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Change, its supposed unreality, 1; in modern science, 8-9; and law, 72; and thought, 133; of truth, 153; of experience, 222-224, 259-260;

Christianity, metaphysic of, 178

Cognitive, 84-85, 230-233

Conflict, and thinking, 116-117, 126-127, 132, 148-149

Consistency, as criterion, 128-136

Consciousness, as end of nature, 34-35; is partial, 43; and knowledge, 79-80, 102, 171; Essay X., 242-270; non-existence of, 247-248

Correspondence, 158

Cosmology, and morals, 54

Custom, as background of morals, 48, 52

Darwin, his influence on philosophy, Essay I., 1-19; quoted, 2, 12

Democracy, moral meaning of, 59-60, 266-267

Descartes, 8

Design, see Teleology

Economic Struggle, 21, 29, 35, 41, 50

Economics, influences on morals, 57-59

Empiricism, 200-202; Essay IX., 226-241, 289-291

Epistemology, versus logic, 95-107, 172, 185, 201, 296-298

Error, and becoming, 100

Evolution, of species, 1, 8; and design, 12-13; and teleology, 32-35; and intelligence, 42-43

Experience, Essay VII., 198-225

Experiment, and knowledge, Essay IV., 77-111

Feeling, 80-81

Final Cause, see Teleology

Functions, true data of psychology, 250-255

Galileo, 8

Genesis, and value, 261-264

Good, is concrete and plural, 15-17, 23, 27; of Nature, Essay II., 20-45; and evolution, 31-35, 43; and mysticism, 39, 42; Greek view of, 46-50; medieval view of, 52-54; as fixed, 67

Gordon, K., 215 n.

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