The difficulties attending every kind of knowledge paralleled with the difficulties alleged against Theism. If the Inexplicable be also the Unknowable, there is an end to all knowledge. We cannot predicate veracity of our human Mind, we cannot even know that we know anything. Mr. J. S. Mill accepts Mind as an inexplicable Fact underlying all other Facts and Beliefs. We must accept ultimate Truths.
Transition to Chapter IV. on the affirmative evidence for our Reasonable Beliefs.
Corollary on Materialism. Far more difficult than its antithesis. Conclusion to be drawn from these difficulties.
Additional Notes and Illustrations.
A.—Account of some theories respecting our Personal Identity.
B.—Helmholtz, Popular Lectures on Recent Progress of the Theory of Vision.
C.—Helmholtz on Specialties of Sensibility.
D.—Popular account of Pure Idealism with critical remarks.
E.—On the Relations of Fact and Theory.
F.—On the "Unknowable."