, 179, 250 practical nature of, ix-xv, 137-9, 141, 150-1, 247-8, 305, 306, 328-9 and reality, ix-xv, 161-2, 177, 237, 251, 258, 269, 271, 307 and science, 175, 176, 193, 194-5 and signs, 157, 158, 159, 160 and space, 205 See Intellect, Understanding, Reason Intelligent, the, contrasted with the merely intelligible, 175 Intelligible reality in ancient philosophy, 316-7 world, 160-1 Intelligibles of Plotinus, 353 Intension of knowledge, 149-50 Intensity of consciousness varies with ratio of possible to real action, 144-5 Intention as contrasted with mechanism, 233. See Automatic order, Willed order of life the object of instinct, 176, 233 Interaction, universal, 188-9 Interest as cause of variation, 131 in representation of "nought," 296, 297. See Affection, rôle of, etc. Internal finality, 41 Internality of instinct, 168, 174-5, 176-7 of subject in object the condition of knowledge of reality, 307, 317, 358-9 Interpenetration, 161, 162, 174-5, 177, 184 note, 188, 189, 201-3, 207-8, 257, 258, 270, 319-20, 341, 352 Interruption, materiality an, of positivity, 219, 246, 247-8, 319-20. See Inverse relation, etc. Interval of time, 8-9, 22, 23 between what is done and what might be done covered by consciousness, 179 Intuition, continuity between sensible and ultra-intellectual, 360-1 dialectic and, in philosophy, 238. See Intellect as inversion of intuition fringe of, around the nucleus of intellect, xiii, 12, 46, 49, 193 and instinct, 176-9, 182 and intellect in theoretical knowledge, 176-9, 270-1 Intuitional cosmology as reversed psychology, 207-8 metaphysics contrasted with intellectual or systematic, 191-2, 268-70, 277-8 method of philosophy, apparent vicious circle of, 191-4, 195-8 Intuitionism in Spinoza, 347-8 and intellectualism in Descartes, 345-6 Invention, consciousness as, and freedom, 264, 270-1 creativeness of, 164, 237, 340, 341 disproportion between, and its consequences, 181, 182-3 duration as, 10-1 evolution as, 102-3, 255, 344-5 fervor of, 164 indivisibility of, 164 inference a beginning of, 138 mechanical, 142-3, 194-5 of steam engine as epoch-marking, 138-9 time as, 341 unforeseeableness of, 164 upspringing of, 164 See New Inverse relation of the physical and psychical, 126-7, 143-4, 145, 173-4, 177-8, 201, 202, 206-7, 208, 210-1, 212, 217, 218, 222, 223, 236, 240, 245, 246, 247-8, 249, 256, 257, 261, 264, 265, 270, 319-20 Irreversibility of duration. See Repetition Isolated systems of matter, 204, 213, 215, 241, 242, 341, 342, 346, 347-8. See Bodies Janet, Paul, 60-1 note Jennings, 35 note Jourdain and the two kinds of order, 221 Juxtaposition, 207-8, 338, 339, 341. Cf. Succession Kaleidoscopic variation, 74 Kant, antinomies of, 204-5, 206 becoming in Kant's successors, 362 coincidence of matter with space in Kant's philosophy, 206, 207-8, 244 construction the method of Kant's successors, 364-5 his criticism of pure reason, 205, 287 note, 356-62, 364 degrees of being in Kant's successors, 362-3 duration in Kant's successors, 362-3 intelligence in Kant's philosophy, 230, 357 ontological argument in Kant's philosophy, 285 space and time in Kant's philosophy, 204-6 and Spencer, 364 See Mind and matter, Sensuous manifold, Thing-in-itself Kantianism, 358, 364 Katagenesis, 34 Kepler, 228-9, 332-5 Knowledge and action, 150, 193-4, 196, 197, 206-7, 208, 218 criticism of, 193-4 discontinuity of, 306 extension of, 149 form of, 148, 194-5, 358-362 formal, 152 genesis of, 190 innate or natural, 146-50 instinct in, 143, 144, 166-9, 173, 177, 192-3, 198, 268 intellect in, ix-xv, 48, 149, 162-4, 177, 179, 193-4, 196-9, 206-7, 208, 218, 237, 238, 251, 270, 305, 306, 312, 313, 315, 317, 325, 331-2, 342, 343, 347-8, 359-60, 361 intension of, 149-50 of reality viewed as the internality of subject in object, 307, 317, 358-9 intuition and intellect in theoretical knowledge, 174-7, 179, 238, 70, 342-4 matter of, 194-5, 357-8, 359-62 of matter, xi, 48, 206-7, 360-1 object of, ix-xv, 1, 48, 147, 148, 159-60, 163, 164, 197-9, 270, 342, 359-60 fundamental problem of, 273-5 as relative to certain requirements of the mind, 152, 190-1, 230 scientific, 193-4, 196-8, 206, 207, 218 theory of, xiii, 177, 179, 197, 204-5, 207-8, 229, 231 unconscious, 142-6, 146, 150, 165, 166 alleged unknowableness of the thing-in-itself, 205, 206 Kunstler, 260 note Labbé 260 note Labor, division of, 99, 110, 118, 140, 157, 166, 260 Lalande, André, 246 note Lamarck, 75-6 Lamarckism, 75-6, 77, 84-87 Language, 4, 147, 157-60, 258, 265, 293, 302-3, 305, 312-4, 320 La Place, 38 Lapsed intelligence, instinct as, 169, 175 Larvae, 19, 140, 145-66, 172-3 Latent geometrism of intellect, 194, 211-2 Law of correlation, 66, 67 and genera, 226-9, 330 heliocentric radius-vector in Kepler's laws, 334 imprint of relations and laws upon consciousness in Spencer's philosophy, 188 and intuitional philosophy, 176-7 physical, contrasted with the laws of our codes, 218-9 physical, expression of the negative movement, 218 physical, mathematical form of, 218, 219, 229-30, 241 relation as, 228, 229-30 Learning, instinctive, 192, 193 Le Dantec, 18 note Leibniz, cause in, 277 dogmatism of, 356, 357 extension in, 351, 352 God in, 351, 352, 356 mechanism in, 348, 351, 355, 356 his philosophy a systematization of physics, 347 space in, 351-2 teleology in, 39, 40 time in, 352, 362 Lepidoptera, 114 note, 134 Le Roy, Ed., 218 note Liberation of consciousness, 183-4, 265, 266 Liberty. See Freedom Life as activity, 128-9, 246 cause in the realm of, 94, 164 complementarity of the powers of, ix-xv, 25-6, 27, 51-5, 97-105, 110, 113, 116-9, 126-7, 131-6, 140-3, 176, 177, 183, 184, 246, 254-7, 266, 270, 343, 344-5 consciousness coextensive with, 186, 257, 270, 362-3 mutual contingency of the orders of life and matter, 235 continuity of, 1-11, 29, 30, 162, 163, 258 as creation, 57-8, 161-2, 223, 230, 246, 247-8, 252, 254, 255 symbolized by a curve, 31, 89, 90 embryonic, 166 and finality, 44, 89, 164, 185, 222-3 fluidity of, 153, 165, 191-2, 193 as free, 129-30 function of, 93-4, 106-10, 113, 114, 117, 120, 121, 126-7, 173-5, 246, 254-6 harmony of the realm of, 50, 51, 103, 116, 117-8, 127 imitation of the inert by, 230 imitation of, by the inert, 33-6 impulse of, prolonged in our will, 239 and individuation, 12-4, 26, 27, 79-80, 85, 87, 88, 127-8, 149, 195-6, 230, 231, 250, 259, 261, 269, 300-1, 302-3. See Individuality indivisibility of, 225-6, 270 and instinct. 