The Riddle of the Universe at the close of the nineteenth century

A Glance at the Progress of the Nineteenth Century in Solving Cosmic Problems--I. Progress of Astronomy and Cosmology--Physical and Chemical Unity of the Universe--Cosmic Metamo...

The Citadel of Superstition--Athanatism and Thanatism--Individual Character of Death--Immortality of the Unicellular Organisms (Protists)--Cosmic and Personal Immortality--Prima...

Psychological Unity of Organic Nature--Material Basis of the Soul: Psychoplasm--Scale of Sensation--Scale of Movement--Scale of Reflex Action--Simple and Compound Reflex Action-...

Increasing Opposition between Modern Science and Christian Theology--The Old and the New Faith--Defence of Rational Science against the Attacks of Christian Superstition, especi...

The Fundamental Chemical Law of the Constancy of Matter--The Fundamental Physical Law of the Conservation of Energy--Combination of Both Laws in the Law of Substance--The Kineti...

Gradual Historical Evolution of the Human Soul from the Animal Soul--Methods of Phylogenetic Psychology--Four Chief Stages in the Phylogeny of the Soul: I. The Cell-Soul (Cytops...

The Monism of the Cosmos--Essential Unity of Organic and Inorganic Nature--Carbon-Theory--The Hypothesis of Abiogenesis--Mechanical and Purposive Causes--Mechanicism and Teleolo...

The Notion of Creation--Miracles--Creation of the Whole Universe and of its Various Parts--Creation of Substance (Cosmological Creation)--Deism: One Creative Day--Creation of Se...

The Condition of Civilization and of Thought at the Close of the Nineteenth Century--Progress of Our Knowledge of Nature, of the Organic and Inorganic Sciences--The Law of Subst...

Fundamental Importance of Psychology--Its Definition and Methods--Divergence of Views Thereon--Dualistic and Monistic Psychology--Relation to the Law of Substance--Confusion of...

Monistic and Dualistic Ethics--Contradiction of Pure and Practical Reason in Kant--His Categorical Imperative--The Neo-Kantians--Herbert Spencer--Egoism and Altruism--Equivalenc...

The Older Embryology--The Theory of Preformation--The Theory of Scatulation: Haller and Leibnitz--The Theory of Epigenesis: C. F. Wolff--The Theory of Germinal Layers: Carl Erns...

Consciousness as a Natural Phenomenon--Its Definition--Difficulties of the Problem--Its Relation to the Life of the Soul--Our Human Consciousness--Various Theories: I. Anthropis...

The Idea of God in General--Antithesis of God and the World; the Supernatural and Nature--Theism and Pantheism--Chief Forms of Theism--Polytheism--Triplotheism--Amphitheism--Mon...

Origin of Man--Mythical History of Creation--Moses and Linné--The Creation of Permanent Species--The Catastrophic Theory: Cuvier--Transformism: Goethe--Theory of Descent: Lamarc...

Fundamental Importance of Anatomy--Human Anatomy--Hippocrates, Aristotle, Galen, Vesalius--Comparative Anatomy--Georges Cuvier--Johannes Müller--Karl Gegenbaur--Histology--The C...

Monism as a Connecting Link between Religion and Science--The _Cultur-Kampf_--The Relations of Church and State--Principles of the Monistic Religion--Its Three-fold Ideal: the G...

Importance of Ontogeny to Psychology--Development of the Child-Soul--Commencement of Existence of the Individual Soul--The Storing of the Soul--Mythology of the Origin of the So...

The Knowledge of the Truth and Its Sources: the Activity of the Senses and the Association of Presentations--Organs of Sense and Organs of Thought--Sense-Organs and their Specif...

Development of Physiology in Antiquity and the Middle Ages: Galen--Experiment and Vivisection--Discovery of the Circulation of the Blood by Harvey--Vitalism: Haller--Teleologica...

The present study of the monistic philosophy is intended for thoughtful readers of every condition who are united in an honest search for the truth. An intensification of this e...