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Creative Evolution

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Action, creativeness of free, 192, 247 and concepts, 160, 297 and consciousness, xiii, 5, 143-4, 145, 179-80, 207, 262 discontinuity of, 154, 307 freedom of, in animals, 130 as function of nervous system, 262-3 indivisibility of, 94, 95, 308-9 and inert matter, 96, 136, 141-2, 156, 187, 198, 226, 366 instinct and, 136, 141 instrument of, consciousness, 180 instrument of, life, 162 instrument of matter, 161, 198-9 as instrument of consciousness, 180 and intellect. _See_ Intellect and action intensity of consciousness varies with ratio of possible, to real, 145 meaning of, 301-3 moves from want to fulness, 297, 298 organism a machine for, 252, 254, 300 and perception, 5, 11, 12, 93, 188, 189, 206, 227-30, 300, 307, 368 possible, 12, 13, 96, 144, 145, 146-7, 159, 165, 179-81, 188, 264 and science, 93, 195-6, 198-9, 329-30 and space, 203 sphere of the intellect, 155 tension in a free, 200, 207, 238, 240, 301-2 Activity, dissatisfaction the starting-point of, 297 of instinct, continuous with vital process, 139, 140 life as, 128-9, 247 mutually inverse factors in vital, 248 and nervous system, 110, 130, 132-3, 134-5, 180, 252, 261-3 organism as, 174 potential. _See_ Action, possible tension of free, 200, 202, 207-8, 223-4, 237, 239, 300-1 and torpor in evolution, 109, 111, 113, 114, 119-20, 129-30, 135-6, 181, 292 vital, has evolved divergently, 134 _See_ Divergent lines of evolution Adequate and inadequate in Spinoza, 353 Adjectives, substantives and verbs, 303-4, 315 Aesthetics and philosophy, 177 Affection, Role of, in the idea of chance, 234 in the idea of nought, 281-3, 289, 293, 295, 296 in negation, 286-7 Affirmation and negation, 285-6, 293 Age and individuality, 15-6 Albuminoid substances, 121-2 Alciope, 96 Alexandrian philosophy, 322, 323 Algae in illustration of probable consciousness in vegetable forms, 112 Allegory of the Cave, 191 Alternations of increase and decrease of mutability of the universe, 245-6 Alveolar froth, 33-4 Ambiguity of the idea of "generality" in philosophy, 230-1, 320-1 of primitive organisms, 99, 112, 113, 129-30 Ammophila hirsuta, paralyzing instinct in, 173 Amoeba, in illustration of imitation of the living by the unorganized, 33-6 in illustration of the ambiguity of primitive organisms, 99 in illustration of the mobility characteristic of animals, 108 in illustration of the "explosive" expenditure of energy characteristic of animals, 120, 253 Anagenesis, 34 Anarchy, idea of, 233, 234. _See_ Disorder Anatomy, comparative, and transformism, 25 Ancient philosophy, Achilles and tortoise, 311-2 Alexandrian philosophy, 322-3 Allegory of the Cave, 191 Anima (De), 322 _note_ Apogee of sensible object, 344, 345, 349 Archimedes, 343-4 Aristotle, 135, 174-5, 227-8, 314, 316, 321, 323, 324, 328-33, 347, 349, 353, 356, 370 Arrow of Zeno, 308-13 ascent toward God, in Aristotle, 323 Astronomy, ancient and modern, 334-6 attraction and impulsion in, 323-4 becoming in, 313-4, 317 bow and indivisibility of motion, 308-9 Caelo (De), of Aristotle, 322 _note_, 324 _note_ and Cartesian geometry, 334-5 causality in, 323, 325-6 change in, 313-4, 317, 328-9, 342-3 cinematographical nature of, 315 circularity of God's thought, 323-4 concentric spheres, 328 concepts, 326-7, 356 "conversion" and "procession" in, 323 degradation of ideas into sensible flux, 317-8, 321, 323-4, 327, 328, 343-5, 352-3 degrees of reality, 323-4, 327 diminution, derivation of becoming by. _See_ Degradation of Ideas, etc. duration, 317-9 _note_, 323-4, 327-9 Eleatic philosophy, 308, 