Corpuscles, speed in the ether, 65. Creative energy, immanent in matter, 9, 21; its methods, 263. Crystallization, 276, 277. Czapek, Frederick, on vital forces, 133, 152; on life, 164, 166, 169; on enzymes in living bodies, 167. Darwin, Charles, quoted, 9; on force of growing radicles, 19; a contradiction in his philosophy, 254, 255. Electricity, in the constitution of matter, 46-49; a state of the ether, 63; power from, 67, 68; the most mysterious thing in inorganic nature, 223. Electrons, knots in the ether, 63; size and weight, 196; speed, 197; matter dematerialized, 197; bombardment from, 201, 202; revolving in the atom, 203; surface, 203; compared with atoms, 203; properties of matter supplied by, 204. Elements, of living bodies, 38, 39, 77, 78; analogy with the alphabet, 57-59, 206; undergoing spontaneous change, 67; various combinations, 205-208; eagerness to combine, 209. _See also_ Atoms. Eliot, George, on the development theory, 103. Elliot, Hugh S. R., on mechanism, 16. Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 250; on physics and chemistry, 188; quoted, 280. Energy, relation of life to, 177-183; atomic, 204. _See also_ Creative energy _and_ Force. Energy, biotic, 106-111, 145, 146. England, 250. Entities, 99, 100. Environment, 86-88. Enzymes, 167. Ether, the, omnipresent and all-powerful, 61, 62; its nature, 62, 63; its finite character, 65, 66; paradoxes of, 66. Ethics, and the mechanistic conception, 12. Evolution, creative impulse in, 6, 111; progression in, 13, 14; and the arrival of the fit, 244-253; creative, 251-253; evolution of life bound up with the evolution of the world, 281-283; creative protoplasm in, 286; a cosmic view of, 289. Explosives, 43. Fire, chemistry of, 54. Fiske, John, on the soul and immortality, 4; on the physical and the psychical, 75, 183. Fittest, arrival and survival of the, 244-253. Force, physical and mental, 3-5; and life, 17-23; dissymmetric force, 22; the origin of matter, 43, 44. _See also_ Energy. Galls, 147, 154-156. Ganong, William Francis, on life, 181. Germany, in the War of 1914, 249-251. Glaser, Otto C., quoted, 98. Goethe, quoted, 111, 221, 260, 280; as a scientific man, 221. Gotch, Prof., quoted, 270. Grafting, 40, 41. Grand Canon of the Colorado, 225, 228, 229. Grape sugar, 208. Growth, of a germ, 217, 218. Haeckel, Ernst, 3, 285; on physical activity in the atom, 25, 26; his "living inorganics," 91; on the origin of life, 161; on inheritance and adaptation, 184; his "plastidules," 217; a contradiction in his philosophy, 256. Hartog, Marcus, 129. Heat, changes wrought by, 55, 56; detection of, at a distance, 60. Helmholtz, Hermann von, on life, 25, 161. Henderson, Lawrence J., his "Fitness of the Environment," 73; his concession to the vitalists, 83, 85; on the environment, 86-88; a thorough mechanist, 88, 89. Horse-power, 177, 178.