, 248-9
of matter, 237, 239, 247-8, 249.
_See_ Materiality the inversion of spirituality
of present by past, 5, 20-3, 27, 167, 199-202
the vital order as, 230

Creative evolution, 7, 15, 21, 27, 29, 36, 37, 65, 100, 104-5, 161,
163, 223-4, 230-1, 237, 264, 269

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

Criticism, Kantian, 205, 287 _note_, 356, 360-2
of knowledge, 194-5

Cross-cuts through becoming by intellect, 314.
_See_ Views of reality
through matter by perception, 206

Cross-roads of vital tendency, 51, 52, 54, 110, 126

Crustacea, 19, 111, 129-30

Crystal illustrating (by contrast) individuation, 12

Cuenot, 79 _note_

Culminating points of evolutionary progress, 50, 133-5.
_See_ Evolutionary superiority

Current, 26, 27, 51, 185, 236, 237, 250, 266, 269

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_

Dantec (Le), 18 _note_, 34 _note_

Darwin, 62-5, 66, 72, 108, 170 _note_

Darwinism, 56, 85, 86

Dastre, 36 _note_

Dead, the, is the object of intellect, 165

Dead-locks in speculation, 155, 312

Death, 246 _note_, 271

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

_Degenerescence senile (La)_, by Metchnikoff, 18 _note_

Degradation of energy, 241, 242, 246
of the extra-spatial into the spatial, 207
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