iquids, molecular behavior, 200.

Living thing, not a machine, 1-3, 212-214;
viewed as a machine, 34-37, 224-228;
a unit, 215;
adaptation, 215, 216;
contrasted and compared with a machine, 241, 242.

Lodge, Sir Oliver, 183, 197;
his view of life, 17, 18, 34, 132, 161, 219, 237;
his vein of mysticism, 34;
on the ether, 62, 63, 66;
on molecular spaces, 65;
on radium, 201;
on the atom, 203;
on electrons, 203.

Loeb, Jacques, on mechanism, 10-13, 73;
his experiments, 74, 76, 79, 147;
on variations, 148.

Machines, Nature's and man's, 224-226;
contrasted and compared with living bodies, 241, 242.

Maeterlinck, Maurice, on the Spirit of the Hive, 82.

Man, evolution of, 246-251;
as the result of chance, 255;
as a part of the natural order, 258, 259;
his little day, 269.

Matter, as acted upon by life, 8, 9;
creative energy immanent in, 9;
change upon entry of life, 39;
constitution of, 43, 44, 46-48;
a state of the ether, 63;
changes in, 131, 133;
Emerson on, 188;
discrete, 196;
emanations detected by smell and taste, 198, 199;
a hole in the ether, 203;
origin of its properties, 204-206;
a higher conception of, 259-261;
common view of grossness of, 274, 275.

Maxwell, James Clerk, on the ether, 63;
on atoms, 198.

Mechanism, the scientific explanation of mind, 5;
and ethics, 12;
reaction against, 32;
definition, 72;
Prof. Henderson's view, 88, 89;
_vs._ vitalism, 212-243.
_See also_ Life.

Metaphysics, necessity of, 101.

Micellar strings, 217.

Microbalance, 60.

Mind, evolution of, 287, 288.
_See also_ Intelligence.

Molecules, spaces between, 65, 196;
speed, 192;
unchanging character, 205, 206.

Monera, 285.

Moore, Benjamin, a scientific vitalist, 106;
his "biotic energy," 106-113, 145, 146.

Morgan, Thomas Hunt, 148.

Motion, perpetual, 190, 191, 278;
mass and molecular, 269, 270.

Naegeli, Karl Wilhelm von, 217.

Nitrogen, 51.

Nonentities, 99, 100.

Odors, 198, 199.

Osmotic growths, 167, 168.

Oxygen, activities of, 51, 52, 59;
in the crust of the earth, 193;
chemical affinities, 193-195;
different forms of atoms, 200.

Parker, Theodore, on the universe, 280.

Parthenogenesis, artificial, 11, 74.

Pasteur, Louis, his "dissymmetric force," 22, 32.

Philosophy, supplements science, 94-96, 104, 109, 163, 164;
deals with fundamental problems, 242, 243;
contra