Solidarity of causes in the world, [216]. The human mind abstracts in order to explain, [219]. Different cycles of operation in Nature, [220]. Darwin's distinction between causes that produce and causes that preserve a variation, [221]. Physiological causes produce, the environment only adopts or preserves, great men, [225]. When adopted they become social ferments, [226]. Messrs. Spencer and Allen criticised, [232]. Messrs. Wallace and Gryzanowski quoted, [239]. The laws of history, [244]. Mental evolution, [245]. Analogy between original ideas and Darwin's accidental variations, [247]. Criticism of Spencer's views, [251].
THE IMPORTANCE OF INDIVIDUALS [255]
Small differences may be important, [256]. Individual differences are important because they are the causes of social change, [259]. Hero-worship justified, [261].
ON SOME HEGELISMS [263]
The world appears as a pluralism, [264]. Elements of unity in the pluralism, [268]. Hegel's excessive claims, [273]. He makes of negation a bond of union, [273]. The principle of totality, [277]. Monism and pluralism, [279]. The fallacy of accident in Hegel, [280]. The good and the bad infinite, [284]. Negation, [286]. Conclusion, [292].—Note on the Anaesthetic revelation, [294].
WHAT PSYCHICAL RESEARCH HAS ACCOMPLISHED [299]
The unclassified residuum, [299]. The Society for Psychical Research and its history, [303]. Thought-transference, [308]. Gurney's work, [309]. The census of hallucinations, [312]. Mediumship, [313]. The 'subliminal self,' [315]. 'Science' and her counter-presumptions, [317]. The scientific character of Mr. Myers's work, [320]. The mechanical-impersonal view of life versus the personal-romantic view, [324].