Chapter 15

86Elaborateness of the mathematical order,208-10,217,251Eleatic philosophy,308,314-5Emanation, logical thought an, issue, aspect or deposit of life,ix,xii,xiii,49Embroidering "something" on the canvas of "nothing,"297Embroidery by descendants on the canvas handed down by ancestors,23Embryo,18,19,26,27,75,81,89,101,166Embryogeny, comparative, and transformism,25Embryonic life,27,166Empirical study of evolution the centre of the theory of knowledge and of the theory of life,178theories of knowledge,205Empty, thinking the full by means of the empty,273-4End in Eleatic philosophy,314-5of science is practical utility,329Energy,115-7,120-3,242,243,245,246,252-5,256,257,262conservation of,242degradation of,242,243,246solar, stored by plants, released by animals,245,254Enneadae of Plotinus,210noteEntelechy of Driesch,42noteEntropy,243Environment in evolution,129,133,138,140,142,150,167,168,170,192,193,252,256,257and special instincts,138,168,192,193Epiphenomenalism,262Essence and accidents in Aristotle's philosophy,353or form in Eleatic philosophy,314-5the meaning of,302-3Essences (or forms), qualities and acts, the three kinds of representation,303-4Eternity,39,298,314,317,320,324,328,346,352,354in the philosophy of Ideas,316-7,319,324,328in Spinoza's philosophy,353Euglena,116Evellin,311noteEventual actions,11,96.SeePossible activityEvolution,ix-xv,18,20,22,24,25,26-7,37,46-55,63,68,79note,84-8,97-105,107,113,116,126,127,129-30,131-2,133,134,136,138-40,141-2,143,161,166,167,168-72,173,174,175,179,181,182,185,186,190,193,198-9,207-8,224,231,242note,246,248,249,251,252,254,264-6,268,273,302,311,345,359,360,366accident in,104,169,170,173,174,251,252animal, a progress toward mobility,131antagonistic tendencies in,103,113,185automatic and determinate, is action being undone,248blind alleys of,129circularity of each special,128complementarity of the divergent lines of,97-102,103,116conceptually inexpressible,49,50,52,53,127,181,273continuity of,18,19,26,37,46,273,302,312,345creative,7,15,21,27,30,36,37,65,100,105,161,162,163,223,230,238,264,269culminating points of,50,133,174,185,265,266,268development by,133,134,141-2divergent lines of, xii,53,54,87,97-101,103-4,107,173-4,246and duration,20,22,37,45-6empirical study of, the centre of the theory of knowledge and of life,178and environment,101-3,129,133,138,142,150,167,168,169,192,193,251,256,257of instinct,170,171,174-5.SeeDivergent lines, etc., Culminating points, etc., Evolution and environmentof intellect,x-xii,153,186,189-90,193,198-9,207-8,359,360.SeeDivergent lines, etc., Culminating points, etc., Genesis of matter and of intellectas invention,344of man,264,266,268.SeeCulminating points, etc.motive principle of, is consciousness,181of species product of the vital impetus opposed by matter,247-8,254and transformism,24unforeseeable,47,48,53,86,224variation in,23-4,55,63,68,72note,85,131,137-8,167,169,171,264Evolutionary, qualitative, and extensive motion302-3,311,312superiority,133-5,174-5.SeeSuccess, Criterion of evolutionary rank, Culminating points, etc.Evolutionism,x-xii,xiv,77,84,364Exhaustion of the mutability of the universe,337-8Existence, logical, as contrasted with psychical and physical,276,362of matter tends toward instantaneity,201of self means change,1ff.superaddition of, upon nothingness,276Expectation,214-6,221,222,226,233,235,274,281,292in conception of disorder,221,222,226,233,234,235,274in conception of void or naught,282,292Experience,138,147,177,197,204,229,321,354,359,363,368Explosion, illustrating cause by release,73Explosive character of animal energy,116,119,120,246of organization,92Explosives, manufacture of, by plants and use by animals,246,254Extension,149,154,161,202,203,207,211,223,236,245,318-20,324,327,351,352continuity of,154discontinuity of, relative to action,154,162as the distance between what is and what ought to be,318divisibility of,154,162the most general property of matter,154,250,251the inverse movement to tension,245of knowledge,150in Leibniz's philosophy,351,352of matter in space,204,211in the philosophy of Ideas,318-9,323-4,327and relaxation,202,207,209,211,212,218,223,245in Spinoza's philosophy,350in the Transcendental Aesthetic,203unity of,158-9as weakening of the essence of being, in Plotinus,210noteExtensive, evolutionary and qualitative motion,302-3,311,312External conditions in evolution,128,133,137,141-2,150-1,167,168,170,192,193,252,256,257finality,41Externality of concepts,160,168,174,177,199,251,305,311-4the most general property of matter,154,250,251Externalized action in distinction from internalized,147,165.SeeSomnambulism, etc., Automatic activity, etc.Eyeof mollusc and vertebrate compared,60,75,77,84,86,87-8Fabre,172noteFabrication.SeeConstructionFallacies, two fundamental,272,273Fallacy of thinking being by not-being,276,277,284,297-8of thinking the full by the empty,273-5of thinking motion by the motionless,272,273,297-8,307-8,309-14Fallibility of instinct,172-3Falling back of matter upon consciousness,264bodies, comparison of Aristotle and Galileo,228,331-2,334weight, figure of material world,245,246Familiar, the, is the object of intellect,163,164,199,270Faraday,203Fasting, in reference to primacy of nervous system over the other physiological systems,124Fauna, menace of torpor in primitive,130Feeling in the conception of chance,207and instinct,143,174-5Fencing-master, illustrating hereditary transmission,79Ferments, certain characteristics of,106Fertilization of orchids by insects, by Darwin,170noteFichte's conception of the intellect,189-90,357Filings, iron, in illustration of the relation of structure to function,94,95Film, cinematographic, figure of abstract motion,304-6Final cause,40,45,234,325conception of, involves conception of mechanical cause,44God as, in Aristotle,322-3Finalism,39-53,58,74,88-97,101-5,126-8Finality,41,164,177-8,185,223,224,266external and internal,41misfit for the vital,177,223-4,225,266and the unforeseeableness of life,164,185Fischel,75noteFish in illustration of animal tendency to mobility,130,131Fixation of nutritive elements,107-9,113,117,246,247,253Fixity,108-13,118,119,130,155.SeeTorporapparent or relative,155cellulose envelope and the, of plants,108,111,130of extension,155of plants,108-13,118,119,130-1of torpid animals,130Flint hatchets and human intelligence,137Fluidity of life,153,165,193of matter as a whole,186,369Flux of material bodies,265of reality,250,251,337,342,344Flying arrow of Zeno,308,309,310Focalization of personality,201Food,106-9,113-4,117,120,121,246,247,254Foraminifera, failure of certain, to evolve,197Force,126-7,141,149,150,175,246,254,339life a, inverse to matter,246limitedness of vital force,126,127,141,149,162time as,339-40Forel,176noteForeseeing,8,28,29,30,37,45,47,96.SeeUnforeseeablenessForm,xi,51,101,104,113,116-8,129,135-6,148-53,155,156,160,164,195-7,222,237,250,255,302,303,314,317,318,322,341,357,359,361,362


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