Note 8 — THE INDIVIDUAL ORGANISM WITH REGARD TO FORM AND METABOLISM

We shall not avoid in these lectures the word “explain”—so much out of fashion nowadays. To “explain” means to subsume under known concepts, or rules, or laws, or principles, whether the laws or concepts themselves be “explained” or not. Explaining, therefore, is always relative: what is elemental, of course, is only to be described, or rather to be stated.