INDEX

• Absolute organism, the, 187.
• Achilles, 14.
• Activity, incitement to, 154.
• Adaptation, 149.
• Affinity, 97.
• Agni, the elementary, 24.
• Annihilation contrary to nature, 1, 168.
• Army organization, 159f.
• Art and organic matter, 107, 111, 119f.
• Ask and Embla, 21.
• Athens, 9.
• Bacteria, 57.
• Belief in future life, 2.
• Biology and the spiritual body, 192.
• Björklund, Johan Gustaf, VII.
• Body, importance of the, 18.
• Boström, Christofer Jacob, 174, 194.
• Burial ceremonies, 9, 20.
• Büchner, 48f, 56, 62, 69, 73, 75, 83.
• Causality, 118, 119.
• Cause, sufficient, 117.
• Cells, living units, 27, 29;
• man, a community of, 30;
• a system of, 142.
• Chemical reactions, 76, 82.
• Chinese civilization, 10;
• death-cultus, 11.
• Chlorophyll, 115.
• Christianity, 16, 20.
• Church burial, 16.
• Circulation, blood, 78.
• Civilization, antiquity of Chinese, 10.
• Cohesion, 97.
• Conscience, 44.
• Consciousness, 45.
• Combustion, 92, 94ff.
• Communism, cell, 159.
• Coöperation, innermost, 161.
• Corporeal existence, soul’s craving for, 15.
• Cosmic catastrophe, a, 103.
• Creation, orthodox theory of, 67, 173.
• Cremation, 21, 24.
• Customs, grave, 13.
• Coulanges, Fustel de, 7, 10.
• Cytology, 28, 29, 177, 193.
• Darwin’s theory, 62.
• Death, and dissolution, 1;
• in mid-ocean, 12.
• Death-cultus, 11, 49, 189, 192.
• Decay, 105, 116.
• Deity, 176.
• Dextrose, 82.
• “Division of labor,” organic, 141.
• Dogma, 16, 51.
• Doomsday, 191.
• Dove, 128.
• Dualism, ecclesiastical, 21, 88.
• Dusch, von, 57.
• Duty of matrimony in China, 12.
• Dying and renewal, process of, 125.
• Earth, history of our, 100.
• Ego, perceived as relation, the, 162f.
• Elysian fields, 15.
• Energy of a living being, the, 72.
• Entity, the soul’s, 164;
• man’s, 169;
• the divine, 185.
• Equivalents of energy, 89.
• Eskimo, the, 13.
• Eternal, the, 181, 185f.
• Eternity, 183.
• Ether, 89.
• Evolution, 17, 26.
• Existence beyond the grave, 37.
• Experience, daily, 77.
• Faith, founded on probability, 37.
• Fear, effect of, 131.
• Fechner, Gustav, V.
• Flourens, 129.
• Folk-lore, IV.
• Food, 156.
• Forces, inorganic, 74;
• as qualities, 76;
• and resistance, 87.
• Forms of energy, 88.
• Foundation fact, Björklund’s, XII.
• Fries, S. A. D. D., VII.
• Fuel, organic, 93.
• Function, bodily, 48.
• Funeral ceremonies, 7.
• Furnace heat and the sun, 109.
• Future life, modern attitude toward, 4.
• Geology, 62, 69.
• Ghosts, 25.
• God, image of, 22;
• presence of, in logical laws, 180.
• Granfelt, 19.
• Grave, communications from the, 7;
• in China, 12.
• Grew, 28.
• Harvey’s formula, 55f, 58, 62ff, 67, 122.
• Heat, equivalents of, 98f.
• Historical process, the, 46, 70, 188f.
• Hierologists, Germanic, 22.
• Hoffman, 58.
• Höner, 22.
• Humanity, a higher organism, 126;
• the link between God and man, 177.
• Hunger, 156.
• Hydrates of carbon, 82.
• Idea, man, God’s eternal, 174.
• Idealism, 18, 194.
• Image of God, the soul an, 172f, 179.
• Immaterial experience, 45, 50.
• Immortality, instinctive, 1, 2;
• of the cell, 124.
• Incentives, 119.
• Indestructibility of matter and energy, 170.
• Indian tribes, 13.
• Industry, a common need of, 145.
• Inertia, 111.
• Instinct, faith and, 4, 6;
• social, 144.