136-40, 145, 165-8, 170, 172, 173, 175-9, 186, 192-7, 233, 264, 366 and intellect, ix-xv, 13, 32-5, 44-9, 89, 101, 102-3, 104-5, 127, 136, 152, 160-5, 168, 173-4, 176-9, 181, 191-201, 206, 207, 213, 220, 222-3, 224, 225-6, 257-61, 266, 270, 300-1, 342, 355, 359-61, 365, 366 and interpenetration, 271 as inversion of the inert, 6-7, 8, 176, 177, 186, 190, 191, 196, 197, 201, 202, 207, 208-9, 210-1, 212, 216, 217, 218, 222-3, 225-6, 232, 235, 236, 238, 239, 245-50, 264, 329-31 a limited force, 126, 127, 141, 148, 149, 254 and memory, 167 penetrating matter, 26, 27, 52, 179, 181, 182, 237, 239, 266, 269-70 as tendency to mobility, 128, 131, 132 and physics and chemistry, 31, 33, 35, 36, 225-6 in other planets, 256 as potentiality, 258 repetition in, and in the inert, 224, 225, 230, 231 sinuousness of, 71, 98, 99, 102, 112, 113, 116, 129-30, 212 social, 138, 140, 157-8, 265 in other solar systems, 256 and evolution of species, 247-8, 254, 269 theory of, and theory of knowledge, xii, 177, 179, 197 unforeseeableness of, 6, 8-9, 20, 26-7, 28, 29, 37, 45-6, 47, 48, 52, 86, 96, 163, 164, 184, 223-4, 249, 339, 341 unity of, 250, 268, 270 as a wave flowing over matter, 251, 266 See Impulse of, Organic substance, Organism, Organization, Vital impetus, Vital order, Vital principle, Vitalism, Willed order Limitations of instinct and of intelligence, 152 Limitedness of the scope of Galileo's physics, 357, 370 of the vital impetus, 126, 127, 141, 148, 149, 255 Linden, Maria von, 114 note Lingulae illustrating failure to evolve, 102 Lizards, color variation in, 72, 74 Locomotion and consciousness, 108, 111, 115, 261. See Mobility, Movement Logic and action, ix, 44, 46, 162, 179 formal, 292 genesis of, x-xi, xiii-xiv, 49, 103, 104-5, 136, 191-2, 193, 301, 359, 366 and geometry, ix, 161, 176, 212 impotent to grasp life, x, 13, 32, 35, 36, 46-9, 89, 101, 152, 162-5, 194-201, 205, 206, 213, 219, 220, 222, 223, 225-6, 256-61, 266, 270, 313, 355, 360-1, 365 natural, 161, 194-5 of number, 208 and physics, 319-20, 321 and time, 4, 277 See Intellect, Intelligence, Understanding, Order, mathematical Logical existence contrasted with psychical and physical, 277, 298, 328, 361-2 categories, x, 48, 195, 196 and physical contrasted, 276-7 Logik, by Sigwart, 287 note λογος, in Plotinus, 210 note Looking backward, the attitude of intellect, 46, 237 Lumbriculus, 13 Machinery and intelligence, 141 Machines, natural and artificial, 139. See Implement, Instrument organisms, for action, 252, 254, 300-1 Magnitude, certainty of induction approached as factors approach pure magnitudes, 215-16 and modern science, 333, 335 Man in evolution, attention, 184 brain, 183, 184, 263-5 consciousness, 139-43, 180, 181, 183, 185, 187, 188, 191-2, 212, 262-8 goal, 134, 174-5, 185, 266, 267, 269, 270 habit and invention, 265 intelligence, 133, 137-9, 143, 146, 174, 175, 187, 188, 212, 266, 267 language, 158 Manacéine (de), 124 note Manufacture, the aim of intellect, 137, 138, 145, 152-4, 159-65, 181, 191, 192, 199, 251, 298 and organization, 92, 93, 126-7, 139-43, 150 and repetition, 44, 45, 155-8 See Construction, Solid, Utility Many and one, categories inapplicable to life, x, 162-3, 177-8, 257, 261, 268 in the idea of individuality, 258 See Multiplicity Martin, J., 102 note Marion, 107 note Material knowledge, 152 Materialists, 240 Materiality the inversion of spirituality, 212 Mathematical order. See Inert matter, Order Matter. See Inert matter Maturation as creative evolution, 47-8, 230 Maupas, 35 note Measurement a human convention, 218, 242 of real time an illusion, 336-40 Mechanical account of action after the fact, 47 cause, x, 34, 35, 40, 44, 177, 234, 235 procedure of intellect, 165 invention, 138, 140, 194-5 necessity, 47, 215, 216, 218, 236, 252, 265, 270, 327 Mechanics of transformation, 32 Mechanism, cerebral, 252, 253, 262, 263, 265, 366. See Cerebral activity and consciousness of the eye, 88 instinct as, 176-7 of intellect. See Intellect, mechanism of and intention, 233. See Automatic order, Willed order life more than, x, xiv note, 78-9 Mechanistic philosophy, xii, xiv, 17, 29, 30, 37, 74, 88-96, 101, 102, 194-5, 218, 223, 264, 345, 346, 347, 348, 351, 355, 356, 362 Medical philosophers of the eighteenth century, 356 science, 165 Medullary bulb in the development of the nervous system, 252 and consciousness, 110 Memory, 5, 17, 20, 21, 167, 168, 180, 181, 201 Menopause in illustration of crisis of evolution, 19 Mental life, unity of, 268 Metamorphoses of larvae, 139-40, 146-7, 166 Metaphysics and duration, 276 and epistemology, 177, 179, 185, 197, 208-9 Galileo's influence on, 20, 238 instinctive, 191-2, 269, 270, 277-8 and intellect, 189-90 and matter, 194 natural, 21, 325 and science, 176-7, 194-5, 198, 208-9, 344, 354, 369-70 systematic, 191, 192, 194, 195-6, 238, 269, 270, 347 Metchnikoff, 18 note Method of philosophy, 191-2 Microbes, illustrating divergence of tendency, 117 Microbial colonies, 259 Mind, individual, in philosophy, 191 and intellect, 48-9, 205-6 knowledge as relative to certain requirements of the mind, 152, 190-1, 230 and matter, 188-9, 201, 202, 203, 205-6, 264, 269, 270, 350, 365-9 See Psychic, Psycho-physiological parallelism, Psychology and Philosophy, ψυχη Minot, Sedgwick, 17 note Mobility, tendency toward, characterizes animals, 109, 110, 113, 129-32, 135, 180 and