The Fitness of the Environment; An Inquiry into the Biological Significance of the Properties of Matter... by Henderson, Lawrence Joseph, 1878-1942

NY, Macmillan, 1927 [c1913]. Hard Cover. xv, 317 p. incl. tables, diagr.; 20 cm. Title continues: "by Lawrence J. Henderson... In part delivered as lectures in the Lowell Institute, February, 1913." "He saw the properties of matter and the course of cosmic evolution intimately related to the structure of the living being and to its activities. He concluded: 'the whole evolutionary process, both cosmic and organic, is one, and the biologist may now rightly regard the universe in its very essence as biocentric.'" From the library of Prof. Vincent Tomas of the Brown University Department of Philosophy. Stock#102550. Vg / no dj.