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§ 36. The Travelling Organs in Relation to Environment .<br />

§ 37. Kant's and Herbert Spencer's Views of Matter and Force .<br />

§§<br />

CONTENTS ix<br />

THE TRAVELLING ORGANS OF ANIMALS TO BE REGARDED AS ORIGINAL<br />

STRUCTURES<br />

CREATION A PROGRESSIVE WORK<br />

...<br />

PAGE<br />

221<br />

. . 223<br />

38-39. Scriptural Account of Creation—Geology as Bearing on Creation . 226-229<br />

§ 40. The Simple and Complex Plants and Animals necessary to Each Other .<br />

. . 231<br />

ORDER IN WHICH PLANTS AND ANIMALS APPEARED ON THE EARTH<br />

§ 41. Plants and Animals Improvable up to a Point . 233<br />

NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL SELECTION CONTRASTED AND CONSIDERED<br />

§ 42. Everything Controlled and under Supervision .<br />

§ 43. Plants and Animals subject to Disease . ...<br />

.<br />

THE UNIVERSE AS A WORKING SYSTEM<br />

235<br />

. 236<br />

§§ 44-48. Consideration of the Terms Irritabihty, Stimulation, Environment, and Instinct . 239-243<br />

Instinct and Intelligence ....<br />

...<br />

245<br />

§ 49. Effect of <strong>Cosmic</strong> Changes on Plants and Animals . 246<br />

§ 50. Ehythmic Movements in Plants and Animals are Repetitions of Rhythms occurring in External Nature .<br />

249<br />

Rhythms and Reflexes in Plants and Animals: their Nature and Uses 252<br />

§ 51. Muscular Movements Inherent, Spontaneous, and Independent—Not caused by Nerve Action . . 253<br />

§ 52. Nerve Reflexes in Animals—Definitions of Reflex Acts—Subjects Connected with Reflex Manifesta-<br />

tions, &c. 258<br />

§ 53. Rhythmic Muscles—Rhythms not Confined to Involuntary Muscles 269<br />

§ 54. Respiratory Rhythmic Movements in Animals—New Explanation of these Movements 272<br />

§ 55. The Respiratory Organs in Animals and in Man Structurally Considered . . 274<br />

§ 56. The Respiratory Movements, especially in Man—New View of the Mechanism of Respiration—The Muscles<br />

of the Chest, Abdomen, and Diaphragm all Involved 277<br />

§ 57. The Mycetozoa .<br />

§ 58. Protoplasmic, Amoebic, Muscular, and other Movements .<br />

. 299<br />

. . 312<br />

§ 59. Muscular Action (Voluntary and Involuntary), as bearing on Locomotion, Respiration, Circulation, Ahmen-<br />

tation. Urination, Defecation, and Parturition ... .<br />

.<br />

. 327<br />

RUDIMENTARY FORMS IN RELATION TO MOVEMENT, REPRODUCTION, AND LIFE<br />

§§ 60-65. Movements, &c., of the Amceba, Paramecium,<br />

...<br />

Gromia, Mycetozoa, Zooid, Monad, Vorticella, &c. 332-340<br />

§ 66. Animals specially constructed as Air-breathers, and Water-breathers, and for Land, Water, and Air<br />

Transit . 342<br />

§ 67. A Creator, Designer, and Upholder necessary to the Universe as we know it . . 347<br />

VOL. I.<br />

b

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