consciousness, 108, 111, 115-6, 261 and intellect, 154-5, 161-2, 163, 300, 326, 327, 337 of intelligent signs, 158, 159 life as tendency toward, 127-8, 131, 132 in plants, 112, 135 See Motion Möbius, 60 note Model necessary to the constructive work of intellect, 164, 166-7 Modern astronomy compared with ancient science, 334, 335 geometry compared with ancient science, 31, 161, 334 idealism, 231 philosophy compared with ancient, 225-9, 231, 327-8, 344, 345, 349-51, 354, 356-7 philosophy: parallelism of body and mind in, 180, 350, 355, 356 science: cinematographical character of, 329, 330, 336, 341, 342, 346-7 science compared with ancient, 329-36, 342-5, 356-7 science, Galileo's influence on, 334, 335 science, Kepler's influence on, 334 science, magnitudes the object of, 333, 335 science, time an independent variable in, 20, 335 Molecules, 251 Molluscs, illustrating animal tendency to mobility, 129-31 perception in, 189 vision in, 60, 75, 77, 83, 86, 87 Monads of Leibniz, 351-4 Monera, 126 Monism, 355 Moral sciences, weakness of deduction in, 212 Morat, 123 note Morgan, L., 79 note, 80 Motion, abstract, 304 articulations of, 310-1 an animal characteristic, 252 and the cinematograph, 304-5 continuity of, 310 in Descartes, 346-7 evolutionary, extensive and qualitative, 302, 303, 311, 312 in general (i.e. abstract), 304-5 indivisibility of, 306-7, 311, 336-7, 338 and instinct, 139-40, 331-2 and intellect, 71, 155, 156, 159-60, 273, 274, 298, 317-8, 321, 329, 331-2, 338, 344-5 organization of, 310-1 track laid by motion along its course, 308-11, 337, 338 See Mobility, Movement Motive principle of evolution: consciousness, 181-2 Motor mechanisms, cerebral, 252, 253, 263, 265 Moulin-Quignon, quarry of, 137 Moussu, 81 Movement and animal life, 108, 131, 132 ascending, 12, 101, 103, 104, 185, 208-9, 210-1, 369-70. See Vital impetus consciousness and, 111, 118, 144-5, 207-8 descending, 11-2, 202-4, 207-10, 212, 246, 252, 256, 270, 276, 339, 361, 369-70 goal of, the object of the intellect, 155, 299-300, 302, 303 intellect unable to grasp, 313 mutual inversion of cosmic movements, 126-7, 143, 144, 173-4, 176, 177, 209-10, 212, 217, 218, 222-3, 236, 245-51, 261, 264, 265, 272, 342-3 life as, 166, 176-7 and the nervous system, 110, 132, 134, 180, 262-3 of plants, 109, 135-6 See Mobility, Motion, Locomotion, Current, Tendency, Impetus, Impulse, Impulsion Movements, antagonistic cosmic, 128-9, 135, 181, 185, 250, 259. See Movement, Mutual inversion of cosmic Multiplicity, abstract, 257, 259 distinct, 202, 209-10, 257. See Interpenetration does not apply to life, x, 162, 177, 257, 261, 270 Mutability, exhaustion of, of the universe, 244, 245 Mutations, sudden, 28, 62-3, 64-8 theory of, 85-6 Natural geometry, 195-6, 211-2 instrument, 141, 144-5, 150-1 or innate knowledge, 147, 150-1 logic, 161, 194-5 metaphysic, 21, 325-6 selection, 54, 56-7, 59-60, 61-5, 68, 95, 169-70 Nature, Aristotelian theory of, 135, 174 discord in, 127-8, 255, 267 facts and relations in, 368 incoherence in, 104 as inert matter, 161-2, 218, 219, 228-9, 239, 245, 264, 280-1, 303, 356, 359-60, 367 as life, 100, 138, 139-40, 141-2, 143, 144-5, 150, 154, 155-6, 227, 241, 260, 269, 270, 301-2 order of, 225-6 as ordered diversity, 231, 233 unity of, 105, 190, 191, 195, 196-9, 322, 352-7, 358 Nebula, cosmic, 249, 257 Necessity for creation, vital impetus as, 252, 261 and death of individuals, 246 note and freedom, 218, 236, 270 in Greek philosophy, 326-7 in induction, 215, 216 and matter, 252, 264 Negation, 275, 285-97. See Nought Negative cause of mathematical order, 217. See Inverse relation, etc. cosmic principle, 126-7, 143, 144, 173-4, 176-7, 209, 212, 218, 223-4, 236, 245-51, 261, 264-5, 272, 243. See Inert matter, Opposition of the two ultimate cosmic movements, etc. Neo-Darwinism, 55, 56, 85, 86, 169-70 Neo-Lamarckism, 42 note Nervous system a centre of action, 109, 130-1, 132, 134-5, 180, 253, 261-3 of the plant, 114 primacy of, 120-1, 126-7, 252 Neurone and indetermination, 126 New, freedom and the, 11-2, 164, 165, 199-200, 218, 230, 239, 249, 270, 339-42 Newcomen, 184 Newton, 335 Nitrogen and the function of organisms, 108, 113-4, 117, 255 νοησεως νοησις of Aristotle, 356 Non-existence. See Nought Nothing. See Nought Nought, conception of the, 273-80, 281-3, 289-90, 292-8, 316-7, 327. See Negation, Pseudo-ideas, etc. νους ποιητικος of Aristotle, 322 Novelty. See new. Nucleus intelligence as the luminous, enveloped by instinct, 166-7 in microbial colonies, 259 intelligence as the solid, bathed by a mist of instinct, 193, 194 of Stentor, 260 Number illustrating degrees of reality, 324-5, 327 logic of, 208 Nuptial flight, 146 Nutritive elements, fixation of, 107-9, 114, 117, 246, 247, 254 Nymph (Zool.), 139, 146 Object of this book, ix-xv of instinct, 146-52, 163, 175-9 of intellect, 146-52, 161-5, 175, 179, 190-1, 199-200, 237, 250, 252, 270, 273, 298-304, 307-8, 311-2, 354, 359 internality of subject in, the condition of knowledge of reality, 307-8, 317-8, 359 of knowledge, 147, 148-9, 159-60 idea of, contrasted with that of universal interaction, 11, 188-9, 207-8 of philosophy as contrasted with object of science, 195-6, 220-1, 225-6, 227, 239, 251, 270, 273, 297-9, 305-6, 347 of science, 329, 332-3, 335-6 Obliteration of outlines in the real, 11, 188, 189, 207-8 Oenothera Lamarckiana, 63, 85-6 Old, growing. See Age the, is the object of the intellect, 163, 164, 199, 270 One and many in the idea of individuality, x, 258. See Unity Ontological argument in Kant, 284 Opposition of the two ultimate cosmic movements, 128-9, 175-6, 179, 186, 201, 203, 238, 248, 254, 259, 261, 267. See Inverse relation of the physical and psychical Orchids, instincts of, 170 Order and action, 226-7 complementarity of the two orders, 145-6, 173-4, 221-2. See Order, Mutual inversion of the two orders mutual contingency of the two orders, 