ANALYSIS OF CONTENTS. 



BOOK J. 



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Chapter I. Introductory 



§ r. The prevalent despair of solving the highest 

 problems of knowledge not justified in an age of pro- 

 gress. § 2. Causes of this despair in the faulty attitude 

 of religion, philosophy, and science. § 3. Its results — a 

 posiiivist temper — " we can do without philosophy. ^^ § 4. 

 But we can not. Philosophy as the theory of Life, and 

 so practical. §§ 5-8. Tlie problem of philosophy really 

 that of all knowledge ; shown both in the common origin 

 of religion (§ 6), philosophy (§ 7), and science (§ 8), 

 viz., Animism, and in their common end, viz., practice. 

 § 9. Hence Positivism must admit that philosophy is 

 desirable and important. It can only assert that it is 

 impossible, and § 10 tliereby become Agnosticism. 



Chapter II. Agnosticism 16 



§ I. Its two varieties, scientific and epistemological, 

 Spencer and Kant. 



§§ 2-6. Objections to both. % 2. Suspense of judg- 

 ment on the problems of life impossible in practice. 

 § 3. The argument from the known to the unknowable 

 always involves a contradiction. § 4. The impossibility 

 of a transition from the known to the unknowable. § 5. 

 No infinity in things to suggest an unknowable. § 6. 

 Agnosticism must be rendered consistent by a denial of 

 the causality of the Unknowable, which is thereby re- 

 duced to nought. 



§§ 7-10. Spencer ian Agnosticism. % 7. ia) Direct 

 arguments to show the existence of the Unknowable 

 r. of s. ^'" b 



