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At the beginning of this article I propose to use the word “ evolution “ as it is used in biology, to mean the formation of a number of vegetable or animal species out of a few comparatively simple types, and to exclude from its connotation any idea of perfection, purpose, value, and so on.
page 492 note 1 By the word “ element” I merely mean a part which is simpler than the whole.
page 493 note 1 Spencer, H., The Principles of Psychology, vol. i, § 208.Google Scholar
page 493 note 2 Ibid. vol. ii, § 472.
page 493 note 3 By “ categories “ I mean the ultimate metaphysical conditions of the existence of nature which are, at the same time, the conditions of its being knowable in and through intellectual intuition.
page 494 note 1 Critique of Pure Reason, translated by Müller, Max, p. 153.Google Scholar
page 495 note 1 The term “ concretely-ideal “ will be explained later.
page 497 note 1 I use the word “ creative “ not in the narrow sense of producing a perfectly new content different in kind from the already existing types of being and requiring a new term to express it; by “ creative “ I mean in this connection the agent's power of producing a new event which may be exactly similar to events it had produced before.
page 497 note 2 See Meyerson, Identity and Reality.
page 499 note 1 Aristotelian Proceedings, 1924, Suppl., vol. iv, p. 112.Google Scholar
page 499 note 2 The Analysis of Mind, pp. 209, 307.
page 501 note 1 Becher, E., Die Fremddienliche Zweckmassigkeit der Pflanzengallen und die Hypothese eines über individuellen Scelischen (Leipzic, 1917).Google Scholar