• Intellect, mechanical equivalent of, 90.
• Intelligence and the soul, 132.
• Intuition, 26, 44, 173f.
• Islam, 15.
• Judaism, 15.
• Jungle of materialism, the, XV.
• Key, Ellen, VIII.
• Laboratory results, 83, 84.
• Language, cell, 164.
• Lavoisier, 72.
• Life-force, so-called, 71, 73, 121.
• Life, supernatural origin of, 123.
• Logical laws the form in which God exists, 180.
• Limitations, man’s, 178.
• Lodur, 21.
• Machine, the living, 79, 139.
• Malpighi, 28.
• Man, a social organism of cells, 32;
• responsibility of, 198.
• Material, organic, 112f.
• Materialism, 19, 49, 85.
• Matrimony in China, 11.
• Matter, 47, 68, 88, 96, 118.
• Mechanical toy, man not a, XIV.
• Mechanism of the organism, 138.
• Memory, 146.
• Metamorphosis, 40.
• Micro-organic world, the, 58.
• Mid-ocean, death in, 12.
• Microscope, the, 28, 155.
• Mirbel, Brisseau de, 29.
• Mind, time-bound and space-bound, XIV.
• Moldenhaver, 29.
• Molecules, 96.
• “Moss-clad fragment,” the, 65.
• Motility, mechanical, 79.
• Mutability, 91.
• Mythology, Germanic, 21.
• Nations as organisms, 31.
• Natural science, 48, 191.
• Nirvana, XIV.
• Nobel prize, the, X.
• Negroes, immortality ideas among, 12.
• Nordenskold, 13.
• Norse sagas, 15.
• Odin, 22.
• Omne vivum ex vivo, 59.
• Organic structure, 33, 83, 84.
• Origin of life, the, 70.
• Oxygen, 102.
• Pacific Ocean, 10.
• Parasites, 54.
• Parseeism, 15.
• Pasteur, 58.
• Permanence, law of, 89, 91.
• Personal existence after death, 6.
• Philosophy of science, the, 73.
• Polar regions, 10.
• Pre-existence, 171.
• Prehistoric beliefs, 4, 188.
• Present, the eternally, 182.
• Presentiment, 2.
• Priestley, 72.
• Primitive ideas of immortality, 10.
• Principles of life and physical force, 90, 91, 121.
• Propagation, 54, 55, 61.
• Providence, 133, 197.
• Psychical Research, society for, III.
• Psychologic order of evolution, 5.
• Purpose, organic, 149.
• Pyre, the funeral, 190.
• Reasoning, headlong, 20.
• Re-birth, 40.
• Recapitulation, 188.
• Religious instincts, 17.
• Resurrection, 15f, 150, 166, 190.
• Rydberg, Victor, 21, 172.
• Sagas, 15.
• Samoyede grave, a, 13.
• Scheele, 72.
• Schröder, 57.
• Schultze, 57.
• Schwann, 57.
• Science and resurrection, 16, 20, 74.
• Scylla and Charybdis of science, the, XIV.
• Sin, 198.
• Skeptical attitude, modern, 3f.
• Society, human, 32, 143, 158.
• Solar system, the, 184.
• Sorcerers, 25.
• Soul, future life of the, 8, 14;
• physiologists and the, 127;
• functions of the, 130, 134;
• a spiritual principle, 151.
• Spallanzani, 57.
• Spiritual body, a, 19f, 22, 26, 34f, 190, 195;
• vision, 43;
• interaction, 152;
• beings, 175.
• Spontaneous generation, 51, 52, 59, 105, 122.
• Substance, living, 124;
• comprehending, 153.
• Sun, importance of the, 104.
• Supernatural forces, 45, 67.
• Steam engine, art and the, 108, 110.
• Swedish Peace Society, X.
• Teleological causality, 118.
• Telepathy, III.
• Thomson, Sir William, 63.
• Time, a form of existence, 181.
• Tissues, the, 142.
• Tomb, life in the, 7.
• Tool, the organism a, 135.
• Transcendental world, a, 42.
• Treviranus, 29.
• Units, organic, 151.
• Unity of the organism, 166f.
• Upsala, VII.
• Veda Aryans, 21, 23f.
• Virtue, 198.
• Vis inertia, 110f.
• Vitalistic doctrine, 72.
• Will incentive, 119.
• Wöhler, 81.