Consciousness involves analysis of the environment, 11;
analysis of, is an arbitrary process, 12;
a feeling of normality, 6;
a part of crude sensation, 40;
simplified by reasoning, 41;
an intensive multiplicity, 303;
degree of, is parallel to development of sensori-motor system, 280;
not existent outside ourselves, 278;
not a function of chemico-physical mechanism, 160;
intense in difficultly performed operations, 281;
and activity of cerebral cortex, 281;
absent in parasites, 291.
Conservation a test of reality, 357.
Conservation of energy, 52;
in organisms, 83.
Conservation of structure, 253, 256.
Constants, mathematical, 344.
Continuity of cells in embryo, 171.
Contractility, 100;
muscular, 103.
Co-ordinates, systems of, 23.
Corals, 164.
Cosmic evolution, 314;
is a tendency towards degradation of energy, 316.
Creation, special, 214.
Curvature, 27.
Curves, isothermal and adiabatic, 362.
Cuttle-fishes, 250.
Cytoplasm, 130.
Darwin, and natural selection, 221;
acquired characters are inherited, 220;
hypothesis of pangenesis, 181.
Death, is catastrophic katabolism, 340.
Degradation of energy, 81.
Deliberation and consciousness, 281.
Demons, Maxwell’s, 116.
Descartes and mechanism, 121;
the rational soul, 123, 318;
his physiology, 122;
his spiritualism, 124;
and animal automatism, 125.
Descent, collateral, 257.
Determinants in embryology, 132, 183;
arrangement of, 184;
latent in regenerative processes, 142.
Development, organisation in, 128;
parthenogenetic, 176;
reverses inorganic tendencies, 324;
impossibility of chemical hypotheses, 141;
is the assumption of a mosaic structure, 301;
blastula stage in, 129;
gastrula stage in, 130;
pluteus stage in, 140;
individual, 300.
Developmental systems prospective value of, 138;
prospective potency of, 138.
Diatoms, 163;
distribution of, 260.
Differential elements, 115.
Differentiation in development, 170.
Diffusion in the animal body, 95.
Digestion, 67;
chemistry of, 72.
Dinosaurs, an unsuccessful line of evolution, 275.
Dissipation of energy, 114;
in physical mechanisms, 59;
by the organism, 68, 79.
Distribution of organisms, 262;
limits to, 259;
indicative of dominance, 258.
Diversity, physical, 54;
effective and ineffective, 115.
Dominance in geological time, 258;
implies long geological history, 261;
Mendelian, 196.
Dominant organisms, 258, 259, 264.
Driesch natural selection, 229;
analytical definition of the organism, 331;
entelechy, 318;
experimental embryology, 134;
historical basis of reacting, 154;
logical proof of vitalism, 136;
proof of vitalism from behaviour, 153;
theory of the absolute, 47.
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