INDEX 



Abasement, of individual before God, 

 a sort of pantheism, 361, note i. 



Abbot, Dr. F. E., his Scientific Theism, 

 in Concord " symposium," 56 note. 



Absolute, the, as total World of 

 Spirits, or " City of God," xii seq. ; 

 as the Unknowable, 2, 15, 272; as, 

 proximately, the rational nature, 

 30, 41, 70 note, 276; identified, by 

 empirical method, with the Sum of 

 Things, 83 seq.; as Will, 107; as 

 the Unconscious, no seq. ; reduced 

 by Hartmann to relativity, 120; as 

 the Actual, or real matter, 123 seq. ; 

 rendered relative by Diiliring also, 

 139; as Inclusive Unit, a case of 

 false pretences, of meaningless ab- 

 straction, 410. 



Agnosticism, Spencerian evolution- 

 ism a form of, 2, 15, 29 ; an unwar- 

 rantable arrest of philosophic 

 movement, 15; evolutional, in- 

 volves petitio, 16 seq., and also 

 self-contradiction, 22 seq.; claims 

 existence of the Unknowable by 

 " inconceivability of opposite," 23; 

 breaks down by this assertion of 

 knowledge, 24 seq. ; " critical," re- 

 duces conscious life to essential 

 delirium, 158; a haunting certainty 

 the Nemesis of, 162, 168 ; genesis 

 of " critical," 166; self-dissolution 

 of, 168 seq. ; drastic cure for, sup- 

 plied in Hume, 176 seq. 



Alternative, involved in all freedom, 

 319, Ijut not the whole account of 

 i'. 319. 369 ; needs explanation it- 

 self by higher principle, 319, 375; 

 explanation of, in noumonal power 

 to transcend sensory Check, 365 

 seq. ; a derivative product of real 

 freedom, 376. [See under Evil.] 



433 



Anselm, employs Ontological Proof 

 of God, 356; justly criticised by 

 Descartes, 358. 



x4 Prio}-i Cognition, system of, the 

 essential being and true person of 

 a mind, xiii, 41, 301, 305, 308 seq. ; 

 gives "form" to experience, xiii, 

 18, 325 ; not explained away by 

 Spencer, 18 seq. ; presupposed in 

 association of ideas, 19 ; also, in 

 all experience, 30 ; presupposed by 

 logic of induction, 35 ; principle 

 of evolution a case of, 40 ; an act 

 of each conscious being, 44 seq., of. 

 36, 302, but not admitted as such 

 by any evolutional philosophy, 44 ; 

 proofs of, 46, 296 seq. ; fact of 

 proves immortality, 305 seq. ; in- 

 cludes our guiding deals, 309, and 

 so provides for worth of immor- 

 tality, 310; nature and reality of, 

 of worth, 310 seq. ; proof of, con- 

 stitutes proof of freedom, and of 

 the whole system of Personal Ideal- 

 ism, xli-xliv, 415 seq. 



A Priori Law in Nature, evolution a 

 case of, 40 ; essential to free-agency, 



323- 



Aquinas, St. Thomas, represents Mid- 

 dle Doctrine of relation between 

 reason and religion, 228. 



Aristotle, his definition of God, xv; 

 profound ambiguity of his philos- 

 ophy, xxv ; relation of Personal 

 Idealism to his system, xxv, xxvi ; 

 his relation to pantheism, xxv, 63 

 note ; his division of the fine arts, 

 207; his criticism of previous 

 Greek philosophy, 364 ; his Sys- 

 tem of Causes, 364, 365 ; his 

 failure to reach pure finalism, 365, 

 cf. xxv. 



