CHAPTER III

THE WILL

Difficulties of definition--The Will and Consciousness--"Involuntary" action--Will in passivity--The concept of Choice--"Ends" and the Will--The Future and Will--The External and Will--Criticism of Barratt's axioms and propositions--Discussion of the relation of Thought and Feeling to Will--The argument of the Physiologist--The argument of the Evolutionist--The argument from social statistics--The argument from Psychiatry, Criminology, etc.--The argument from the psychological principles on which Evolutional Ethics is founded--Definition of Natural Law and Necessity--The positive factors of Evolution--The positive and active character of the organism as the result of evolution--The equivalence of Conditions and Results--The positive character of the organism as a part of Nature--The sense of Freedom as the sense of Activity--The theory of the Will as determined by Motives--As determined by Feeling--As determined by the desirability of the end or object--The argument of Concomitance and that of Sequence as used by both Materialist and Spiritualist--The endeavor to prove (1) the causal character of physiological process; (2) the causal character of Consciousness--Inconsistencies of these attempts 341-359