Part 20

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.