LONDON LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. AND NEW YORK 1895
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HORACE HART, PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY
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DARWIN, AND AFTER DARWIN: an Exposition of the Darwinian Theory, and aDiscussion on Post-Darwinian Questions.
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MIND AND MOTION AND MONISM.
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Of the contents of this little volume the section on Mind and Motionwhich forms, in accordance with a suggestion of the author's, a generalintroduction, was delivered at Cambridge as the Rede Lecture in 1885,and was printed in the Contemporary Review for June in that year. Thechapter on The World as an Eject was published, almost as it nowstands, in the Contemporary Review for July, 1886. A paper on TheFallacy of Materialism, of which Mr. Romanes incorporated the moreimportant parts in the Essay on Monism, was contributed to theNineteenth Century for December, 1882. The rest was left in MS. andwas probably written in 1889 or 1890.
The subjects here discussed frequently occupied Mr. Romanes' keen andversatile mind. Had not[Pg vi] the hand of death fallen upon him while so muchof the ripening grain of his thought still remained to be finallygarnered, some modifications and extensions of the views set forth inthe Essay on Monism would probably have been introduced. Attention maybe drawn, for example, to the sentence on p. 139,italicized by the author himself, in which it is contended that the willas agent must be identified with the principle of Causality. I havereason to believe that the chapter on The World as an Eject would, ina final revision of the Essay as a whole, have been modified so as tolay stress on this identification of the human will with the principleof Causality in the world at large—a doctrine the relation of which tothe teachings of Schopenhauer will be evident to students of philosophy.
But the hand of death closed on the thinker ere his thought had receivedits full and ultimate expression. When in July, 1893, I received fromMr. Romanes instructions with regard to the publication of that whichnow goes forth to the world in his name, his end seemed very near; andhe said with faltering voice, in tones the pathos of which lingers withme still, that this and much besides must, he feared, be leftunfinished. He suggested that perhaps I might revise the parts in[Pg vii] thelight of the whole. But I have thought it best to leave what he hadwritten as he wr