PROBLEM I. THE NATURE OF LIFE. CHAPTER I. THE PROBLEM STATED. CHAPTER II. DEFINITIONS OF LIFE. CHAPTER III. ORGANISM, ORGANIZATION, AND ORGANIC SUBSTANCE. CHAPTER IV. THE PROPERTIES AND FUNCTIONS. PROBLEM II. THE NERVOUS MECHANISM. CHAPTER I. SURVEY OF THE SYSTEM. CHAPTER II. THE FUNCTIONAL RELATIONS OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM. CHAPTER V. ACTION WITHOUT NERVE-CENTRES. CHAPTER VI. WHAT IS TAUGHT BY EMBRYOLOGY? CHAPTER VII. THE ELEMENTARY STRUCTURE OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM. CHAPTER VIII. THE LAWS OF NERVOUS ACTIVITY. PROBLEM III. ANIMAL AUTOMATISM. CHAPTER I. THE COURSE OF MODERN THOUGHT. CHAPTER II. THE VITAL MECHANISM. CHAPTER III. THE RELATION OF BODY AND MIND. CHAPTER IV. CONSCIOUSNESS AND UNCONSCIOUSNESS. 211 CHAPTER V. VOLUNTARY AND INVOLUNTARY ACTIONS. CHAPTER VI. THE PROBLEM STATED. CHAPTER VII. IS FEELING AN AGENT? PROBLEM IV. THE REFLEX THEORY. CHAPTER I. THE PROBLEM STATED. (2) CHAPTER II. DEDUCTIONS FROM GENERAL LAWS. CHAPTER III. INDUCTIONS FROM PARTICULAR OBSERVATIONS. CHAPTER IV. NEGATIVE INDUCTIONS. Transcriber’s Note Cover created by Transcriber, using an illustration from the original book, and placed in the Public Domain. Works by the same Author. PROBLEMS OF LIFE AND MIND. The Foundations of a Creed. Two Volumes. Octavo. Per volume, $3.00. Contents: The Method of Science and its Applications to Metaphysics—The Rules of Philosophizing—Psychological Principles—The Limitations of Knowledge—The Principles of Certitude—From the Known to the Unknown—Matter and Force—Force and Cause—The Absolute in the Correlations of Feeling and Motion. THE STORY OF GOETHE’S LIFE. New Edition. One volume. 16mo. With Portrait. $1.50. *** For sale by all Booksellers. Sent, post-paid, on receipt of price by the Publishers, HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO., BOSTON. THE |