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Boussinesq's Mathematical Argument .... 179 



Singular Solutions . . . . . . . .180 



Room for Voluntary Determination . . . . 181 



Indetermination in Organic Variability . . . .182 



Organisms and Crystals . . . . . . .183 



Delboeuf on the modus operandi of Freedom . . .184 

 Energy stored in the Organism . . . . .186 



Mechanism of the Nervous System 187 



Purely directive function of Will 188 



Self-control 189 



Evolution of Will 190 



A Dog Pointing 191 



Huxley on Necessity and Freedom 192 



Fate is as hypothetical as Freedom . . . . .193 

 Automatism denies that Will can be an Agent . .194 

 Paradoxical character of Automatism . . . .196 

 Romanes on Automatism ...... 197 



Direct affirmation of Consciousness 198 



Automatism removes no difficulty . . . . .199 

 How Automatism differs from the old Necessarianism . 200 



Free Will and Providential Action 202 



Kennedy's Donnellan Lectures .... 203 



CHAPTER XI. 



THE REALITY OF KNOWLEDGE. 204 



The Problem of Knowledge ...... 205 



Metaphysical Error ....... 206 



Sensation, the ultimate Mystery ..... 207 



The two factors of Knowledge ...... 208 



Substance and Form in Thought 209 



Kant's Agnosticism ....... 210 