314 Enneads of Plotinus, 210 _note_ essence and accident, 354 essence or form, 314-5 eternal, 317-8, 324-6 Eternity, 317-8, 320, 324, 328-9 extension, 210 _note_, 318, 324, 327 form or idea, 314-20, 322, 327, 329-31, 352 geometry, Cartesian, and ancient philosophy, 334 God of Aristotle, 196-7, 322-4, 349, 352, 356 [Greek: hylê], 353 Idea, 314-22, 352-3 and indivisibility of motion, 307-8, 311 intelligible reality in, 326 intelligibles of Plotinus, 353 [Greek: logos], of Plotinus, 210 _note_ matter in Aristotle's philosophy, 316, 327 and modern astronomy, 333-4, 335 and modern geometry, 333-4 and modern philosophy, 226-7, 228-9, 232, 281-2, 344-5, 346, 349-51, 364, and modern science, 329-30, 336, 342-3, 344-5, 357 motion in, 307-8, 312-3 necessity in, 327 [Greek: noêseôs noêsis], 356 non-being, 316, 327 [Greek: nous poiêtikos], 322 oscillation about being, sensible reality as, 317-8 Physics of Aristotle, 227-8 _note_, 324 _note_, 330-1 Plato, 48, 156, 191, 210 _note_, 316-8, 321-4, 327, 330, 348, 349 Plotinus, 210, 316, 323, 326 _note_, 349, 352-4 procession in Alexandrian philosophy, 323 [Greek: psychê], 210 _note_, 350 realism in, 232 refraction of idea through matter or non-being, 317 sectioning of becoming, 318-9 sensible reality, 314, 316-8, 321, 327-9, 352-3 [Greek: sôma], 350 space and time, 317-9, 320 Timaeus, 318 _note_ time in ancient and in modern science, 330-1, 336-7, 341-4 time and space, 317-9, 320 vision of God in Alexandrian philosophy, 322 Zeno, 308, 313 Ancient science and modern, 329-31, 336-7, 342-5, 357 Anima (De), of Aristotle, 322 _note_ Antagonistic currents of the vital impetus, 129, 135-6, 181, 184, 250, 258-9 Anthophora, 146-7 Antinomies of Kant, 204, 205 Antipathy. _See_ Sympathy, Feeling, Divination Antithesis and thesis, 205 Ape's brain and consciousness contrasted with man's, 263 Aphasia, 181 Apidae, social instinct in the, 171 Apogee of instinct in the hymenoptera and of intelligence in man, 174-5 _See_ Evolutionary superiority Apogee of sensible object, in philosophy of Ideas, 343-4, 349 Approximateness of the knowledge of matter, 206-7 Approximation, in matter, to the mathematical order, 218. _See_ Order Archimedes, 333-4 Aristotle. _See_ Ancient Philosophy, Aristotle Arrow, Flying, of Zeno, 308-9, 310, 312-3 Artemia Salina, transformations of, 72, 73 Arthropods in evolution, 130-5, 142 Articulate species, 133 Articulations of matter relative to action, 156, 367 of motion, 310-1 of real time, 332-3 Artificial, how far scientific knowledge is, 197, 218-9 instruments, 138, 139, 140-1 Artist, in illustration of the creativeness of duration, 340-1 Ascent toward God, in Aristotle, 323 Association of organisms, 260. _See_ Individuation universal oscillation between association and individuation, 259, 260. _See_ Societies Astronomy and deduction, 213 and the inert order, 224 modern, in reference to ancient science, 334-6 Atmosphere of spatiality bathing intelligence, 204 Atom, 240, 254, 255 as an intellectual view of matter, 203, 250 and interpenetration, 207 Attack and defence in evolution, 131-2 Attention, 2, 148-9, 154, 184, 209 discontinuity of, 2 in man and in lower animals, 184. _See_ Tension and instinct, Tension as inverted extension, Tension of personality, Sympathetic appreciation, etc., Relaxation and intellect Attraction and impulsion in Greek philosophy, 323, 324 Attribute and subject, 148 Automatic activity, 145 as instrument of voluntary, 252 order, 224, 231-4. _See_ Negative movement, etc., Geometrical order Background of instinct and intelligence, consciousness as, 186 Backward-looking attitude of the intellect, 47, 48, 237 Bastian, 212 _note_ Bateson, 63 Becoming, 164, 236, 248-9, 273, 299-304, 307-8, 313-4, 316, 337-8, 342-3, 345, 363 in ancient philosophy, 313-4, 317 in Descartes's philosophy, 346 in Eleatic philosophy, 313-4, 315 in general, or abstract becoming, 304, 306-7 instantaneous and static views of, 272, 304-5 states of, falsely so called, 164, 247-8, 273, 298-301, 307-8 in the successors of Kant, 363. _See_ Change, New, Duration, Time, Views of reality Beethoven, 224 Berthold, 34 _note_ Bethe, 176 _note_ Bifurcations of tendency, 54. _See_ Divergent lines of evolution Blaringhem, 85 Bodies, 156, 188, 189, 300-1, 360. _See_ Inert matter as a relaxation of the unextended into the extended defined as bundles of qualities, 349 Boltzmann, 245 Bombines, social instincts in, 171 Bouvier, 142 _note_ Bow, strain of, illustrating indivisibility of motion, 308-10 Brandt, 66 _note_ Breast-Plate, in reference to animal mobility, 130, 131. _See_ Carapace, Cellulose envelope Brown-Séquard, 80-2 Bulb, medullary, in the development of the nervous system, 110, 252 Busquet, 259 _note_ Bütschli, 33 _note_ Butterflies, in illustration of variation from evolutionary type, 72 Caelo (De), of Aristotle, 322 _note_, 324 _note_ Calcareous sheath, in reference to animal mobility, 130-1 Calkins, 16 _note_ Canal, in illustration of the relation of function and structure, 93 Canalization, in illustration of the function of animal organisms, 93, 95, 110, 126, 256, 270 Canvas, embroidering "something" on the, of "nothing," 297 Caprice, an attribute not of freedom but of mechanism, 47 Carapace, in reference to animal mobility, 130-1 Carbohydrates, in reference to the function of the animal organism, 121-2 Carbon, in reference to the function of organisms, 107, 113, 114, 117, 254, 255 Carbonic acid, in reference to the function of organisms, 254, 255 Cartesian geometry, compared with ancient, 334 Cartesians, 358. _See_ Spinoza, Leibniz Carving, the, of matter by intellect, 155 Categorical propositions, characteristic of instinctive knowledge, 149-50 Categories, conceptual, x, xiii, 48, 147, 148-9, 165, 189-90, 195-7, 207, 220-1, 257-60, 265, 358, 361. _See_ Concept deduction of, and genesis of the intellect, 196, 207, 359. _See_ Genesis of matter and of the intellect innate, 147, 148-9 misfit for the vital, x, xiii, 48, 165, 195-9, 220-1, 257-9 in reference to the adaptation to each other of the matter and form of knowledge, 361 Cats, in illustration of the law of correlation, 67 Causal relation in Aristotle, 325 between consciousness and movement, 111 in Greek philosophy, 324-5 Causality, mechanical, a category which does not apply to life, x, xiv, 177 in the philosophy of Ideas, 323-6 Causation and adaptation, 101, 102 final, involves mechanical, 44 Cause and effect as mathematical functions of each other, 20, 21 efficient, 238, 277, 323 efficient, in Aristotle's philosophy, 324 efficient, in Leibniz's philosophy, 353 final, 40, 44, 238 final, in Aristotle's philosophy, 324 by impulsion, release and unwinding, 73 mechanical, as containing effect, 14, 233, 269 in the vital order, 95, 164 Cave, Plato's allegory of the, 191 Cell, 16, 24, 33, 162, 166, 167, 260, 269 as artificial construct, 162 in the "colonial theory," 260 division, 16, 24, 33 instinct in the, 166, 167 in relation to the soul, 269 Cellulose envelope in reference to vegetable immobility and torpor, 108, 111, 130 Cerebro-spinal system, 124. _See_ Nervous system Certainty of induction, 215, 216 Chaos, 232. _See_ Disorder Character, moral, 5, 99-100 Charrin, 81 _note_ Child, intelligence in, 147-8 adolescence of, in illustration of evolutionary becoming, 311-3 Chipped stone, in paleontology, 