Spencer, Herbert, 218, 240;
  quoted, 15, 16;
  on the origin of life, 26;
  on vital capital, 34, 35.

Spirit, common view of, 274, 275.

Spirituality, evolution of, 284.

Sugar, grape, 208.

Sunflower, wild, force exerted by, 19.

Thomson, J. Arthur, 270.

Thomson, Sir J. J., on electrons, 197;
  photographing atoms, 199, 200.

Tropisms, 11.

Tyndall, John, his view of life, 28-30, 160, 162, 231;
  his “molecular force,” 42, 133;
  his Belfast Address, 64, 219;
  and the “miracle of vitality,” 105;
  on energy, 161;
  on growth from the germ, 217;
  an idealist, 219, 220;
  on Goethe, 221;
  on matter, 260;
  on crystallisation of salt, 276, 277;
  on incipient life in inorganic nature, 277.

Universe, the, oneness of, 267, 268;
  a view of, 289.

Uranium, 67.

Verworn, Max, 25, 79, 146;
  his view of life, 30, 31, 73;
  his term for vital force, 145.

Vital force, constructive, 7, 38;
  inventive and creative, 7;
  resisting repose, 40;
  as a postulate, 99-103;
  its existence denied by science, 133;
  convenience of the term, 144;
  other names, 144-146.
  See also Life.

Vitalism, making headway, 32;
  reason for, 71, 72;
  Moore’s scientific vitalism, 106-112;
  type of mind believing in, 218-223.
  See also Life.

Vitality, the question of its reality, 140-143;
  degrees of, 241, 242.
  See also Life.

War of 1914, 248-251.

Water-power, and electricity, 67, 68.

Weismann, August, 217.

Whitman, Walt, quoted, 14, 48, 110, 256, 260.

Wilson, Edmund Beecher, on the cell, 95.

[Transcriber’s Notes: 

1.  The phrase ‘To resolve the pyschic and the vital’ was changed to ’To resolve the psychic and the vital’.]