Naturalism and Agnosticism Book

1906. This book contains Volumes 1 and 2 of the original works. Found within are the Gifford Lectures delivered before the University of Aberdeen in the years 1896-1898. These lectures do not form a systematic treatise. They only attempt to discuss in a popular way certain assumptions of modern science which have led to a widespread, but more or less tacit, rejection of idealistic views of the world. Partial Contents: mechanical theory; relation of abstract dynamics to actual phenomena; molecular mechanics its indirectness; molecular mechanics, ideals or matter; theory of energy; mechanical evolution; biological evolution; theory of psychophysical parallelism; conscious automation theory; refutation of dualism; experience as life; unity of individual and universal experience; spiritualistic monism.