139 Circle of the given, broken by action, 192, 247 logical and physical, 277 vicious, in intellectualist philosophy, 193, 197, 320 vicious, in the intuitional method is only apparent, 192, 193 Circularity of God's thought in Aristotle's philosophy, 324 of each special evolution, 128 Circulation, protoplasmic, imitated, 32-3 in plants and animals, 108 Classes of words corresponding to the three kinds of representation, 303-4 Clausius, 243 Clearness characteristic of intellect, 160 Cleft between the organized and the unorganized, 190, 196-9 Climbing plants, instincts of, 170 _note_ Coincidence of matter with space as in Kant, 206, 207, 244 of mind with intellect as in Kant, 48, 206 of qualities, 216 of seeing and willing, 237 of self with self, definition of the feeling of duration, 199-200 Coleopter, instinct in, 146 Colonial theory, 259, 260 Colonies, microbial, 259 Color variation in lizards, 72, 74 Coming and going of the mind between the without and the within gives rise to the idea of "Nothing," 279 between nature and mind, the true method of philosophy, 239 Compenetration, 352-3. _See_ Interpenetration Complementarity of forms evolved, xii, xiii, 51, 101, 103, 113, 116-7, 135, 136, 254, 255 of instinct and intelligence, 146, 173. _See_ Opposition of Instinct and Intelligence of intuition and intellect, 343, 345 in the powers of life, 49, 96-7, 140-3, 177, 178-9, 183-5, 239, 246, 254, 343 of science and metaphysics, 344 Complexity of the order of mathematics, 208-10, 217, 251 Compound reflex, instinct as a, 174 Concentration, intellect as, 191, 301 of personality, 198-9, 201 Concentric spheres in Aristotle's philosophy, 328 Concept accessory to action, ix analogy of, with the solid body, ix in animals, 187 externality of, 160, 168, 175-8, 199-200, 251, 306, 311, 314 fringed about with intuition, 46 and image distinguished, 160, 279 impotent to grasp life, ix-xiii, 49 intellect the concept-making faculty, vi, 49 misfit for the vital, 48 representation of the act by which the intellect is fixed on things, 161 synthesis of, in ancient philosophy, 325-6, 356. _See_ Categories, Externality, Frames, Image, Space, Symbol Conduct, mechanism and finality in the evolution of, 47. _See_ Freedom, Determination, Indetermination Confused plurality of life, 257 Conjugation of Infusoria, 16 Consciousness and action, ix, 5, 144, 145, 179-80, 207, 260-1 consciousness as appendage to action, ix consciousness as arithmetical difference between possible and real activity, 145 consciousness as auxiliary to action, 179-80 consciousness as inadequacy of act to representation, 144 consciousness as instrument of action, 180 consciousness as interval between possible and real action, 145, 179 consciousness as light from zone of possible actions surrounding the real act, 179 consciousness and locomotion, 262 consciousness plugged up by action, 144, 145. _See_ Torpor, Sleep consciousness as sketch of action, 207 intensity of, varies with ratio of possible to real action, 145 Consciousness in animals, as distinguished from the consciousness of plants, 130, 135-6, 143 as distinguished from the consciousness of man, 139-43, 180, 183, 184, 187, 188, 212, 263-9. _See_ Torpor, Sleep characteristic of animals, torpor of plants, 109, 111, 113, 120, 128-9, 135-6, 181, 182, 292 as background of instinct and intelligence, 186 and brain, 180, 262, 263, 269, 270, 354 and choice, 110, 144-5, 179, 262-4 coextensive with universal life, 186, 270 and creation, consciousness as demand for creation, 261 current of, penetrating matter, 181, 270 as deficiency of instinct, 145 in dog and man, 180 double form of, 179 function