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Mind and Motion and Monism By: George John Romanes (1848-1894) |
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BY THE LATE GEORGE JOHN ROMANES, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S. HONORARY FELLOW OF GONVILLE AND CAIUS COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE
LONDON LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. AND NEW YORK 1895
Oxford
HORACE HART, PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY WORKS BY GEORGE JOHN ROMANES, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S. =DARWIN, AND AFTER DARWIN=: an Exposition of the Darwinian Theory,
and a Discussion on Post Darwinian Questions. PART I. THE DARWINIAN THEORY. With Portrait of Darwin and 125
Illustrations. Crown 8vo , 10s. 6d. PART II. POST DARWINIAN QUESTIONS: HEREDITY AND UTILITY. Crown
8vo . =AN EXAMINATION OF WEISMANNISM.= Crown 8vo , 6s. =MIND AND MOTION AND MONISM.= Crown 8vo . =THOUGHTS ON RELIGION=. Edited, with a Preface, by CHARLES GORE,
M.A., Canon of Westminster. Crown 8vo , 4s. 6d. London
LONGMANS, GREEN & CO.
PREFACE
Of the contents of this little volume the section on Mind and Motion
which forms, in accordance with a suggestion of the author's, a general
introduction, was delivered at Cambridge as the Rede Lecture in 1885,
and was printed in the Contemporary Review for June in that year. The
chapter on The World as an Eject was published, almost as it now
stands, in the Contemporary Review for July, 1886. A paper on The
Fallacy of Materialism , of which Mr. Romanes incorporated the more
important parts in the Essay on Monism, was contributed to the
Nineteenth Century for December, 1882. The rest was left in MS. and
was probably written in 1889 or 1890. The subjects here discussed frequently occupied Mr. Romanes' keen and
versatile mind. Had not the hand of death fallen upon him while so much
of the ripening grain of his thought still remained to be finally
garnered, some modifications and extensions of the views set forth in
the Essay on Monism would probably have been introduced. Attention may
be drawn, for example, to the sentence on p. 139, italicized by the
author himself, in which it is contended that the will as agent must be
identified with the principle of Causality . I have reason to believe
that the chapter on The World as an Eject would, in a final revision
of the Essay as a whole, have been modified so as to lay stress on this
identification of the human will with the principle of Causality in the
world at large a doctrine the relation of which to the teachings of
Schopenhauer will be evident to students of philosophy. But the hand of death closed on the thinker ere his thought had received
its full and ultimate expression. When in July, 1893, I received from
Mr. Romanes instructions with regard to the publication of that which
now goes forth to the world in his name, his end seemed very near; and
he said with faltering voice, in tones the pathos of which lingers with
me still, that this and much besides must, he feared, be left
unfinished. He suggested that perhaps I might revise the parts in the
light of the whole. But I have thought it best to leave what he had
written as he wrote it, save for quite unimportant emendations, lest in
revising I should cast over it the shadow of my own opinions. It only remains to add that the conclusions reached in this Essay should
be studied in connection with the later Thoughts on Religion which
Canon Gore has recently edited.
C. LL. M.
BRISTOL,
May, 1895.
CONTENTS
PAGE MIND AND MOTION 1 MONISM 39 INTRODUCTION 41 CHAPTER I. SPIRITUALISM 47 " II. MATERIALISM 55 " III. MONISM 79 " IV. THE WORLD AS AN EJECT 88 " V... Continue reading book >>
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