INDEX 



Absolute, an abstraction, xviii ; no 

 starting-point, xix ; the death of 

 morals, 2 ; its transcendence of 

 distinctions, 3 ; triviality of its con 

 templation, 4; its monotony, 14, and 

 irredeemable perfection, 14 ; as un 

 knowable and a useless theory, 41, 

 and hence to be called false, 59 ; as 

 explaining objectivity, 60, 286-7 I 

 Lotze s theory of, 62-84 &amp;lt; suppresses 

 difficulties ex qfflcio, 108 ; an inter 

 pretation of reality, 119-20; a mis 

 conception, 126 ; unites God and the 

 devil, 167, 287 ; Bradley s, 187-91 ; 

 as asylum ignorantia, 188 ; trans 

 mutes appearances, 189, 199 ; un 

 knowable, 191 ; inaccessible, 192 ; 

 neither divine nor conscious, 287 



Absolute Idea, 96, 102-3 



Absolutism, xxiv 



Abstraction, the kingdom of, xviii; from 

 time and individuality, 98-9; its value, 

 100-2 ; its Ideological subordination, 

 104 ; as instrument, 120 ; mathe 

 matical, why judged real, 120 ; as 

 method of simplification, 145-8; 

 produces timelessness, 212 



Accidents not distinct from essence, 



222 



Activity, purposive, condition of know 

 ledge, 12 ; speculative, 25-6 ; of 

 intelligence, 130 ; of Mephisto, 180, 

 and substance, 204-27 ; transcend 

 ing change, 205 ; of divine life, 212; 

 motion as, 214 ; is substance, 225 



Actuality, 67, 208, 224, 226 



Adaptation, argument from, to an 

 adapter, 131 ; its imperfection, 131 ; 

 shown by Darwin to be conceivable 

 without adapter, 132, origin of, 142; 

 growth of, 142 ; novelty of, 143 ; 

 not due to natural selection, 154 ; 

 instantaneous in perfect life, 215-6 



Alice, 284 



Analysis of complex and simple, 56 



Anaximander, 156 



Annihilation of soul incapable of proof, 



288 



Anthropomorphism, xvii, 13, 276 

 Antinomies, 108-9 

 Appearance and Reality, 3, 101, 226 ; 



antithesis of, 183-203 

 Aristotle, 19-40, 67, 203, 205-27 



passim, 268, 273 

 Arnold, Matthew, 2 

 Attention, why volatile, 217 

 Authority, argument from, 250, and old 



age, 241 

 Automata, 133-4 



Baldwin, J. M., 8 



Balfour, Arthur, viii, 6 



Barbarism, and Humanism, xxii 



Bateson, W., 135 



Beatific Vision, 203, 212 



Beauty, ideal of, 259-60 



Becoming, 107, 118, 207, 208, 210, 



216-7 

 Being, and nothing, xviii ; Aristotle s 



ideal of, 205, 226 ; unchanging, 207, 



216-7 i as perfect harmony, 225 

 Berkeley, 126, 223 

 Bradley, F. H., 3, 38, 96, 101, 108, 



183-201 passim 

 Buddha, 158, 168 

 Burnet, J., 212 



Calculus of probabilities, 126, 150 



Calinon, 86, 89 



Carroll, Lewis, 53, 216 



Causation, 64 ; immanent not more 



intelligible than transient, 68-9 

 Cave-dwellers, 21, 23, 41, 43 

 Chance as originating world, 72 ; as 



excluding intelligence, 150 

 Change, and identity, 69 ; problem of, 



73, 101 ; endangers adaptation, 143 ; 



as fact, 1 88 ; as defect, 211 

 Coexistence and interaction, 65 

 Cognition as moral act, 15 

 Coherence a psychological fact, 52-3 ; 



feelings of, 52 ; not always logical, 



291 



