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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