Morphology, 209;
a basis of classification, 210;
relates groups of organisms, 211;
distinctions of, not absolute, 285, 290;
generalised, 250;
suggests blood relationships, 213;
schemata of, 249, 291;
cannot be considered apart from physiology, 285.
Mosaic-theory of development, 131.
Motion not an intellectual concept, 27;
not considered in Euclidean or Cartesian geometry, 26;
bodily motion is absolute, 24;
outside ourselves is relative, 24.
Motor-habits, 38, 155.
Multicellular organisms, evolution of, 223.
Muscular contraction, 104;
metabolism in, 104;
heat production in, 104.
Muscular and nervous organs, 275.
Musculature and weight of body, 275.
Mutations, 189;
essential nature of, 193;
causes of, 200;
must be co-ordinated, 231;
physical model of, 192;
the material for selection, 230.
Nägeli, and autonomy in development, 160.
Natural selection, 228;
generality of, 229;
a slow process, 230.
Nebulæ, 315.
Nebular hypothesis, 296.
Nerve impulses, 100;
velocity of, 101;
integration of, 273.
Nervous system, 272;
in co-ordination of activities, 171;
paths in, 157.
Nervous activity, 107;
metabolism in, 107;
electric changes in, 107;
influence of metabolism on, 97.
Nothing, a pseudo-idea, 18.
Nucleus, evolution of, 222;
division of, 130, 182.
Ontogenetic stages, 255.
Orders of individuality, 171.
Organism, definition of, 331;
analysis of its activities, 109;
animal and plant, 76;
considered energetically, 77;
the dominant, 258;
a function of the environment, 216;
a mechanism, 51;
the primitive, 222;
a physico-chemical system, 65;
a thermodynamic mechanism, 104.
Organic chemical syntheses, 317.
Organisation in development, 137.
Organ-rudiments, 257.
Osmosis, 95, 99.
Ostracoderms, 291.
Ostwald on catalysis, 91.
Ovum, development of, 129;
maturation of, 198, 239;
an intensive manifoldness, 302.
Oxidases, 105.
Oxygen in metabolism, 69.
Pain, Bergson on, 281.
Palæontology, 210;
relates groups of organisms, 211.
Pangenesis, 181.
Paramœcium, division of, 173, 175;
responses of, 4.
Parasitism, 259;
tends to immobility, 290.
Parthenogenesis, 176;
artificial, 176.
Particles, 356.
Pecten, eye of, 233.
Perception
not merely physical stimulation, 7;
involves effector activity, 7;
involves deliberative action, 9;
arises from acting, 50;
and choice of response, 155;
is unfamiliar cerebral activity, 8;
skeletonises consciousness, 40.
Peridinians, 77, 163;
distribution of, 260.
Personal equation, 45.
Personality, 167;
an intuition, 167;
division of, 173;
is absolute, 48.
Pflüger, and experimental embryology, 131.
Phases in physical systems and organic systems, 321;
in transforming systems, 308.
Phenomenalism, 46.
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