231, 235 and disorder, 40, 103-4, 220-2, 225-6, 231-6, 274 mutual inversion of the two orders, 186, 201, 202, 206-9, 211, 212, 216-8, 219-21, 222-3, 225-6, 230, 232, 235, 236, 238, 240, 245-8, 256, 257, 258, 264, 270, 274, 313, 330 mathematical, 153, 209-11, 217-9, 223-6, 230-3, 236, 245, 251, 270, 330-1 of nature, 225-6, 231, 233 as satisfaction, 222, 223, 274 vital, 94-5, 164, 222-7, 230, 235, 236, 237, 330-1 willed, 224, 239 Organ and function, 88-91, 93-4, 95, 132, 140, 141, 157, 161-2 Organic destruction and physico-chemistry, 226 substance, 131, 140, 141-2, 149, 162-3, 195-6, 240 note, 255, 267 world, cleft between, and the inorganic, 190, 191, 196, 197-8 world, harmony of, 50-1, 103, 104, 116, 118, 126-7 world, instinct the procedure of, 165 Organism and action, 123-4, 125, 174, 253, 254, 300-1 ambiguity of primitive, 99, 112, 113, 116, 129, 130 association of organisms, 260 change and the, 301, 302-3 complementarity of intelligence and instinct in the, 141-2, 150, 181, 184, 185 complexity of the, 162, 250, 252, 253, 260 consciousness and the, 111, 145, 179, 180, 262, 270 contingency of the actual chemical nature of the, 255, 257 differentiation of parts in, 252, 260. See Organism, complexity of extension of, by artificial instruments, 141, 161 freedom the property of every, 130, 131 function of, 26, 27, 79, 80, 85, 87, 88, 93-4, 106-110, 113, 114, 117, 120, 121, 126-7, 128, 136, 173-5, 230, 231, 246, 247, 250, 251, 254, 255, 256, 258, 270 function and structure, 55, 61, 62, 69, 74, 75, 76-7, 86, 88-91, 93-4, 95, 96-7, 118-9, 132, 139, 140, 157-8, 161-3, 250, 252, 256 generality typified by similarity among organisms, 223, 224, 228-9, 230 hive as, 166 and individuation, x, 12, 13, 15, 23, 26-7, 42, 149, 195-6, 225-6, 228-9, 259, 260, 261, 270 mutual interpenetration of organisms, 177-8 mechanism of the, 31, 92-3, 94 philosophy and the, 195-6 unity of the, 176-8 Organization of action, 142, 145, 147-8, 150, 181, 184, 185 of duration, 5-6, 15, 25, 26 explosive character of, 92 and instinct, 24, 138-46, 150, 165-7, 171-2, 173, 176, 192-3, 194, 264 and intellect, 161-2 and manufacture, 92, 93, 94-5, 96, 126-8 is the modus vivendi between the antagonistic cosmic currents, 181, 250, 254 of motion, 310 and perception, 226-7 Originality of the willed order, 224 Orthogenesis, 69, 86-7 Oscillation between association and individuation, 259, 261. See Societies of ether, 301-2 of instinct and intelligence about a mean position, 136 of pendulum, illustrating space and time in ancient philosophy, 318-9, 320 between representation of inner and outer reality, 279-80 of sensible reality in ancient philosophy about being, 316-8 Outlines of perception the plan of action, 5, 11, 12, 93, 188, 189, 204-5, 206-7, 226-7, 228-9, 230, 250, 299-300, 306 Oxygen, 114, 254, 255 Paleontology, 24-5, 129, 139 Paleozoic era, 102 Parallelism, psycho-physiological, 180, 350, 351, 355, 356 Paralyzing instinct in hymenoptera, 139-40, 146, 172, 174-5 Parasites, 106, 108, 109, 111-13, 134-5 Parasitism, 132 Passivity, 222-4 Past, subsistence of, in present, 4, 20-3, 26-7, 108, 199-202 Peckham, 173-4 note Pecten, illustrating identical structures in divergent lines of evolution, 62, 63, 75 Pedagogical and social nature of negation, 287-97 Pedagogy and the function of the intellect, 165 Penetration, reciprocal, 161-2. See Interpenetration Perception and action, 4-5, 11, 12, 93, 188, 189, 206, 226-7, 228-9, 300-1, 306-7 and becoming, 176-7, 303-6 cinematographical character of, 206-7, 249, 251, 331-2 distinctness of, 226-7, 250 and geometry, 205, 230 in molluscs, 188 and organization, 226-7 prolonged in intellect, 161-2, 273 reaction in, 264 and recollection, 180, 181 refracts reality, 204, 238, 359-60 rhythm of, 299-300, 301 and science, 168 Permanence an illusion, 299-301 Peron, 80 Perrier, Ed., 260 note Personality, absolute reality of, 269 concentration of, 201, 202 and matter, 269, 270 the object of intuition, 268 tension of, 199, 200, 201 Perthes, Boucher de, 137 Phaedrus, 156 note Phagocytes and external finality, 42 Phagocytosis and growing old, 18 Phantom ideas and problems, 177, 277, 283, 296 Philosophical explanation contrasted with scientific explanation, 168 Philosophy and art, 176-7 and biology, 43-4, 194-6 and experience, 197-8 function of 29-30, 84-5, 93-4, 168, 173-4, 194-7, 198, 268, 269, 369-70 history of, 238 incompletely conscious of itself, 207-8, 209 individual mind in, 191 and intellect, ix-xv intellect and intuition in, 238 of intuition, 176-7, 191-4, 196, 197, 277 method of, 191-2, 194, 195, 239 object of, 239 and the organism, 195-6 and physics, 194, 208 and psychology, 194, 196 and science, 175, 196-7, 208, 345, 370 See Ancient philosophy, Cosmology, Finalism, Mechanistic philosophy, Metaphysics, Modern philosophy, Post-Kantian philosophy Phonograph illustrating "unwinding" cause, 73 Phosphorescence, consciousness compared to, 262 Photograph, illustrating the nature of the intellectual view of reality, 31, 304-5 Photography, instantaneous, illustrating the mechanism of the intellect, 331-2, 333 Physical existence, as contrasted with logical, 276, 297-8, 328, 361 laws, their precise form artificial, 218, 219, 229, 240-1 laws and the negative cosmic movement, 218 operations the object of intelligence, 175, 250 order, imitation of, by the vital, 230 science, 176-7 Physicochemistry and organic destruction, 226 and biology, 25-6, 29-30, 34, 35, 36, 55, 57, 98, 194 Physics, ancient, "logic spoiled," 320, 321-2 of ancient philosophy, 315, 320, 321-2, 355 of Aristotle, 228 note, 324 note, 331, 332 and deduction, 213 of Galileo, 357, 369-70 and individuality of bodies, 188, 208 as inverted psychics, 202 and logic, 319-20, 321 and metaphysics, 194, 208 and mutability, 245 success of, 218, 219 Pigment-spot and adaptation, 60, 61, 71-3, 76-7 and heredity, 83, 84 Pinguicula, certain animal