The unity of nature / by the Duke of Argyll.

  • George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll
Date:
1884
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Credit: The unity of nature / by the Duke of Argyll. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PAG K Nature—The Phenomena of Mind not confined to Man—Physical Forces in Nature—Contrast of a Work of Human Art and a Work of Nature—Arrowheads and Fossil Teeth—A Work of Beaver Art— Points of Contact of Works of Nature and Works of Art—Animals commissioned Servants of Nature—Man the Creature and Child of the Natural System—Unity between Structure and Function—Out- sidedness and Insidedness—Downwardness and Upwardness—Aspects of Relationship of Mind to Matter—The Seemingly Automatic— Chains of Physical Causation—The Intelligibility of Nature—Pur- pose and Intelligence—Deceptions of a Spurious Anthropomorphism —Mind Pre-supposed in Structure of the Brain—Constructive Agency outside the Apparatus—Abstract Conceptions in Interpretations of Nature. CHAPTER VI. On the Elementary Constitution of Matter in Rela- tion to the Inorganic 207-241 The Materialistic Philosophy of the Ancients—Atomism, Ancient and Modern—The Phenomena of Weight—The Force of Gravitation— Crudity of Old Materialism—The “Molecular Constitution”—Germ Development—The Atom of Modern Chemical Science—“Valency” of Atoms—Chemical Combinations—Affinity of Atoms—The Automatic Forces of Nature—Chemistry an Instrument of Purpose—Mysterious Forces and Laws of Chemical Affinity—Inorganic Combinations seemingly Accidental but really Systematic—Affinities of Oxygen— The Composition and Properties of Water—The Fulness of Life in the Ocean—Marine Organisms—Relations between the Organic and Inorganic—Chemistry and the Metals—Fundamental Principle under- lying Chemical Affinity—Subordination of Physical Causation. CHAPTER VII. The Elementary Constitution of Matter in Relation to the Organic 242-273 Organic Chemistry—Structure of the Living “Cell”—The Chemistry of the “ Proteids ” or “Hydro-Carbons”—“Building up” of Organic Compounds—Triumphs of the Laboratory—Structure of Crystals— “ Molecular Arrangements ”—The “ Interlocking of Atoms ”—Chemi- cal Combination essentially Dynamic—Inorganic Structures merely Chemical—Difference and Segregation in Organic Chemistry—Vege- table and Animal Tissues—The Unit of Organic Structure—The Cor- puscles of the Blood—Circulation of the Blood—Mysterious Processes of Crystallisation and of Organic Structure—The Science of Biology— \