Parallel Paths: A Study in Biology, Ethics, and ArtRolleston, T. W. (Thomas William)
Philosophy
Parallel Paths: A Study in Biology, Ethics, and Art
Rolleston, T. W. (Thomas William)
Art; Ethics; Science -- Philosophy
Art, 158;
and Beauty, 237, 251;
origin of, 239;
question of subject in, 244, 268;
an expression of life, 246, 250;
Greek and Hottentot ideals of, 253;
classification of the arts, 254;
art in structure, 256;
in ornament, 259;
artistic effect of use and service, 260.
See Music, Dancing, Literature, etc.
Asceticism, 214 _sqq._, 218 _note_
Axolotl, 125
_Azolla_ fern, 141
Bacon, F., 6
Becoming, the universe a, 20, 186;
Deity conceived as ‘becoming,’ 5
Beddard, F. E., 24 _note_, 58, 106
Bentham, J., 200
Berkeley, Bp., 165 _note_, 176 _note_
Bifocal eyes in fish, 99
Bisexuality, significance of, in _Mollusca_, 101
Bose, J. C., 21 _note_
Brain-structure and Will, 178, 184
Brown-Séquard, 78
Butler, Bp., 241
Bütschli, O., 30
Butterflies, protective colouring of, 15, 83, 98, 106, 113, 127
Catullus, 222
Cave-animals, 71, 72 _note_, 78
Cell, the, 29, 38;
division of, 40 _sqq._;
germ and sperm
cells, 45, 51;
fusion of, in reproduction, 53
Chaffinch, case of hermaphrodite, 58
Chlorophyll, 24;
in animals, 26
Christ, 205;
martyrdom of, 232
Chromatin, 39 _sqq._
Cleanthes, 247
Co-adaptation, 70, 80, 98, 138
Competition, 58, 105
Conjugation, 47
Conscience, 211
Co-operation among animals, 104, _Appendix B_;
among species, 138
Crabs, hermit, 141;
Molucca, 280
Crystallization, 22 _note_, 156
Dancing, 270
Darwin, Erasmus, 6, 281
Darwin, Francis, 7, 33, 72, 87, 138
Death, significance of, for the spirit, 190, 235
Deity, the end, not beginning of nature, 5;
personality of, 14, 17;
immanent or transcendent? 155;
defined by Æschylus, 159;
an infinite, not related to phenomena, 162;
how approached by man, 159, 162, _Appendix A_
Determinants, 44;
competition among, 98;
significance of, in evolution, 68, 96
Determinism, doctrine of, 163 _sqq._
Development contrasted with growth, 32
Dice, of nature loaded, 92, 102
Dominants. See Reinke
Drama, 272
Dualism, 195
Duty, sense of, not created by pleasures and pains, 203;
effects of, compared with those of self-indulgence, 212
Ego, the, 157, 207, _Appendix A_
Eimer, G., 77 _note_, 110, 113 _note_, 137, 143, 152
Elk, the Irish, 70
Energy, how obtained by plants, 25;
developed by synthesis, 27, 147;
vital and mechanical, how distinguished, 144, 146, 148;
supposed effects of the equal distribution of, 222
Epictetus, 218, 226
Ethics, how affected by determinism, 162-3;
ethical development a condition of Free-will, 171;
the problem of evil, 199, 207;
utilitarian systems of, 201;
goal of ethical action, 203 _sqq._;
sanction of ethical action, 234;
ethics epitomized, 234;
ethics of sex relations, _Appendix E_
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