of, 207 as hesitation or choice, 143, 144 imprisonment of, 180, 183-4, 264 as invention and freedom, 264, 270 in man as distinguished from, in lower forms of life, 180, 263, 264, 267, 268 and matter, 179, 181-2 as motive principle of evolution, 181-2 nullified, as distinguished from the absence of consciousness, 143 and the organism, 270 in plants, 131, 135-6, 143 as world principle, 237, 261 Conservation of energy, 243, 244 Construction, 139-42, 150-1, 156, 157-8, 180, 182. _See_ Manufacture, Solid the characteristic work of intellect, 163-4 as the method of Kant's successors, 364-5 Contingency, 96, 255, 268. _See_ Accident, Chance the, of order, 231, 235 Continuation of vital process in instinct, 138, 139, 166, 167, 246. _See_ Variations, Vital process Conventionality of science, 207 "Conversion" and "procession" in Alexandrian philosophy, 323 Cook, Plato's comparison of the, and the dialectician, 156 Correlation, law of, 66, 67 Correspondence between mind and matter in Spencer, 368. _See_ Simultaneity Cortical mechanism, 252, 253, 262. _See_ Cerebral mechanism Cosmogony and genesis of matter, 188. _See_ Genesis of matter and of intellect, Spencer Cosmology the, that follows from the philosophy of Ideas, 315, 328 as reversed psychology, 208 Counterweight representation as, to action, 145 Counting simultaneities, the measurement of time is, 338, 341-2 Creativeness of free action, 192, 243 of invention, 250 Creeping plants in illustration of vegetable mobility, 108 Cricket victim of paralyzing instinct of sphex, 172 Criterion, quest of a, 53 _ff._ of evolutionary rank, 133, 265 Cross-cuts through becoming by intellect, 314. _See_ Views of reality through matter by perception, 206 Crystal illustrating (by contrast) individuation, 12 Cuénot, 79 _note_ Culminating points of evolutionary progress, 50, 133-5. _See_ Evolutionary superiority Currents, antagonistic, 250 of existence, 185 of life penetrating matter, 26, 27, 266, 270 vital, 26, 27, 51, 237, 266, 270 of will penetrating matter, 237 Curves, as symbol of life, 32, 90, 213 Cuts through becoming by the intellect, 313-4. _See_ Views of reality, Snapshots in illustration, etc. through matter by perception, 206 Cuvier, 125 _note_ Dastre, 36 _note_ Dead, the, is the object of intellect, 165 Declivity descended by matter, 208, 246, 256, 339-40. _See_ Descending movement Decomposing and recomposing powers characteristic of intellect, 157, 251 Deduction, analogy between, related to moral sphere and tangent to curve, 213 and astronomy, 213 duration refractory to, 213 geometry the ideal limit of, 213-26, 361 in animals, 212 inverse to positive spiritual effort, 212 nature of, 211 physics and, 213 weakness of, in psychology and moral science, 213 Defence and attack in evolution, 132 Deficiency of will the negative condition of mathematical order and complexity, 209 Definition in the realm of life, 13, 105, 106 Degenerates, 133-5 Degradation of energy, 241, 242, 246 of the extra-spatial into the spatial, 207 of the ideas into the sensible flux in ancient philosophy, 317-9, 324-5, 327-9, 331, 343, 345, 352-3 Degrees of being in the successors of Kant, 362-3 Degrees of reality in Greek philosophy, 324, 327 Delamare, 81 _note_ Deliberation, 144 De Manacéine, 124 _note_ Deposit, instinct and intelligence as deposits, emanations, issues, or aspects of life, x, xii, xiii, 49, 103, 105, 136, 365 De Saporta, 107 _note_ Descartes, 280, 334, 345, 346, 353, 358 becoming, 345-6 creation, 346 determinism, 345 duration, 346 freedom, 345, 346 geometry, 334 God, 346 image and idea or concept, 281 indeterminism, 345 mechanism, 345, 346 motion, 346 vacillation