Matter, life, mind : their essence, phenomena, and relations, examined with reference to the nature of man, and the problem of his destiny

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Chapter I. The Matter Or Stuff Wrought Into Organic Bodies

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1. The constitution of Matter 25

2. Our ignorance of the origin and essence of Matter 28

3. The kinds of Matter which compose Organic Bodies 33

4. The sway of Oxygen over other kinds of Matter 42

5. A Non-vital Globe, or the reign of mere Matter 45

6. The Sway of Life on Earth 46

7. The Achievements of Matter 48

8. The Forces and Scope of Matter Limited 52

9. Misgivings of Materialists 56

10. Materialism builds only upon Matter 58

11. Matter yields no signs of Vitality 59

1 2. Confession of Materialists 60

Chapter II. The Variety Of Vital Elements As The Basis Of

ORGANISMS.

1. Life Defined 63

2. Life a Reality, and not a Force 65

3. Facts Materialism fails to Explain 70

4. Different Grades of Life 73

5. The Permanency of Vital Elements 77

6. Mr. Darwin's Theism 84

7. The profound Secret of Life 87

8. A Created Vital World 89

Chapter III. Vital Phenomena Contrasted With Forces Of Matter

1. Matter and its Forces Unchangeable 92

2. Organic and Inorganic Matter the same 95

3. Matter cannot Exert Vital Force 98

4. Matter the Product of Infinite Wisdom 99

5. The Life of an Organism 100

6. The Mystery of Existence ' . 103

7. Vital Phenomena Contrasted with the Forces of Matter. ... 108

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8. The End for which Matter was Created HI

9. Mind not the Life of the Body 114.

10. The Law of Generation Limited to the Vital World 116

11. The Conservative Power of Life 119

Chapter IV. The Mind, As The Man, Identified In The Organism

1. The Significance of Persistent Terms 126

2. Mind fully in the field of Observation 128

3. The Reality of Substance 131

4. The Correlates of our Sense-organs 132

5. The Authority of Consciousness 135

6. Vicious Method of Study 140

7. The Fallacy of the Materialistic Argument 147

8. Further False Reasoning 151

9. To Know Man, the Mind itself must be Studied 154

10. The Sufficiency of our Argument 158

Chapter V. Mind Self-revealed In Its Faculties And Powers

1. Mind a self-centered Substance, and the Cause of Mental

Phenomena 161

2. Mind an Intelligence 167

3. Sensation a Means of Knowledge 170

4. Province of Reason 172

5. Relation of Sense and Reason 176

6. Triumphs of Intellect 178

7. Unconscious Mental Action 181

8. The Will 188

9. Emotion as a Part of the Mind 191

Chapter VI. Interaction Of Mind And Body

1. Mind and Body Two Substances 197

2. Unity and Harmony 198

3. Different Tendencies of Mind and Body 201

4. Demonstrative Facts 203

5. Miscellaneous Illustrations 207

Chapter VII. The Attempts Made To Frame A Definition Of Life

1. The Boldness of modern Philosophic Thought 223

2. The Stronghold of Materialism 226

3. Materialists not Content with their Argument 229

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4. Vital Writers have Failed to Help their Cause 232

5. Materialistic Attempts to frame a Definition of Life 235

6. Attempts of Vitalists to Define Life 245

7. Life Precedes Structure 250

8. Cavild of George H. Lewes 253

Chapter VIII. The Conception Of Man As A Physical Unit

1. Relation of Mind and Body 255

2. The Existence of Mind really Denied 256

3. Absurd Reasoning 258

4. Matter and Mental Force 259

5. Prof. Bain's Argument 260

6. The Fallacy of Bain's Argument Exposed 264

7. Miscellaneous Considerations 273

Chapter IX. Materialistic Process Of Eliminating Mind From Body

1. The Wrestling of Materialists with their Problem 280

2. The Strategy of the Argument 282

3. The Issue Joined 283

4. Consciousness the Ground of Judgment 285

5. The Disposition made of the Will 287

6. The Intellect as viewed by Materialists 291

7. How Brain Substance is Transformed into Ideas 301

8. The Argument Confessedly Insufficient 305

Chapter X. Hypothesis Of The Physical Basis Of Life And Mind

1. Huxley's error in regard to the Matter of Protoplasm 310

2. Mr. Lewes comes to the support of Mr. Huxley 316

3. Mr. Lewes's Argument Dissected 320

4. A new Pllement in the Materialist argument 322

5. Mr. Lewes's Objection that no one has ever seen a Spirit. . . 326

6. The Universe Primarily Vital 329

7. Relation of Body and Mind 332

CHAPTER XL

THE SHORTCOMINGS AND ABSURDITIES OF MATERIALISM.

1. The Subjective and Objective in Thought 337

2. The Process of Making a Unit of Body and Mind 344

3. Materialists confessedly use a False Terminology 347

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4. Materialism finds an Antagonist in the Inflexibility of Lan-

guage 351

5. Prof. Tyndall Wrestling with the Constitution of Matter 354

6. Herbert Spencer's Terminology 355

7. Inorganic Matter pressed into service as Organic 356

8. Materialism Draws Conclusions from Unresolved Factors. . . 359

9. It is pure Fiction that, Vitality and Thought are Cerebral

Phenomena 361

Chapter XII. Monistic Philosophy

1. Idealistic Monism 364

2. Idealists Permitted to Explain their Doctrine 365

3. Idealism Actualized , 371

4. The Basis of Idealism 373

5. Idealism Abolishes all forms of Vitality 375

6. Idealistic Arguments , 376

7. Idealism is a fancy Structure, having no Internal Reality for

its Support 378

8. Idealism Dependent upon Realism for Existence 379

9. What is Implied in the Consciousness of Existence 380

10. Summary of the Argument. 384

11. The Idea of Substance 386

12. The Verdict . 387

Chapter XIII. The Power Op Conscience

1. Method of Argumentation 388

2. Conscience as a Psychological Element 390

3. Functions of Conscience 393

4. Practical Illustrations of the Strength and Nature of Con-

science 396

5. Laws of Conscience 409