INDEX 



Absolute, an: abstraction, xxii ; no 

 starting-point, xxiii ; 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, 371-2 ; 

 Lotze s theory of, 62-84 ; suppresses 

 difficulties ex officio, 108 ; an inter 

 pretation of reality, 119-20 ; a mis 

 conception, 126 ; unites God and the 

 devil, 167, 263, 372 ; Bradley s, 187- 

 191 ; as asylum ignorantiae, 188 ; 

 transmutes appearances, 189, 199 ; 

 unknowable, 191 ; inaccessible, 192 ; 

 solipsistic, 252 ; neither divine nor 

 conscious, 372 



Absolute Idea, 96, 102-3 



Absolutism, xxviii 



Abstraction, the kingdom of, xxii ; from 

 time and individuality, 98-9 ; its value, 

 100-102 ; its Ideological subordina 

 tion, 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, 234, 238 ; 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 ; 

 Hume s criticism of, 235-48 



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, 215-16 



Alexander, S., 261 



Alice, 369 



Analysis, of cause, 238 ; of complex 



and simple, 56 

 Anaximander, 156 

 Animism, 239 

 Annihilation of soul incapable of proof, 



373 



Anthropomorphism, xxi, 13, 240, 361 

 Antinomies, 108-9 

 Appearance and Reality, 3, 101, 226 ; 



antithesis of, 183-203 

 Apriorism, 231-3 

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



passim, 253, 257, 285, 353, 358 

 Arnold, Matthew, 2 

 Ascham, J?. , 34 

 Associationism, 240 

 Astrology, 298, 300 

 Attention, why volatile, 217 

 Authority, 273 ; argument from, 335, 



and old age, 326 

 Automata, 133-4 

 Axioms as Postulates, ix, xi ; notes\^, 



44, 50, 92, 94, 95, 129, 183, 227, 



355 



Balfour, Arthur, xii, 6 



Barbarism, and Humanism, xxvi 



Bateson, W., 135 



Beatific Vision, 203, 212 



Beauty, ideal of, 344-5 



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



216-17 

 Being, and nothing, xxii ; Aristotle s 



ideal of, 205, 226 ; unchanging, 207, 



216-17 I as perfect harmony, 225 

 Belief, and action, 251 

 Berkeley, 126, 223 

 Bias, 298, 301, 307, 312 

 Blatchford, K., 28j-ji2 fassi m 

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



183-201 passim, 244, 272 n. 

 Buddha, 158, 168 

 Burnet, /., 212 



Calculus of probabilities, 126, 150 



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