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...speakers at the general sessions will include among other prominent philosophers, H. Driesch of Leipzig, A. A. Lovejoy of Baltimore, F. Enriques of Rome, W. E. Hocking of Harvard, J. Dewey of New York, G. Gentle of Rome, Dean Roscoe Pound of Cambridge, E. Gilson of Paris, H. O. Taylor of New York...
...becoming is a consequence", said Dr. Driesch. "Casuality is the conception of a becoming as a effect. If we say there is no cause, then life is causeless, which hypothesis we must reject. As there is a cause, and it is not mechanical, it must be non-mechanical or intellect...
...Autonomy of Life" was the subject of the lecture given yesterday afternoon in the Lecture Hall of the Fogg Art Museum by Dr. Hans Driesch of the University of Heidelberg, one of the best known contemporary German biologists. The lecturer approached his subject from a different viewpoint from that which his hearers expected, quite a few of them appearing unable to follow his meaning...
...Driesch proved that the basis of life was vitalistic by showing that the mechanistic doctrine of life is impossible. He described four experiments with egg cells which definitely contradicted the idea of a machine, in the sense of the specific pre-formed arrangement...
...processes of life are not mechanical," declared Dr. Driesch, "they must be nonmechanical. And the nonmechanical agent, which is neither metaphysical nor psychical, we name intellect...