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and the postulates of feeling. § 6. (3) From dualism 

 and the different natures of body and soul. This ends 

 in materialism, or in the immortality of a universal Soul, 

 which is not personal. 



§§ 7-13- (^) "^^^^ arguments against immortality. 

 % 7. (i) Materialism. § 8. (2) The self-evidence of 

 death. But we know what death is only from the point 

 of view of the survivors, and, taking an idealist view of 

 the material world, this is insufficient. § 9. (3) The 

 gradual evolution of consciousness : either all beings are 

 immortal or none. § 10. This objection to be answered 

 only by a doctrine of gradations in immortality, corre- 

 sponding to those of consciousness. §11. Practically 

 a future life dependent on self-identity and memory. 

 § 12. But memory is a matter of degree. Immortality 

 proportioned to spiritual development. § 13. Objec- 

 tions. 



§§ 14-16. The metaphysical basis for the belief in 

 immortality. § 14. Its only secure basis in the plurality 

 of ultimate existences, whose spiritual evolution inspires 

 the material evolution. § 15. Their relation to our 

 phenomenal selves. The latter phases in the develop- 

 ment of the former, which persist as factors in that 

 development. The immortality of the good and transi- 

 toriness of evil. ^16. This theory meets the chief 

 difficulties. 



§§ 17-25. Elucidation of difficulties. § 17. Pre- 

 existence, confirmed b)'' Darwinist account of the 

 "descent of man." §§ 18-22. Pre-existence and Here- 

 dity. § 18. Not incompatible, owing (§ 19) to the 

 possibility of double causation. § 20. Examples of 

 this. §21. Hence the scientific and the metaphysical 

 views both true. § 22. The significance of heredity. 

 § 23. Do several phenomenal beings correspond to a 

 single ultimate spirit ? Evidence in favour of this view. 

 § 24. Especially in the existence of Sex. A metaphysic 

 of Love. § 25. Yet this does not affect the ultimate 

 ideal. 



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§ I. The relation of the world's evolution to ultimate 

 reality. § 2. The ultimate aim of the process — the 

 perfectioning of a society of harmonious individuals. 