characteristics of, 107 Plan, motionless, of action the object of intellect, 155, 298-9, 301-2, 303 Planets, life in other, 256 Plants and animals in evolution, 105-39, 142-3, 144, 145-6, 147, 168, 169-70, 181, 182, 183-4, 185, 254, 267 complementarity of, to animals, 183-4, 185, 267 consciousness of, 109, 111, 113, 120, 128-35, 142-3, 144, 181, 182, 292. See Torpor, Sleep function of, 107-9, 113, 114, 117, 246, 247, 254, 256 function and structure in, 67, 77-8, 79 individuation in, 12 instinct in, 170, 171 and mobility, 108, 109, 111-13, 118-9, 129, 130, 135-6 parallelism of evolution with animals, 59-60, 106-8, 116 supporters of all life, 271 variation of, 85, 86 Plasma, continuity of germinative, 25-6, 42, 78-83 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 perception; the sense indivisible to intuition, 209 illustrating creation of matter, 240, 319-20 ποιητικος νους, 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 inversion 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 Preëstablished 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 philosophy, 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 system, 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 ψχνη of Aristotle, 350 of Plotinus, 210 note Psychic activity, twofold 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 reversed, 208-9 Psycho-physiological parallelism, 180, 350, 351, 355, 356 Puberty, illustrating crises in evolution, 19, 320-1 Qualitative, evolutionary and extensive becoming, 313 motion, 302-3, 304, 311 Qualities, acts, forms, the classes of representation, 303, 314 bodies as bundles of, 300-1 coincidence of, 309 and movements, 299-300 and natural geometry, 211 superimposition of, in induction, 216 Quality is change, 299-300 in Eleatic philosophy, 314-5 and quantity in ancient philosophy, 323-4 and quantity in modern philosophy, 350 and rhythm, 300-2 Quaternary substances, 121 Quinton, René, 134 note Radius-vector, Heliocentric, in Kepler's laws, 334 Rank, evolutionary, 50, 133-5, 173-4, 265 Reaction, rôle of, in perception, 226-7 Ready-made categories, x, xiv, 48, 237, 250, 251, 273, 311, 321, 329, 354, 359 Real activity as distinguished from possible, 145 common-sense is continuous experience of the, 213 continuity of the, 302, 329 dichotomy of the, in modern philosophy, 349 imitation of the, by intelligence, 90, 204, 258, 270, 307, 355 obliteration of outlines in the, 11-2, 188, 189, 207-8 representation of the, by science, 203-4 Realism, ancient, 231-2 Realists and idealists alike assume possibility of absence of order, 220, 231-2 Reality, absolute, 198, 228-9, 230, 269, 359-60, 361 as action, 47, 191-2, 194-5, 249 degrees of, 323, 327 in dogmatic metaphysics, 196 double form of, 179-80, 216, 230-1, 236 as duration, 11-2, 217, 272 as flux, 165, 250, 251, 294, 337, 338, 342 and the frames of the intellect, 363-4, 365. See Frames of the understanding as freedom, 247 of genera in ancient philosophy, 226-7 is growth, 239 imitation of, by the intellect, 89-90, 365 and the intellect, 52, 89-90, 153, 191, 192, 314-5, 355-6 intelligible, in ancient philosophy, 317 knowledge of, 307-8, 317, 358-9 and mechanism, 351, 354-5 as movement, 90, 155, 301-2, 312 and not-being, 276, 280, 285 of the person, 269 refraction of, through the forms of perception, 204, 238, 359-60 and science, 194, 196, 198, 199, 203-4, 206-8, 354, 357 sensible, in ancient philosophy, 314, 317, 321, 327, 328, 352 symbol of, xi, 30-1, 71, 88-9, 93-4, 195-6, 197, 209, 240, 342, 360-1, 369 undefinable conceptually, 13, 49 unknowable in Kant, 205 unknowable in Spencer, xi views of, 30-1, 71, 84, 88, 199, 201, 206-7, 225-6, 249, 258, 273, 300-7, 311, 314, 331-2, 342, 351, 352 Reason and life, 7, 8, 48, 161 cannot transcend itself, 193-4 Reasoning and acting, 192-3 and experience, 203-4 and matter, 204-5, 208-9 on matter and life, 7, 8 Recollection, dependence of, on special circumstances, 167, 180 in the dream, 202, 207-8 and perception, 180, 181 Recommencing, continual, of the present in the state of relaxation, 201 Recomposing, decomposing and, the characteristic powers of intellect, 157, 251 Record, false comparison of memory with, 5 Reflection, 158-9 Reflex activity, 110 compound, 173-4, 175-6 Refraction of the idea through matter or non-being, 316-7 of reality through forms of perception, 204, 238, 359-60 Regeneration and individuality, 13, 14 Register of time, 16, 20, 37 Reinke, 42 note Relation, imprint of relations and laws upon consciousness, 188 as law, 229, 230-1 and thing, 147-52, 156-7, 160, 161, 187, 202, 352, 357 Relativism, epistemological, 196, 197, 230 Relativity of immobility, 155 of the intellect, xi, 48-9, 152, 153, 187, 195-6, 197-8, 199, 219, 273, 306-7, 360-1 of knowledge, 152, 191, 230 of perception, 226-7, 228, 300-1 Relaxation in the dream state, 201, 209-10 and extension, 201, 207-8, 209, 210, 212, 218, 223, 245 and intellect, 200, 207-8, 209, 212, 218 logic a, of virtual geometry, 212 matter a, of unextended into extended, 218 memory vanishes in complete, 200 necessity as, of freedom, 218 present continually recommences in the state of relaxation, 200 will vanishes in complete, 200, 207-8 See Tension Releasing cause, 73, 74, 115, 118-9, 120 Repetition and generalization, 230-1, 232 and fabrication, 44-5, 46, 155-8 and intellect, 156-7, 199, 214-6 of states, 5-6, 7-8, 28-9, 30, 36, 45-6, 47 in the vital and in the mathematical order, 225, 226, 230, 231 Representation and action, 143-4, 145, 180 classes of: qualities, forms, acts, 302-3, 314 and consciousness, 143-4 of motion, 159-60, 303-4, 305, 306-7, 308, 313, 315, 344-5 of the Nought, 273-80, 281-4, 289-317, 327 Represented or internalized action distinguished from externalized action, 144-7, 158-9, 165 Reproduction and individuation, 13, 14 Resemblance. See Similarity Reservoir, organism a, of energy, 115, 116, 125-6, 245, 