The Analogy of Language 133 Synthetic Movement of the Cosmic Reason 137 Objections from Imperfect Adaptations and Regressive Forms Stated 143 Mechanical and Psychic Agencies, how Distinguished 146 Science versus ‘Mysticism’ 150 Reply to Objection from Imperfect Adaptations, etc. 152 Man, the Growing-point of Earthly Life 154 Immanence or Transcendence of the Cosmic Reason? 155 Man’s Relations to the Whole 157 PART II. ETHICS CHAPTER VII Law, Free Will, Personality Free Will and Determinism 161 The Determinist Position 163 The Free Will Position 164 Conditions necessary for Free Will 168 Has the Will an Ethical Bias? 169 Limitations of Free Will 172 Evolution of the Will 174 Free Will and Monism 176 Free Will and Brain-structure 177 Relations of Mind and Matter 186 Immortality 189 CHAPTER VIII The Ethical Criterion The Visible and the Invisible Worlds 194 Dualism and Monism 195 Monism and the Moral Law 198 The Hedonistic Basis of Morals 200 The Natural Basis of Morals 203 CHAPTER IX The Ethical Sanction The Individual and the Whole 208 A Scale of Motives 210 Conscience and its Commands, how respectively Derived 211 Results of Duty and of Self-indulgence Compared 212 The False and the True Asceticism 214 Ethics for Life: Implications of this Doctrine 220 Is Life Dependent on Matter? 222 The Cosmic Life gives Immortality to the Individual 225 And Demands his Allegiance 226 Ethics Originates in the Visible Order, but does not end there 228 Hence, Ethics is for Death as well as Life 229 The Martyrdoms of Socrates and of Christ 230