between abstract time and real duration, 345 Design, motionless, of action the object of intellect, 154-5, 299, 301-2, 303 Detention in the dream state, 202 of intuition in intellect, 238 Determinism, 217, 264, 345, 348. _See_ Inert matter, Geometry in Descartes, 345 Development, 133, 134-5, 141. _See_ Order, Progress, Evolution, Superiority Deviation from type, 82-4 Dialect and intuition in philosophy, 238 Dichotomy of the real in modern philosophy, 350 Differentiation of parts in an organism, 253, 260 Dilemma of any systematic metaphysics, 195, 197, 230 Diminution, derivation of becoming from being by, in ancient philosophy, 316, 317, 322, 323-4, 327-8, 343-5, 352 geometrical order as, or lower complication of the vital order, 236 Dionaea illustrating certain animal characteristics in plants, 107, 108, 109 Discontinuity of action, 154, 306-7 of attention, 2 of extension relative to action, 154, 163 of knowledge, 306 of living substance, 163 a positive idea, 154 Discontinuous the object of intellect, 154 Disorder, 40, 104, 222-3, 225-6, 232-5, 274. _See_ Expectation, Order, mathematical, Orders of reality, two Disproportion between an invention and its consequences, 182 Dissociation as a cosmic principle opposed to association, 260 of tendencies, 54, 89, 135, 254, 255, 257, 258. _See_ Divergent lines of evolution Distance, extension as the, between what is and what ought to be, 318-9, 327-8, 331 Distinct multiplicity in the dream state, 201, 210 of the inert, 257 Distinctness characteristic of the intellect, 160, 237, 251 characteristic of perception, 227, 251 as spatiality, 203, 207-8, 244, 250 Divination, instinct as, 176. _See_ Sympathy, etc.

Divisibility of extension, 154, 162 Division as function of intellect, 152, 154, 162-3, 189 of labor, 99, 110, 118, 157, 166, 260 of labor in cells, 166 Dog and man, consciousness in, 180 Dogmatism of the ancient epistemology contrasted with the relativism of the modern, 230 of Leibniz and Spinoza, 356-7 skepticism, and relativism, 196-7, 230 Dogs and the law of correlation, 66 Domestication of animals and heredity, 80 Dominants of Reinke, 42 _note_ Dorfmeister, 72 Dream, 144, 180-1, 202, 209, 256. _See_ Interpenetration, Relaxation, Detention, Recollection as relaxation, 202 Driesch, 42 _note_ Dufourt, 124 _note_ Duhem, 242 _note_ Dunan, Ch., xv _note_ Echinoderms in reference to animal mobility, 130, 131 Efficient cause in conception of chance, 234 Spinoza and, 269 Effort in evolution, 170 [Greek: Eidos], 314-5 Elaborateness of the mathematical order, 208-10, 217, 251 Eleatic philosophy, 308, 314-5 Emanation, logical thought an, issue, aspect or deposit of life, ix, xii, xiii, 49 Embroidering "something" on the canvas of "nothing," 297 Embroidery by descendants on the canvas handed down by ancestors, 23 Embryogeny, comparative, and transformism, 25 Embryonic life, 27, 166 Empirical study of evolution the centre of the theory of knowledge and of the theory of life, 178 theories of knowledge, 205 Empty, thinking the full by means of the empty, 273-4 End in Eleatic philosophy, 314-5 of science is practical utility, 329 Enneadae of Plotinus, 210 _note_ Entelechy of Driesch, 42 _note_ Entropy, 243 Epiphenomenalism, 262 Essence and accidents in Aristotle's philosophy, 353 or form in Eleatic philosophy, 314-5 the meaning of, 302-3 Essences (or forms), qualities and acts, the three kinds of representation, 303-4 Euglena, 116 Evellin, 311 _note_ Eventual actions, 11, 96. _See_ Possible activity Evolutionary, qualitative, and extensive motion 302-3, 311, 312 superiority, 133-5, 174-5. _See_ Success, Criterion of evolutionary rank, Culminating points, etc.