246, 254 Rest and motion in Zeno, 308-12 Retrogression in evolution, 133, 134 Retrospection the function of intellect, 47-8, 237 Reversed psychology: intuitional cosmology, 208 Rhizocephala and animal mobility, 111 Rhumbler, 34 note Rhythm of duration, 11-2, 127-8, 300-1, 345-7 intelligence adopts the, of action, 305-6 of perception, 299-300, 301 and quality, 301 scanning the, of the universe the function of science, 346-7 of science must coincide with that of action, 320 of the universe untranslatable into scientific formulae, 337 Rings of arthropods, 132-3 Ripening, creative evolution as, 47-8, 340-1 Romanes, 139 Roule, 27 note Roy (Le), Ed., 218 note Salamandra maculata, vision in, 75 Salensky, 75 note Same, function of intellect connecting same with same, 199-200, 233, 270 Samter and Heymons, 72 note Saporta (De), 112 note Savage's sense of distance and direction, 212 Skepticism or dogmatism the dilemma of any systematic metaphysics, 195-6, 197, 230-1 Schisms in the primitive impulsion of life, 254-5, 257. See Divergent lines of evolution Scholasticism, 370 Science and action, 93, 195, 198, 328-9 ancient, and modern, 329-37, 342-5, 357 astronomy, ancient and modern, 334-5, 336 cartesian geometry and ancient geometry, 333-4 cinematographical character of modern, 329, 330, 336-7, 340-1, 342, 345-8 conventionality of a certain aspect of, 206-7 and deduction, 212-3 and discontinuity, 161-2 function of, 92, 167-8, 173-4, 176-7, 193-4, 195-6, 198-9, 328-9, 346-7 Galileo's influence on modern, 333-4, 335 and instinct, 169, 170, 173-4, 175, 193-5 and intelligence, 176, 177, 193-6 Kepler's influence on modern, 334 and matter, 194-5, 206-7, 208 modern. See Modern science object of, 195-6, 220, 221, 251, 270-1, 273, 296-8, 306-7, 328-9, 332-3, 335-6, 347-8 and perception, 168 and philosophy, 175-6, 196-7, 208-9, 344, 370 physical. See Physics and reality. See Reality and science and time, 8-13, 20, 335-8 unity of, 195-6, 197, 228-9, 230, 321-2, 323, 344-5, 347-8, 349, 354, 355-6, 359-60, 362-3 Scientific concepts, 338-40 explanation and philosophical explanation, 168 formulae, 337 geometry, 161, 211 knowledge, 193-4, 196-7, 198, 199, 207, 208, 218 Sclerosis and ageing, 19 Scolia, paralyzing instinct in, 172 Scope of action indefinitely extended by intelligent instruments, 141 of Galileo's physics, 357, 370 Scott, 63 note Sea-urchin and individuality, 13 Séailles, 29 note Secondary instincts, 139, 168 Sectioning of becoming in the philosophy of ideas, 317-8 of matter by perception, 206-7, 249, 251 Sedgwick, 260 note Seeing and willing, coincidence of, in intuition, 237 Selection, natural, 54, 56-7, 59-60, 61-2, 63, 64, 68, 95-6, 169, 170 Self, coincidence of, with, 199 existence of, means change, 1 ff. knowledge of, 1 ff. Senescence, 15-23, 26-7, 42-3 Sensation and space, 202 Sense-perception. See Perception Sensible flux, 316-7, 318, 321, 322, 327, 343, 345 intuition and ultra-intellectual, 360-1 object, apogee of, 342-3, 344-5, 349 reality, 314, 317, 319, 327, 328, 352 Sensibility, forms of, 361 Sensitive plant, in illustration of mobility in plants, 109 Sensori-motor system. See Nervous system Sensuous manifold, 205, 221, 232, 235, 236 Sentiment, poetic, in illustration of individuation, 258, 259 Serkovski, 259 note Serpula, in illustration of identical evolution in divergent lines, 96 Sexual cells, 14, 26, 27, 79-81 Sexuality parallel in plants and animals, 58-60, 119-21 Shaler, N.S., 133 note, 184 note Sheath, calcareous, in illustration of animal tendency to mobility, 130-1 Signs, function of, 158, 159, 160 the instrument of science, 329-30 Sigwart, 287 note Silurian epoch, failure of certain species to evolve since, 102 Similarity among individuals of same species the type of generality, 224-6, 228-9, 230-1 and mechanical causality, 44, 45 Simultaneity, to measure time is merely to count simultaneities, 9, 336, 337, 341 Sinuousness of evolution, 71, 98, 102, 212-3 Sitaris, unconscious knowledge of, 146, 147 Situation and magnitude, problems of, 211 Sketching movements, function of consciousness, 207-8 Sleep, 129-31, 135, 181 Snapshot, in illustration of intellectual representation of motion, 305, 306, 313, 315, 344 See View of reality, Cinematographical character, etc. form defined as a, of transition, 301-2, 317, 318, 321-2, 345 Social instinct, 101, 140, 158, 171-2 life, 138, 140, 158, 265 and pedagogical character of negation, 287-97 Societies, 101, 131-2, 158, 171-2, 259 Society and the individual, 260, 265 Solar energy stored by plants, released by animals, 246, 254 systems, 241-4, 246 note, 256, 270 systems, life in other, 256 Solid, concepts analogous to solids, ix intellect as a solid nucleus, 193, 194 the material of construction and the object of the intellect, 153, 154, 161, 162, 251 Solidarity between brain and consciousness, 180, 262 of the parts of matter, 203, 207-8, 241, 271 Solidification operated by the understanding, 249 σωμα in Aristotle, 350 Somnambulism and consciousness, 144, 145, 159 Soul and body, 350 and cell, 269 creation of, 270 Space and action, 203 in ancient philosophy, 318, 319 and concepts, 160-1, 163, 174-5, 176-7, 188-9, 257-9 geometrical, 203 homogeneity of, 156, 212 and induction, 216 in Kant's philosophy, 205, 206, 207, 244 in Leibniz's philosophy, 351 and matter, 189, 202-13, 244, 257, 264, 361-2, 368 and time in Kant's philosophy, 205-6 unity and multiplicity determinations of, 357-9 See Extension Spatiality atmosphere of, bathing intelligence, 205 degradation of the extra-spatial, 207 and distinctness, 203, 207, 244, 250, 257-9 and geometrical space, 203, 211, 213, 218 and mathematical order, 208, 209 Special instincts and environment, 138, 168, 192-3, 194 and recollections, 167, 168, 180 as variations on a theme, 167, 172, 264 Species, articulate, 133 evolution of, 247, 255, 269 and external finality, 128-9, 130-1, 132, 266 fossil, 