[1] This Essay is formed of portions of an article in Scribner's Magazine for March, 1890, of an article in the Forum for July, 1892, and of the President's Address before the Society for Psychical Research, published in the Proceedings for June, 1896, and in Science.
[2] Written in 1891. Since then, Mr. Balfour, the present writer, and Professor William Crookes have held the presidential office.
INDEX.
Abstract conceptions, 219.
Action, as a measure of belief, 3, 29-30.
Actual world narrower than ideal, 202.
Alternatives, 156, 161, 202, 269.
Ambiguity of choice, 156; of being, 292.
Anaesthetic revelation, 294.
A priori truths, 268.
Apparitions, 311.
Aristotle, 249.
Associationism, in Ethics, 186.
Atheist and acorn, 160.
Authorities in Ethics, 204; versus champions, 207.
Axioms, 268.
BAGEHOT, 232.
Balfour, 9.
Being, its character, 142; in Hegel, 281.
Belief, 59. See 'Faith.'
Bellamy, 188.
Bismarck, 228.
Block-universe, 292.
Blood, B. P., vi, 294.
CALVINISM, 45.
Carlyle, 42, 44, 45, 73, 87, 173.
'Casuistic question' in Ethics, 198.
Causality, 147.
Causation, Hume's doctrine of, 278.
Census of hallucinations, 312.
Choice, 156.
Cicero, 92.
City of dreadful night, 35.
Clark, X., 50.
Classifications, 67.
Clifford, 6, 7, 10, 14, 19, 21, 92, 230.
Clive, 228.
Clough, 6.
Common-sense, 270.
Conceptual order of world, 118.
Conscience, 186-8.
Contradiction, as used by Hegel, 275-277.
Contradictions of philosophers, 16.
Crillon, 62
Criterion of truth, 15, 16; in Ethics, 205.
Crude order of experience, 118.
Crystal vision, 314.
Data, 271.
Davey, 313.
Demands, as creators of value, 201.
'Determination is negation,' 286-290.
Determinism, 150; the Dilemma of;
145-183; 163, 166; hard and soft, 149.
Dogs, 57.
Dogmatism, 12.
Dupery, 27.
Elephant, 282.
Empiricism, i., 12, 14, 17, 278.
England, 228.
Environment, its relation to great men,
223, 226; to great thoughts, 250.
Error, 163; duty of avoiding, 18.
Essence of good and bad, 200-1.
Ethical ideals, 200.
Ethical philosophy, 208, 210, 216.
Ethical standards, 205; diversity of, 200.
Ethics, its three questions, 185.
Evidence, objective, 13, 15, 16.
Evolution, social, 232, 237; mental, 245.
Evolutionism, its test of right, 98-100.
Expectancy, 77-80.
Experience, crude, versus rationalized,
FACTS, 271.
Faith, that truth exists, 9, 23; in our
fellows, 24-5; school boys' definition of, 29;
a remedy for pessimism, 60, 101; religious, 56;
defined, 90; defended against 'scientific'
objections, viii-xi, 91-4; may
create its own verification, 59, 96-103.
Familiarity confers rationality, 76.
Fatalism, 88.
Fitzgerald, 160.
GALTON, 242.
Ghosts, 315,
Gnosticism, 138-140, 165, 169.
God, 61, 68; of Nature, 43; the most
adequate object for our mind, 116,
122; our relations to him, 134-6;
his providence, 182; his demands
create obligation, 193; his function
in Ethics, 212-215.
Goethe, 111.
Goodness, 190.
Great-man theory of history, 232.
Great men and their environment, 216-254.
Green, 206,
Gryzanowski, 240.
Guthrie, 309.
Guyau, 188.
HALLUCINATIONS, Census of, 312.
Happiness, 33.
Harris, 282.
Hegel, 72, 263; his excessive claims,
272; his use of negation, 273, 290;
of contradiction, 274, 276; on being,
281; on otherness, 283; on infinity,
284; on identity, 285; on determination,
289; his ontological emotion, 297.
Hegelisms, on some, 263-298.
Heine, 203.
Henry IV., 62.
Herbart, 280.
Hero-worship, 261.
Hinton, C. H., 15.
Hinton, J., 101.
Hodgson, R., 308.
Hodgson, S, H., 10.
Honor, 50.
Hugo, 213.
Human mind, its habit of abstracting, 219.
Hume on causation, 278.
Hypotheses, live or dead, 2; their
verification, 105; of genius, 249.
IDEALS, 200; their conflict, 202.
Identity, 285.
Imperatives, 211.
Importance of individuals, the, 255-262;
of things, its ground, 257.
Indeterminism, 150.
Individual differences, 259.
Individuals, the importance of, 255-262
Infinite, 284.
Intuitionism, in Ethics, 186, 189.
JEVONS, 249.
Judgments of regret, 159.
KNOWING, 12.
Knowledge, 85.
Leibnitz, 43.
Life, is it worth living, 32-62.
MAGGOTS, 176-7.
Marcus Aurelius, 41.
Materialism, 126.
'Maybes,' 59.
Measure of good, 205.
Mediumship, physical, 313, 314.
Mental evolution, 246; structure, 114, 117.
Mill, 234.
Mind, its triadic structure, 114, 117;
its evolution, 246; its three departments,
Monism, 279.
Moods, the strenuous and the easy, 211, 213
Moralists, objective and subjective, 103-108.
Moral judgments, their origin, 186-8;
obligation, 192-7; order, 193;
philosophy, 184-5.
Moral philosopher and the moral life, the, 184-215.
Murder, 178.
Mystical phenomena, 300.
Mysticism, 74.