Exhaustion of the mutability of the universe, 337-8 Existence, logical, as contrasted with psychical and physical, 276, 362 of matter tends toward instantaneity, 201 of self means change, 1 _ff._ superaddition of, upon nothingness, 276 Explosion, illustrating cause by release, 73 Explosive character of animal energy, 116, 119, 120, 246 of organization, 92 Explosives, manufacture of, by plants and use by animals, 246, 254 Extension, 149, 154, 161, 202, 203, 207, 211, 223, 236, 245, 318-20, 324, 327, 351, 352 continuity of, 154 discontinuity of, relative to action, 154, 162 as the distance between what is and what ought to be, 318 divisibility of, 154, 162 the most general property of matter, 154, 250, 251 the inverse movement to tension, 245 of knowledge, 150 in Leibniz's philosophy, 351, 352 of matter in space, 204, 211 in the philosophy of Ideas, 318-9, 323-4, 327 and relaxation, 202, 207, 209, 211, 212, 218, 223, 245 in Spinoza's philosophy, 350 in the Transcendental Aesthetic, 203 unity of, 158-9 as weakening of the essence of being, in Plotinus, 210 _note_ Extensive, evolutionary and qualitative motion, 302-3, 311, 312 Externalized action in distinction from internalized, 147, 165. _See_ Somnambulism, etc., Automatic activity, etc.

Eye of mollusc and vertebrate compared, 60, 75, 77, 84, 86, 87-8 Fabre, 172 _note_ Fabrication. _See_ Construction Fallacies, two fundamental, 272, 273 Fallacy of thinking being by not-being, 276, 277, 284, 297-8 of thinking the full by the empty, 273-5 of thinking motion by the motionless, 272, 273, 297-8, 307-8, 309-14 Fallibility of instinct, 172-3 Falling back of matter upon consciousness, 264 bodies, comparison of Aristotle and Galileo, 228, 331-2, 334 weight, figure of material world, 245, 246 Familiar, the, is the object of intellect, 163, 164, 199, 270 Faraday, 203 Fasting, in reference to primacy of nervous system over the other physiological systems, 124 Fauna, menace of torpor in primitive, 130 Feeling in the conception of chance, 207 and instinct, 143, 174-5 Fencing-master, illustrating hereditary transmission, 79 Ferments, certain characteristics of, 106 Fertilization of orchids by insects, by Darwin, 170 _note_ Fichte's conception of the intellect, 189-90, 357 Filings, iron, in illustration of the relation of structure to function, 94, 95 Film, cinematographic, figure of abstract motion, 304-6 Final cause, 40, 45, 234, 325 conception of, involves conception of mechanical cause, 44 God as, in Aristotle, 322-3 Fischel, 75 _note_ Fish in illustration of animal tendency to mobility, 130, 131 Fixity, 108-13, 118, 119, 130, 155. _See_ Torpor apparent or relative, 155 cellulose envelope and the, of plants, 108, 111, 130 of extension, 155 of plants, 108-13, 118, 119, 130-1 of torpid animals, 130 Flint hatchets and human intelligence, 137 Fluidity of life, 153, 165, 193 of matter as a whole, 186, 369 Flux of material bodies, 265 of reality, 250, 251, 337, 342, 344 Flying arrow of Zeno, 308, 309, 310 Focalization of personality, 201 Foraminifera, failure of certain, to evolve, 197 Forel, 176 _note_