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Table of Contents
| [CHAPTER I.]—A SECOND AVENUE HOUSEHOLD. | |
| [CHAPTER II.]—JOHN SUYDAM GIVES HIS BLESSING. | |
| [CHAPTER III.]—BROOKLYN AND BABYLON. | |
| [CHAPTER IV.]—IN THE GREEN ROOM OF LITERATURE. | |
| [CHAPTER V.]—THE SWEETS OF SOLITUDE. | |
| [CHAPTER VI.]—SUYDAM’S LEGACY AND HERMIA’S WILL. | |
| [CHAPTER VII.]—A HEROINE IN TRAINING. | |
| [CHAPTER VIII.]—HERMIA DISCOVERS HERSELF. | |
| [CHAPTER IX.]—HELEN SIMMS. | |
| [CHAPTER X.]—A MENTAL PHOTOGRAPH GALLERY. | |
| [CHAPTER XI.]—A TAILOR-MADE FATE. | |
| [CHAPTER XII.]—THE CLUB OF FREE DISCUSSION. | |
| [CHAPTER XIII.]—OGDEN CRYDER. | |
| [CHAPTER XIV.]—IN A METROPOLITAN JUNGLE. | |
| [CHAPTER XV.]—A CLEVER TRIFLER. | |
| [CHAPTER XVI.]—A LITERARY DINNER. | |
| [CHAPTER XVII.]—AN ILLUSION DISPELLED. | |
| [CHAPTER XVIII.]—A BLOODLESS ENTHUSIAST. | |
| [CHAPTER XIX.]—TASTELESS FRUIT. | |
| [CHAPTER XX.]—A COMMONPLACE MEETING. | |
| [CHAPTER XXI.]—BACK TO THE PAST. | |
| [CHAPTER XXII.]—QUINTARD IS DISCUSSED. | |
| [CHAPTER XXIII.]—PLATONIC PROSPECTS. | |
| [CHAPTER XXIV.]—AN UNEXPECTED CONFESSION. | |
| [CHAPTER XXV.]—THE POWER OF PERSONALITY. | |
| [CHAPTER XXVI.]—HERMIA HEARS THE TRUTH. | |
| [CHAPTER XXVII.]—FIVE POINTS OF VIEW. | |
| [CHAPTER XXVIII.]—TWO HISTORIES ARE ALMOST FINISHED. | |
| [CHAPTER XXIX.]—AN EPOCH-MAKING DEPARTURE. | |
| [CHAPTER XXX.]—THROUGH THE SNOW. | |
| [CHAPTER XXXI.]—THE DYKMAN REPRIMAND. | |
| [CHAPTER XXXII.]—FUTURITY. | |
| [CHAPTER XXXIII.]—CHAOS. | |
| [CHAPTER XXXIV.]—LIFE FROM DEATH. | |
| [CHAPTER XXXV.]—IDEALS RESTORED. | |
| [CHAPTER XXXVI.]—AN AWAKENING. | |
| [CHAPTER XXXVII.]—THE DOCTRINE OF THE INEVITABLE. | |
| [CHAPTER XXXVIII.]—BETWEEN DAY AND NIGHT. | |
| [CHAPTER XXXIX.]—THE REALIZATION OF IDEALS. |
FROM HERBERT SPENCER’S CHAPTER ON “THE WILL.”
To say that the performance of the action is the result of his free will is to say that he determines the cohesion of the psychical states which arouse the action; and as these psychical states constitute himself at the moment, this is to say that these psychical states determine their own cohesion, which is absurd. These cohesions have been determined by experiences—the greater part of them, constituting what we call his natural character, by the experiences of antecedent organisms, and the rest by his own experiences. The changes which at each moment take place in his consciousness are produced by this infinitude of previous experiences registered in his nervous structure, co-operating with the immediate impressions on his senses; the effects of these combined factors being in every sense qualified by the psychical state, general or local, of his organism.
HERMIA SUYDAM