ce consequently
retarded, and speculation rendered necessary.--Dissatisfaction with
mechanism partly natural, and partly artificial.--Biassed judgments
inspired by moral inertia.--Positive emotions proper to
materialism.--The material world not dead nor ugly, nor especially
cruel.--Mechanism to be judged by its fruits Pages 69-94

CHAPTER IV

HESITATIONS IN METHOD

Mechanism restricted to one-half of existence.--Men of science not
speculative.--Confusion in semi-moral subjects.--"Physic of metaphysic
begs defence."--Evolution by mechanism.--Evolution by ideal
attraction.--If species are evolved they cannot guide
evolution.--Intrusion of optimism.--Evolution according to Hegel.--The
conservative interpretation.--The radical one.--Megalomania.--Chaos in
the theory of mind.--Origin of self-consciousness.--The notion of
spirit.--The notion of sense.--Competition between the two.--The rise of
scepticism Pages 95-125

CHAPTER V

PSYCHOLOGY

Mind reading not science.--Experience a reconstruction.--The honest art
of education.--Arbitrary readings of the mind.--Human nature appealed to
rather than described.--Dialectic in psychology.--Spinoza on the
passions.--A principle of estimation cannot govern events.--Scientific
psychology a part of biology.--Confused attempt to detach the psychic
element.--Differentia of the psychic.--Approach to irrelevant
sentience.--Perception represents things in their practical relation to
the body.--Mind the existence in which form becomes actual.--Attempt at
idealistic physics.--Association not efficient.--- It describes
coincidences.--Understanding is based on instinct and expressed in
dialectic.--Suggestion a fancy name for automatism, and will
another.--Double attachment of mind to nature.--Is the subject-matter of
psychology absolute being?--Sentience is representable only in
fancy.--The conditions and objects of sentience, which are not
sentience, are also real.--Mind knowable and important in so far as it
represents other things Pages 126-166

CHAPTER VI

THE NATURE OF INTENT

Dialectic better than physics.--Maladjustments to nature render physics
conspicuous and unpleasant.--Physics should be largely virtual, and
dialectic explicit.--Intent is vital and indescribable.--It is analogous
to flux in existence.--It expresses natural life.--- It has a material
basis.--It is necessarily relevant to earth.--The basis of intent
becomes appreciable in language.--Intent starts from