the art of creation essays on the self and its powers

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Related Motion seems to be, as suggested by the words Attraction and Repulsion, Gravitation, Chemical Affinity, and so forth, the ground-fact of inorganic Nature. And it seems also to be the ground and foundation of Life. The protoplasmic jelly moves towards or away from substances in its neighborhood, and this appears to be its fundamental property. The most primitive cellular organisms act in the same way. Some seek light, others flee from it. Paramecium is drawn towards slightly acid substances, and flies from alkalies. Actynophrys is attracted by starch; and so on.1 There appears to be a kind of ' choice' or elective affinity; and the learned are divided on the subject into two schools-those who, like Binet, see in these movements of protozoa the germinal characteristics of human intelligence, and those who class them as " merely chemical" and automatic reactions.Table of Contents Preface vii; I Preliminary i; II The Art of Creation io; III Matter and Consciousness , , , -35; Note on Matter 45; IV The Three Stages of Consciousness 54 V The Self and its Affiliations 71; VI The Self and its Affiliations (continued) 92; Note on the Great Sympathetic 113 VII Platonic Ideas and Heredity 118 VIII The Gods as Apparitions of the Race-Life 135 IX The Gods as Dwelling in the Physiological; Centres 154; X The Devils and the Idols 174; XI Beauty and Duty192; XII Creation , 208; XIII, Transformation 223; APPENDIX; 1 The May-Fly: a Study in Transformation 237; 2 Health a Conquest 255; 3 Evening in Spring ; a Meditation 263About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to
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