Abstract
By means of a three-part grouping of 16 chapters plus an Epilogue, the author formulates this book as a dialectical argumentation. He identified a "thesis" that mechanism is triumphant because "scientific knowledge has rendered materialism almost a certainty", (Part I), then an "antithesis" about those advances in knowledge which go against a purely materialistic interpretation of life (Part II), all of which leads "Towards A New Synthesis" (Part III).