102 human, as goal of evolution, 266, 267 human, styled homo faber, 139 and instinct, 140, 167, 170-2, 264 and life, 167 similarity within, 223-6, 228-9, 230-1 Speculation, dead-locks in, xii, 155, 156, 312, 313-4 object of philosophy, 44, 152, 196, 198, 220, 225-6, 227, 251, 270-1, 273, 297-8, 306-7, 317, 347-8 Spencer, Herbert, xi, xiv, 78-9, 153, 188, 189, 190, 364, 365 Spencer's evolutionism, correspondence between mind and matter in, 368 cosmogony in, 188 imprint of relations and laws upon consciousness in, 188 matter in, 365, 367 mind in, 365, 367 Spheres, concentric, in Aristotle's philosophy, 328 Sphex, paralyzing instinct in, 172-5 Spiders and paralyzing hymenoptera, 172 Spinal cord, 110 Spinoza, the adequate and the inadequate, 353 cause, 277 dogmatism, 356, 357 eternity, 353 extension, 350 God, 351, 357 intuitionism, 347 mechanism, 348, 352, 355, 356 time, 362 Spirit, 251, 269, 270 Spirituality and materiality, 128-9, 201-3, 316-7, 208-9, 210-1, 212-3, 217, 218, 219, 222-3, 237, 238, 245, 247-8, 249, 251, 254, 256, 257, 259, 261, 267, 270-1, 272, 276, 343 Spontaneity of life, 86, 237. See Freedom and mechanism, 40 in vegetables, 109 and the willed order, 224 Sport (biol.), 63 Starch, in the function of vegetable kingdom, 114 States of becoming, 1, 13, 163, 247-8, 299, 300, 307 Static character of the intellect, 155-6, 163, 274, 298 views of becoming, 273 Stehasny, 124 note Steam-engine and bronze, parallel as epoch-marking, 138-9 Stentor and individuality, 260 Stoics, 316 Storing of solar energy by plants, 246, 253-6 Strain of bow and indivisibility of motion, 308 Stream, duration as a, 39, 338 Structure and function. See Function and structure identical, in divergent lines of evolution, 55, 60, 61-2, 63, 69, 73-4, 75, 76-7, 83, 86, 87, 118-9 Subject and attribute, 147-8 Substance, albuminoid, 120-1 continuity of living, 162 organic, 121, 131, 140, 142, 149, 162-3, 195-7 note, 255, 267 in Spinoza's philosophy, 350 ternary substances, 121 Substantives, adjectives, verbs, correspond to the three classes of representation, 302-4 Substitution essential to representation of the Nought, 281, 283-4, 289-90, 291, 294, 296 Success of physics, 218, 219-20 and superiority, 133, 264-5 Succession in time, 10, 339, 340, 341, 345. Cf. Juxtaposition Successors of Kant, 363, 364 Sudden mutations, 28, 62-3, 64-5, 68-9 Sun, 115, 241, 323 Superaddition of existence upon nothingness, 276 of order upon disorder, 236, 275 Superimposition. See Measurement of qualities, in induction, 216 Superiority, evolutionary, 133-5, 173, 174-5 Superman, 267 Supraconsciousness, 261 Survival of the fit, 169. See Natural selection Swim, learning to, as instinctive learning, 193, 194 Symbol, the concept is a, 161, 209, 341-2 of reality, xi, 30-1, 71, 88-9, 93, 195-6, 210, 240, 342, 360-1, 369-70 Symbolic knowledge of life, 199, 342, 360 Symbolism, 176, 180, 360 Sympathetic or intuitive knowledge, 209, 210, 342 Sympathy, instinct is, 164, 168, 172-8, 342-3. See Divination, Feeling, Inspiration Systematic metaphysics, dilemma of, 195, 196, 230-1 contrasted with intuitional, 191-2, 193-4, 238, 269, 270, 277, 346-8 postulate of, 190, 195 Systematization of physics, Liebniz's philosophy, 347 Systems, isolated, 9-13, 203, 214, 215, 241, 242, 342, 347-9 Tangent and curve, analogy with deduction and the moral sphere, 214 analogy with physico-chemistry and life, 31 Tarakevitch, 124 note Teleology. See Finalism Tendency, antagonistic tendencies of life, 13, 98, 103, 113, 135, 150 antagonistic tendencies in development of nervous system, 124-5 complementary tendencies of life, 51, 103, 135, 150, 168, 246 to dissociation, 260 divergent tendencies of life, 54, 89, 99, 101, 107-8, 109-10, 112, 116-8, 134, 135, 150, 181, 246, 254-8 to individuation, 13 life a tendency to act on inert matter, 96 toward mobility in animals, 109, 110, 113, 127-8, 129-33, 135, 181, 182 the past exists in present tendency, 5 to reproduce, 13 of species to change, 85-86 mathematical symbols of tendencies, 22, 23 toward systems, in matter, 10 transmission of, 80-1 a vital property is a, 13 Tension and extension, 236, 245 and freedom, 200-2, 207-8, 223, 237, 239, 300-2 matter the inversion of vital, 239 of personality, 199-200, 201, 207-8, 237, 239, 300 Ternary substances, 121 Theology consequent upon philosophy of ideas, 316 Theoretic fallacies, 263, 264 knowledge and instinct, 177, 268 knowledge and intellect, 155, 177, 179, 238, 270, 342, 343 Theorizing not the original function of the intellect, 154-5 Theory of knowledge, xiii, 178, 180, 184-5, 197, 204, 207-8, 209, 228-9, 231 of life, xiii, 178, 180, 197 Thermodynamics, 241-2. See Conservation of energy, Degradation of energy Thesis and antithesis, 205 Thing as distinguished from motion, 187, 202, 247-8, 249, 299-300 as distinguished from relation, 147, 148, 150, 152, 158-9, 159-60, 161, 187, 202, 352, 356-7 and mind, 206 as solidification operated by understanding, 249 Thing-in-itself, 205, 206, 230-1, 312 Timaeus, 318 note Time and the absolute, 240, 241, 297-8, 339, 343-4 abstract, 21, 22, 37, 39 articulations of real, 331-3 as force, 16, 45-6, 47, 51, 103, 339 homogeneous, 17, 18, 163-4, 331-3 as independent variable, 20, 335-7 interval of, 9, 22, 23 as invention, 341-2 in Leibniz's philosophy, 351, 352, 362 and logic, 4, 277 and simultaneity, 9, 336, 337, 341 in modern science 321-37, 341-5 and space in Kant, 205 and space in ancient philosophy, 318, 319. See Duration Tools and intellect, 137-41, 150-1. See Implement Torpor, in evolution, 109, 111, 113, 114 note, 120, 128-35, 181, 292 Tortoise, Achilles and the, in Zeno, 311 Touch, science expresses all perception as touch, 168 is to vision as intelligence to instinct, 169 Track laid by motion along its course, 309-12, 337 Transcendental Aesthetic, 203 Transformation, 32, 72, 73, 131, 231, 263 Transformism, 23-5 Transition, form