Лондон, 1925 год. Henry Holt and Company.
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In its main treatment this book broadly accords with our "Evolution" and "Sex" already published in this series; and also with its "Introduction to Science," which our Chapters V and VI indeed endeavour to continue.
This small book has thus arisen upon a large plan - that of broadly indicating the main aims and quests of biological thought, and of illustrating their fruitful results. Amid the embarrassing wealth and protean variety of living nature, and the complex webs of relations which are ever being disclosed throughout, we would fain express at once something of the keen and fruitful research-spirit of the biological sciences, and of the rigorous thinking which increasingly inspires them. For the bright and varied pageant of life is being increasingly seen as Bio-drama; and thus with unities to be discerned, as well as manifold and intricate interweavings of plot to be unravelled.
Hence too we seek for keys, admitting us to the ever-accumulating records of the progress of biologists towards understanding more and more of all these aspects of life - indeed even for such master-key to knowledge as they are finding to be increasingly needed to the treasuries of the other sciences. For these, despite their due distinctiveness, are not only life-created, but life-related, one and all. It is with this outlook that our introduction has been written, and its influence is plain in our treatment of such much-debated problems as mechanism and vitalism, automatism and behaviour. Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге Home university library of modern knowledge (P. Geddes)