Excerpt from The New Physiology and Other Addresses
The addresses collected in this volume refer to different aspects of one subject - the distinctive character of biological knowledge, and its relation to other departments of knowledge. Ideas on this subject, and on the connection of natural science in general with "humanistic" branches of knowledge, are at present, as it seems to me, changing rapidly, and in a direction which is only very imperfectly realised as yet. The scientific theories which dominated the world during the latter half of last century are undergoing profound modification, and the estrangement created by them between natural science and other branches of knowledge is tending to disappear. At the same time new lines of advance in natural science are opening out in all directions, and perhaps most strikingly in biology. For this latter reason I have adopted The New Physiology as a title for the book.
In these addresses the claims of biology to an independent position among the sciences are strongly maintained as against the current belief that biology is only applied physics and chemistry.
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