Science and the modern world

The numbers refer to pages; and ‘e.s.’ stands for ‘et seqq.’, where the reference is to the succeeding pages of the chapter in question.

• Abruptness (in Ingression), 239.
• Absolute, The, 129.
• Abstract, 221.
• Abstraction, 233, e.s.
• Abstraction (in Mathematics), 28, e.s.
• Abstractive Hierarchy, 234, e.s.
• Acceleration, 66.
• Actualisation, 222.
• Adam Smith, 280.
• Aeschylus, 14.
• Alexander, S., preface.
• Algebra, 42, 44.
• Alva, 2.
• Ampère, 139.
• Analytical Character (Eternal Objects), 228.
• Anselm, St., 80.
• ‘Any,’ 229.
• Aquinas, Thomas, 12, 13, 205.
• Arabic Arithmetical Notation, 42.
• Archimedes, 7, 8, 9, 10.
• Arguments (of functions), 44.
• Aristotle, 7, e.s.; 41, 42; 64, e.s.; 180, 187; 236, e.s.
• Arnold, Matthew, 115.
• Art, 279, e.s.
• Art, Medieval, 18, e.s.
• Aspect, 98; 146, e.s.
• Associated Hierarchy, 237.
• Aston, F. W., 260.
• Atom, 140, 144.
• Augustine, Saint, 266.

• Bacon, Francis, 11; 56, e.s.; 92, 136.
• Bacon, Roger, 7.
• Base of Abstractive Hierarchy, 235.
• Being, 227.
• Belisarius, 19.
• Benedict, Saint, 21.
• Bergson, 72; 202, e.s.
• Berkeley, George, 93, e.s.; 105, 120, 198.
• Bichât, 141.
• Biology, 58, 88, 144.
• Bonaventure, Saint, 12.
• Boyle, Robert, 57.
• Brown University, Preface.
• Bruno, Giordano, 1.
• Byzantine Empire, 19.

• Carlyle, 85.
• Cervantes, 56.
• Change, 121.
• Chaucer, 22.
• China, 8, 106.
• Clairaut, 85, 193.
• Classification, 41, e.s.
• Clough, A. H., 115.
• Cognition, 97.
• Coleridge, 115, 116.
• Columbus, 22, 49.
• Complex Eternal Objects, 232.
• Components, 232.
• Conic Sections, 42.
• Connexity (of a Hierarchy), 235.
• Connectedness (of an occasion), 237.
• Conservation of Energy, 142, e.s.
• Continuity, 140.
• Copernicus, 1, 22, 56, 184.
• Cosmas, 254.
• Cromwell, Oliver, 23.

• D’Alembert, 80, 85.
• Dalton, John, 140, 141.
• Da Vinci, Leonardo, 60.
• Darwin, 263.
• Democritus, 140.
• Demos, R., Preface.
• Density, 70, 189.
• Desargues, 78.
• Descartes, 25; 43, e.s.; 56, 57; 104; 115; 195, e.s.; 272.
• Determinism, 110.
• Differential Calculus, 78.
• Discontinuous Existence, 51; 190, e.s.
• Distance, 173.
• Divinity, Scholastic, 17.
• Divisibility, 177.

• Education, 277, e.s.
• Egyptians, 20, 43.
• Einstein, 14, 41, 86, 88; 173, e.s.; 263.
• Electron, 50, e.s.; 111, e.s.; 185, e.s.
• Empty Events, 214.
• Endurance, 121; 147, e.s.; 169, e.s.; 186, e.s.; 212.
• Endurance, Vibratory, 51.
• Energy, Physical, 51, e.s.
• Environment, 155, e.s.
• Envisagement, 148, e.s.
• Epochs, 177.
• Epochal Durations, 192.
• Essence, 175.
• Eternal Objects, 121, e.s.; 146, e.s.; 221, e.s.
• Ether, 184.
• Euripides, 14.
• Event, 102; 168, e.s.
• Evolution, 130; 142, e.s.
• Exhaustion, Method of, 42.
• Extension, 177.
• Extensive Quantity, 178.
• External Relations, 223, e.s.
• Extrinsic Reality, 146.

• Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness, 72, e.s.; 82.
• Faraday, 139.
• Fate, 14.
• Fermat, 78.
• Finite Abstractive Hierarchy, 235.
• Form, 230.
• Force, 64, e.s.
• Fourier, 85.
• Francis of Assisi, 258.
• Frederick, the Great, 89.
• Frequency, 181, e.s.
• Fresnel, 139.
• Frost, Robert, 22.
• Future, 245, e.s.

• Galileo, 2, e.s.; 43, 45; 56, e.s.; 88, 162, 187; 255, e.s.
• Galvani, 88.
• Gauss, 86, 88.
• Geometry, 31, e.s.
• George II, 93.
• Germany, 57.
• Gibson, 206.
• God, 17, 86, 129; 242, e.s.
• Gradation of Envisagement, 247.
• Gravitation, 65, 172.
• Greece, 8, e.s.
• Gregorovius, 265.
• Giotto, 22.
• Gregory, The Great, 21, 265.

• Harvey, 56, 57.
• Heath, Sir T. L., 180.
• Hegel, 40.
• Herz, 86, 88.
• Historical Revolt, 11, e.s.; 55, 150.
• Hooker, Richard, 13.
• Hume, 5, 47, 61, 73; 80, e.s.; 107, 198.
• Huyghens, 45; 57, e.s.; 256.

• Idealism, 89; 127, e.s.
• Immediate Occasion, 36, e.s.; 62.
• Individual Essence, 222, e.s.
• Induction, 34; 60, e.s.
• Infinite Abstractive Hierarchy, 235.
• Ingression, 99, e.s.; 222.
• Integral Calculus, 42.
• Internal Relations, 175; 223, e.s.
• Intrinsic Reality, 146.
• Invention, 136, e.s.
• Ionian Philosophers, 9.
• Irresistible Grace, 105.
• Isolated Systems, 66.
• Isolation of Eternal Objects, 230.
• Isotopes, 260.
• Italy, 57.

• James, Henry, 3.
• James, William, 3; 199, e.s.
• Joseph, Hapsburgh Emperor, 89.
• Justinian, 19, 20.

• Kant, 47; 93, e.s.; 116, 142, 178; 193, e.s.
• Kepler, 9, 45, 57, 67.

• Lagrange, 84, e.s.
• Laplace, 85, 142.
• Lavoisier, 84, 146.
• Law, Roman, 16.
• Laws of Nature, 45, 150.
• Least Action, 87, 150.
• Lecky, 15, 16, 254.
• Leibniz, 43, 44, 48, 57, 92, 115; 198, e.s.
• Life, 58.
• Limitation, 225, e.s.
• Lloyd Morgan, Preface.
• Location, Simple, 69, e.s.; 81, e.s.; 95.
• Locke, John, 43, 47; 57, e.s.; 89, 94, 115, 198.
• Locomotion, Vibratory, 184, e.s.
• Logic, Abstract, 37, e.s.
• Logic, Scholastic, 17.
• Lucretius, 140.

• Macaulay, 285.
• Milton, 108, e.s.
• Mind, 79.
• Mass, 64, e.s.; 144.
• Mathematics, 10, 23; 28, e.s.
• Mathematics, Applied, 34, e.s.
• Matter, 24, 94, 58, 144.
• Matter (philosophical), 231.
• Maupertuis, 85, e.s.
• Max Müller, 178.
• Maxwell, Clerk, 85, e.s.; 139, e.s.; 161.
• Mechanical Explanation, 23.
• Mechanism, 107, e.s.
• Mechanistic Theory, 71.
• Memory, 73.
• Mersenne, 46.
• Michelson, 162, e.s.
• Mill, John Stuart, 110.
• Modal Character of Space, 90, e.s.
• Modal Limitation, 248, e.s.
• Mode, 99.
• Moral Responsibility, 109, e.s.
• Motion, Laws of, 65, e.s.
• Müller, Johannes, 141.

• Narses, 19.
• Natural Selection, 158.
• Naturalism in Art, 22.
• Newman, John Henry, 115, 255.
• Newton, 8, 9, 15; 43, e.s.; 58, e.s.; 84, e.s.; 161; 255, e.s.
• Not-Being, 227.

• Objectivism, 124, e.s.
• Occasions, Community of, 63.
• Occupied Events, 215.
• Oersted, 139.
• Order of Nature, 5, e.s.; 39, e.s.; 55.
• Organic Mechanism, 112, 151.
• Organism, 51, e.s.; 58, 90; 105, e.s.; 111, e.s.; 145; 185, e.s.; 209.

