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: they have come from his hands with his personal mark in many places. We cannot express all that the present work owes to him. ARTHUR MITCHELL HARVARD UNIVERSITY CONTENTS PAGE INTRODUCTION ix CHAPTER I THE EVOLUTION OF LIFE--MECHANISM AND TELEOLOGY Of duration in general--Unorganized bodies and abstract time--Organized bodies and real duration--Individuality and the process of growing old 1 Of transformism and the different ways of interpreting it--Radical mechanism and real duration: the relation of biology to physics and chemistry--Radical finalism and real duration: the relation of biology to philosophy 23 The quest of a criterion--Examination of the various theories with regard to a particular example--Darwin and insensible variation--De Vries and sudden variation--Eimer and orthogenesis--Neo-Lamarckism and the hereditability of acquired characters 59 Result of the inquiry--The _vital impetus_ 87 CHAPTER II THE DIVERGENT DIRECTIONS OF THE EVOLUTION OF LIFE--TORPOR, INTELLIGENCE, INSTINCT General idea of the evolutionary process--Growth--Divergent and complementary tendencies--The meaning of progress and of adaptation 98 The relation of the animal to the plant--General tendency of animal life--The development of animal life 105 The main directions of the evolution of life: torpor, intelligence, instinct 135 The nature of the intellect 151 The nature of instinct 165 Life and consciousness--The apparent place of man in nature 176 CHAPTER III ON THE MEANING OF LIFE--THE ORDER OF NATURE AND THE FORM OF INTELLIGENCE Relation of the problem of life to the problem of knowledge--The method of philosophy--Apparent vicious circle of the method proposed--Real vicious circle of the opposite method 186 Simultaneous genesis of matter and intelligence--Geometry inherent in matter--Geometrical tendency of
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