Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative; Vol. 2 of 3 Library Edition (1891), Containing Seven Essays not before Republished, and Various other Additions.

(He says in explanation that ‘ONTOLOGY teaches us the phenomena of matter. The first of these are the heavenly bodies comprehended by _Cosmogeny_. These divide into elements.—_Stöchiogeny._ The earth element divides into minerals—_Mineralogy_. These unite into one collective b...

Chapters

3. Part III. BIOLOGY.—_Organosophy_, _Phytogeny_,

A glance over this confused scheme shows that it is an attempt to classify knowledge, not after the order in which it has been, or may be, built up in the human consciousness; b...

23. PART III.—THE DOMESTIC RELATIONS.

1. Ceremony in General. 2. Trophies. 3. Mutilations. 4. Presents. 5. Visits. 6. Obeisances. 7. Forms of Address. 8. Titles. 9. Badges and Costumes. 10. Further Class-Distinction...

24. Volume III (1904) is (ca 2016 October) in preparation at Project

Original spelling and grammar are generally retained, with a few exceptions noted below. Original italics _look like this_. Footnotes were renumbered 1–60, changed to endnotes,...

21. PART I.—THE DATA OF SOCIOLOGY.

17. PART VI.—SPECIAL ANALYSIS.

5. PART II.—THE KNOWABLE.

1. Philosophy Defined 2. The Data of Philosophy. 3. Space, Time, Matter, Motion, and Force. 4. The Indestructibility of Matter. 5. The Continuity of Motion. 6. The Persistence o...

11. PART VI.—LAWS OF MULTIPLICATION.

9. PART IV.—MORPHOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT.

1. The Problems of Morphology. 2. The Morphological Composition of Plants. 3. The Morphological Composition of Plants, continued. 4. The Morphological Composition of Animals. 5....

18. PART VII.—GENERAL ANALYSIS.

1. The Final Question. 2. The Assumption of Metaphysicians. 3. The Words of Metaphysicians. 4. The Reasonings of Metaphysicians. 5. Negative Justification of Realism. 6. Argumen...

2. Part II. ONTOLOGY.—_Cosmogeny_: Rest, Centre, Motion, Line,

(He says in explanation that ‘ONTOLOGY teaches us the phenomena of matter. The first of these are the heavenly bodies comprehended by _Cosmogeny_. These divide into elements.—_S...

8. PART III.—THE EVOLUTION OF LIFE.

1. Preliminary. 2. General Aspects of the Special-Creation-Hypothesis. 3. General Aspects of the Evolution-Hypothesis. 4. The Arguments from Classification. 5. The Arguments fro...

10. PART V.—PHYSIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT.

14. PART III.—GENERAL SYNTHESIS.

1. Life and Mind as Correspondence. 2. The Correspondence as Direct and Homogeneous. 3. The Correspondence as Direct but Heterogeneous. 4. The Correspondence as extending in Spa...

16. PART V.—PHYSICAL SYNTHESIS.

1. A Further Interpretation Needed. 2. The Genesis of Nerves. 3. The Genesis of Simple Nervous Systems. 4. The Genesis of Compound Nervous Systems. 5. The Genesis of Doubly-Comp...

13. PART II.—THE INDUCTIONS OF PSYCHOLOGY.

1. The Substance of Mind. 2. The Composition of Mind. 3. The Relativity of Feelings. 4. The Relativity of Relations between Feelings. 5. The Revivability of Feelings. 6. The Rev...

6. PART I.—THE DATA OF BIOLOGY.

1. Organic Matter. 2. The Actions of Forces on Organic Matter. 3. The Re-actions of Organic Matter on Forces. 4. Proximate Definition of Life. 5. The Correspondence between Life...

22. PART II.—THE INDUCTIONS OF SOCIOLOGY.

1. What is a Society? 2. A Society is an Organism. 3. Social Growth. 4. Social Structures. 5. Social Functions. 6. Systems of Organs. 7. The Sustaining System. 8. The Distributi...

20. PART IX.—COROLLARIES.

1. Special Psychology. 2. Classification. 3. Development of Conceptions. 4. Language of the Emotions. 5. Sociality and Sympathy. 6. Egoistic Sentiments. 7. Ego-Altruistic Sentim...

1. Part I. MATHESIS.—_Pneumatogeny_: Primary Act, Primary

12. PART I.—THE DATA OF PSYCHOLOGY.

1. The Nervous System. 2. The Structure of the Nervous System. 3. The Functions of the Nervous System. 4. The Conditions essential to Nervous Action. 5. Nervous Stimulation and...

15. PART IV.—SPECIAL SYNTHESIS.

1. The Nature of Intelligence. 2. The Law of Intelligence. 3. The Growth of Intelligence. 4. Reflex Action. 5. Instinct. 6. Memory. 7. Reason. 8. The Feelings. 9. The Will.

7. PART II.—THE INDUCTIONS OF BIOLOGY.

19. PART VIII.—CONGRUITIES.

4. PART I.—THE UNKNOWABLE.