Produced by Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe, Janet Blenkinship and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net MIND AND MOTION AND MONISM BY THE LATE GEORGE JOHN ROMANES, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S. HONORARY FELLOW OF GONVILLE AND CAIUS COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE LONDON LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. AND NEW YORK 1895 Oxford HORACE HART, PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY WORKS BY _GEORGE JOHN ROMANES, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S._ =DARWIN, AND AFTER DARWIN=: an Exposition of the Darwinian Theory, and a Discussion on Post-Darwinian Questions. PART I. THE DARWINIAN THEORY. With Portrait of Darwin and 125 Illustrations. _Crown 8vo_, 10s. 6d. PART II. POST-DARWINIAN QUESTIONS: HEREDITY AND UTILITY. _Crown 8vo_. =AN EXAMINATION OF WEISMANNISM.= _Crown 8vo_, 6s. =MIND AND MOTION AND MONISM.= _Crown 8vo_. =THOUGHTS ON RELIGION=. Edited, with a Preface, by CHARLES GORE, M.A., Canon of Westminster. _Crown 8vo_, 4s. 6d. London LONGMANS, GREEN & CO. PREFACE Of the contents of this little volume the section on _Mind and Motion_ which forms, in accordance with a suggestion of the author's, a general introduction, was delivered at Cambridge as the Rede Lecture in 1885, and was printed in the _Contemporary Review_ for June in that year. The chapter on The _World as an Eject_ was published, almost as it now stands, in the _Contemporary Review_ for July, 1886. A paper on _The Fallacy of Materialism_, of which Mr. Romanes incorporated the more important parts in the Essay on Monism, was contributed to the _Nineteenth Century_ for December, 1882. The rest was left in MS. and was probably written in 1889 or 1890. The subjects here discussed frequently occupied Mr. Romanes' keen and versatile mind. Had not the hand of death fallen upon him while so much of the ripening grain of his thought still remained to be finally garnered, some modifications and extensions of the views set forth in the Essay on Monism would probably have been introduced. Attention may be drawn, for example, to the sentence on p. 139, italicized by the author himself, in which it is contended that the will as agent _must be identified with the principle of Causality_. I have reason to believe that the chapter on _The World as an Eject_ would, in a final revision of the Essay as a whole, have been modified so as to lay stress on this identification of the human will with the principle of Causality in the world at large--a doctrine the relation of which to the teachings of Schopenhauer will be evident to students of philosophy.