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Space and time cannot be separated 17
Nor can space-time be separated from motion, 18
Theory of an expanding spatial universe 20
Evidence of intense internal activity in elementary units
of matter 		22
Evidence that energy occurs in units 23
Evidence that matter and energy are fundamentally in-
separable 		24
Inherent and co-ordinatcd activity in ultimate physical
units 		24
Cooling down its a gradual disappearance of primitive
chaos 		25
The narrowed gap between modern physics and biology 26
How existing physical science is related to philosophy. 27
In what sense is the physical universe real? 28
II. PHILOSOPHY AND BIOLOGY 29
Scant recognition of biology by philosophical and
scientific writers 		29
The place of biology in Kant's Critique of Judgment 29
His interpretation of the perceived phenomena of life as
physical phenomena 		30
Opposition by medical men and biologists to physical
interpretation of life 		31
The development of vitalism. 31
Prevalence of vitalism till the middle of last century 34
Abandonment of vitalism owing to its internal incon-
sistencics 		35
Theodor Schwann and cell-formation 36
J. R. Mayer and the sources of organic energy 37
The difficulties of a mechanistic are as great as those of
a vitalistic theory 		37
Recent returns to what is essentially vitalism 38
Their relations to ideas of Leibniz 39
Co-ordinated maintenance the characteristic feature of life 41

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Publication Information: Book Title: The Philosophy of a Biologist. Contributors: J. S. Haldane - author. Publisher: The Clarendon Press. Place of Publication: Oxford. Publication Year: 1935. Page Number: viii.
    
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