• Padua, University of, 57, 58.
• Paley, 107.
• Papacy, 13, 20.
• Pascal, 57, 78.
• Past, 245, e.s.
• Pasteur, Louis, 141, e.s.
• Pelagius, 266.
• Perception, 101.
• Periodic Law (Mendeleëf), 141.
• Periodicity, 45, e.s.
• Perspective, 98.
• Petavius, 255.
• Philosophy, 122.
• Physical Field, 138.
• Physics, 57.
• Plato, 10; 41, e.s.; 180.
• Pope, Alexander, 108, e.s.
• Possibility, 223.
• Prehension, 97, e.s.; 207.
• Prehensive Character of Space, 90, e.s.
• Present, 245, e.s.
• Primary Qualities, 76.
• Primate, 185, e.s.
• Prime Mover, 242, e.s.
• Primordial Element, 51, e.s.
• Process, 102.
• Professionalism, 271, e.s.
• Proton, 51, e.s.; 185, e.s.
• Psychology, 88, 103.
• Pusey, 115.
• Pythagoras, 39, e.s.; 240.

• Quality, 73, e.s.
• Quantum Theory, 50; 181, e.s.

• Rationalism, 12, e.s.; 55.
• Ramsay, Sir William, 259.
• Rawley, Dr., 58.
• Rayleigh, Lord, 259.
• Realism, 127, e.s.
• Reformation, 11.
• Reiteration, 147; 186, e.s.
• Relational Essence, 223, e.s.
• Relativity, 68; 165, e.s.
• Retention, 147.
• Riemann, 86, 88.
• Romans, 8.
• Roman Law, 20.
• Rome, 21.
• Rousseau, 50, 93, 135.
• Royal Society, 43, 73.
• Russell, Bertrand, 216.

• Sarpi, Paul, 12, 26.
• Schleiden, 141.
• Schwann, 141.
• Scientific Materialism, 24, 25.
• Scientific Movement, 11.
• Secondary Qualities, 76, 127.
• Seneca, 15.
• Sense-Object, 99.
• Separative Character of Space, 90, e.s.
• Shakespeare, 56.
• Shape, 92.
• Shelley, 116, e.s.
• Sidgwick, Henry, 197.
• Simple Eternal Objects, 232.
• Simple Location, 69, e.s.; 81, e.s.; 95; 127, e.s.; 217.
• Simultaneity, 174.
• ‘Some,’ 229.
• Southey, 285.
• Space, Physical, 32.
• Spatialisation, 72, 175, 206.
• Specious Present, 148.
• Spinoza, 43, 57, 99, 115, 116, 175, 198, 248.
• Sophocles, 14.
• Standpoint, 99, e.s.
• Stoicism, 16.
• Struggle for Existence, 158.
• Subjectivism, 123, e.s.
• Substance, 73, e.s.; 175.
• Substantial Activity, 152, 174, 231.
• Superject, 230.
• Synthetic Prehension, 224, e.s.

• Technology, 135, e.s.
• Temporalisation, 179.
• Tennyson, 108, e.s.
• Time, 169, e.s.
• Tragedy, 15.
• Translucency of Realisation, 240.
• Trent, Council of, 12.
• Trigonometry, 42.
• True Propositions, 224.

• Unknowns (in Mathematics), 44.
• Universals, 221.
• Untrue Propositions, 221.

• Value, 123, e.s.; 226, 249.
• Variable, The, 37, e.s.; 229.
• Vasco da Gama, 22.
• Velocity, 64, e.s.; 165, e.s.
• Vertex of Abstractive Hierarchy, 236.
• Vesalius, 1.
• Vibration, 186, e.s.
• Vibratory Organic Deformation, 184, e.s.
• Virtual Work, 88.
• Vitalism, 111, e.s.; 145.
• Volta, 88.
• Voltaire, 57; 80, e.s.; 143.

• Walpole, 89.
• Washington, George, 89.
• Watt, James, 135.
• Wesley, John, 93.
• Whitman, Walt, 22.
• Wordsworth, 22; 108, e.s.

• Young, Thomas, 139.

• Zeno, 178, 179, 192.