a snapshot view of, 301-2, 316-7, 318, 321, 344-5 Transmissibility of acquired characters, 75-84, 87, 168, 169, 172-3, 225-6, 230-1 Transmission of the vital impetus, 26, 27, 79, 85, 87, 88, 93-4, 110, 126-7, 128, 230, 231, 246, 255, 256, 257, 259, 270 Trigger-action of motor mechanisms, 272 Triton, Regeneration in, 75 Tropism and psychical activity, 35 note Truth seized in intuition, 318-20 Unconscious effort, 170 instinct, 142-3, 144, 145-6, 147, 166 knowledge, 145-8, 150-1 Unconsciousness, two kinds of, 144 Undefinable, reality, 13, 48 Understanding, absoluteness of, 153-4, 190-1, 197-8, 199, 200 and action, ix, xi, 179 genesis of the, ix-xv, 49, 189, 207-8, 257-9, 359, 361-2 and geometry, ix, xii and innateness of categories, 147, 148-9 and intuition, 46-7 and life, ix-xv, 13, 32-3, 46-50, 88-9, 101, 147-8, 149, 152, 162-5, 173-4, 176-7, 178, 195-201, 213, 220, 222-3, 224, 226, 257-9, 261, 266, 270, 271, 313, 361-2, 365 and inert matter, 166, 168, 179, 194-5, 198, 205-6, 207, 219, 355 and the ready-made, xiii, 48, 237, 250, 251, 273, 311, 321, 328-9, 354, 358 and the solid, ix unlimited scope of the, 149, 150, 152 See Intellect, Intelligence, Concept, Categories, Frames of the understanding, Logic Undone, automatic and determinate evolution is action being, 249 Unfolding cause, 73, 74 Unforeseeableness of action, 47 of duration, 6, 164, 340-2 of evolution, 47, 48, 52, 86, 224 of invention, 164 of life, 164, 184 and the willed order, 224, 342-3 See Foreseeing Unification as the function of the intellect, 152, 154, 357-8 Uniqueness of phases of duration, 164 Unity of extension, 154 of knowledge, 195-6 of life, 106-7, 250, 268, 271 of mental life, 268 and multiplicity as determinations of space, 351-3 of nature, 104-5, 189-90, 191, 195-6, 197, 199, 322, 352, 356-8 of the organism, 176-7 of science, 195-6, 197, 228-9, 230, 321, 322, 344-5, 347, 359-60, 362-3 Universal interaction, 188, 189 life, consciousness coextensive with, 186, 257, 270 Universe, continuity of, 346 Descartes's, 346 physical, and the idea of disorder, 233, 275 duration of, 10, 11, 241 evolution of, 241, 246 note growth of, 342-3, 344 movement of, in Aristotle, 323 mutability of, 244, 245 as organism, 31, 241 as realization of plan, 40 rhythm of, 337, 339, 346-7 states of, considered by science, 336, 337 as unification of physics, 348-9, 357 Unknowable, the, of evolutionism, xi the, in Kant, 204, 205, 206 Unmaking, the nature of the process of materiality, 245, 248, 249, 251, 272, 342-3 Unorganized bodies, 7-8, 14, 20, 21, 186. See inert matter instruments, 137-9, 140-1, 150-1 matter, cleft between, and the organized, 190, 191, 196, 197-9 matter, imitation of the organized by, 33-4, 35, 36 matter and science, 194-6 matter. See inert matter Unwinding cause, 73 of immutability in Greek philosophy, 325, 352 Upspringing of invention, 164 Utility, 4-5, 150, 152, 154-5, 158-9, 160, 168, 187, 195-6, 247-8, 297-8, 328-9, 330 Vanessa levana and Vanessa prorsa, transformation of, 72 Variable, time as an independent, 20, 336 Variation, accidental, 55, 63-4, 68, 85, 168-9 of color, in lizards, 72, 74 by deviation, 82-3, 84 of evolutionary type, 23-4, 72 note, 131-2, 137-8, 167, 169, 171-2, 264 insensible, 63, 68 interest as cause of, 131-2 in plants, 85-86 Vegetable kingdom. See Plants Verb, relation expressed by, 148 Verbs, substantives and adjectives, 303 Verse and prose, in illustration of the two kinds of order, 221, 232 Vertebrate, ix, 126, 130, 131-4, 141 Vibrations, matter analyzed into elementary, 201 Vicious circle, apparent, of intuitionism, 192-4, 196-7 of intellectualism, 194, 197, 318-9, 320 View, intellectual, of becoming, 4, 90-1, 273, 298-9, 304, 305, 310, 326-7 intellectual, of matter, 203, 240, 250, 254, 255 of reality, 206 Vignon, P., 35 note Virtual actions, 12. See Possible action geometry, 212 Vise, consciousness compressed in a, 179 Vision of God, in Alexandrian philosophy, 322 in molluscs. See Eye of molluscs, etc. in Salamandra maculata, 75 Vital activity, 134-6, 139, 140, 166-9, 246, 247-8 current, 26, 27, 53-5, 80, 85, 87, 88, 96-105, 118-9, 120, 230-1, 232, 239, 257, 266, 270 impetus, 50-1, 53-5, 85, 87, 88, 98-105, 118-9, 126-7, 128, 131-2, 141-2, 148-9, 150, 218, 230-1, 232, 247-8, 250, 252, 254-5, 261 order, cause in, 34, 35, 94-5, 164 order, finality and, 223-5, 226 order, generalization in the, and in the mathematical order contrasted, 225, 226, 230-1 order, and the geometrical order, 222-3, 225, 226, 230, 231, 235, 236, 330-1 order, imitation of physical order by vital, 230 principle, 42, 43, 225, 226 order, repetition in the vital and the mathematical orders contrasted, 225, 226, 230, 231 process, 166-7 Vitalism, 42, 43 Void, representation of, 273, 274, 275, 277-8, 281, 283-4, 289-90, 291, 292, 294, 296, 298 Voisin, 80 Volition and cerebral mechanism, 253-4 Voluntary activity, 110, 252 Vries (de), 24, 63 note, 85 Wasps, instinct in, 140, 172 Weapons and intellect, 137 Weismann, 26, 78, 80-1 Will and caprice, 47 and cerebral mechanism, 252 current of, penetrating matter, 237 insertion of, into reality, 305-6, 307 and relaxation, 201, 207-8 and mechanism in disorder, 233 tension of, 199, 201, 207-8 Willed order, mutual contingency of willed order and mathematical order, 231-3 unforeseeability in the, 224, 342-3 Willing, coincidence of seeing and, in intuition, 237 Wilson, E.B., 36 Wolff, 75 note Words and states, 4, 302-3 three classes of, corresponding to three classes of representation, 302-3, 313-4 World, intelligible, 162-3 principle: conciousness, 237, 261 Worms, in illustration of ambiguity of primitive organisms, 130 Yellow-winged sphex, paralyzing instinct in, 172 Zeno on motion, 308-13 Zone of potentialities surrounding acts, 179-80, 181, 264 Zoology, 128-9 Zoospores of algae, in illustration of mobility in plants, 112

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