CREATIVE EVOLUTION, Vol. 1

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER I
THE EVOLUTION OF LIFE-MECHANISM AND TELEOLOGY

Of duration in general-Unorganized bodies and abstract
time-Organized bodies and real duration-Individuality and
the process of growing old

Of transformism and the different ways of interpreting it-Radical
mechanism and real duration: the relation of biology to
physics and chemistry-Radical finalism and real duration:
the relation of biology to philosophy

The quest of a criterion-Examination of the various theories
with regard to a particular example-Darwin and insensible
variation-De Vries and sudden variation-Eimer and
orthogenesis-Neo-Lamarckism and the hereditability of
acquired characters

Result of the inquiry-The _vital impetus_

CHAPTER II
THE DIVERGENT DIRECTIONS OF THE EVOLUTION OF
LIFE-TORPOR, INTELLIGENCE, INSTINCT

General idea of the evolutionary process-Growth-Divergent
and complementary tendencies-The meaning of progress and of
adaptation

The relation of the animal to the plant-General tendency of
animal life-The development of animal life

The main directions of the evolution of life: torpor, intelligence,
instinct

The nature of the intellect

The nature of instinct

Life and consciousness-The apparent place of man in nature