The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy

'Subliminal self,' 315 (#x9_x_9_i10), 321 (#x9_x_9_i21).

Substance, 80 (#x3_x_3_i38).

Suicide, 38 (#x2_x_2_i118), 50 (#x2_x_2_i152), 60 (#x2_x_2_i164).

System in philosophy, 13 (#x1_x_1_i116), 185 (#x6_x_6_i2), 199 (#x6_x_6_i28).

TELEPATHY, 10 (#x1_x_1_i108), 309 (#x9_x_9_i0).

Theism, and reflex action, 111-144 (#x4_pgepubid00048).

Theism, 127 (#x4_x_4_i50), 134-6 (#x4_x_4_i61); see 'God.'

Theology, natural, 41 (#x2_x_2_i123); Calvinistic, 45 (#x2_x_2_i129).

Theoretic faculty, 128 (#x4_x_4_i54).

Thought-transference, 309 (#x9_x_9_i0).

Thomson, 35-7 (#x2_x_2_i47), 45 (#x2_x_2_i129), 46 (#x2_x_2_i144).

Toleration, 30 (#x2_x_2_i13).

Tolstoi, 188 (#x6_x_6_i6).

'Totality,' the principle of, 277 (#x8_x_8_i19).

Triadic structure of mind, 123 (#x4_x_4_i42).

Truth, criteria of, 15 (#x1_x_1_i120); and error, 18 (#x1_x_1_i124); moral, 190-1 (#x6_x_6_i11).

UNITARIANS, 126 (#x4_x_4_i48), 133 (#x4_x_4_i60).

Unknowable, the, 68 (#x3_x_3_i13), 81 (#x3_x_3_i39).

Universe = M + x, 101 (#x3_x_3_i68); its rationality, 125 (#x4_x_4_i48), 137 (#x4_x_4_i67).

Unseen world, 51 (#x2_x_2_i154), 54 (#x2_x_2_i158), 56 (#x2_x_2_i160), 61 (#x2_x_2_i168).

Utopias, 168 (#x5_x_5_i50).

VALUE, judgments of, 103 (#x3_x_3_i71).

Variations, in heredity, etc., 225 (#x6_x_6_i69), 249 (#x7_x_7_i39).

Vaudois, 48 (#x2_x_2_i149).

Veddah, 258 (#x7_x_7_i70).

Verification of theories, 95 (#x3_x_3_i59), 105-8 (#x3_x_3_i74).

Vivisection, 58 (#x2_x_2_i162).

WALDENSES, 47-9 (#x2_x_2_i148).

Wallace, 239 (#x7_x_7_i24), 304 (#x8_x_8_i125),

Whitman, 33 (#x2_pgepubid00042), 64 (#x3_x_3_i5), 74 (#x3_x_3_i26).

Wordsworth, 60 (#x2_x_2_i164).

World, its ambiguity, 76 (#x3_x_3_i30); the invisible,

51 (#x2_x_2_i154), 54 (#x2_x_2_i158), 56 (#x2_x_2_i160); two orders of, 118 (#x4_x_4_i36).

Worth, judgments of, 103 (#x3_x_3_i71).

Wright, 52 (#x2_x_2_i156).

X., Miss, 314 (#x9_x_9_i8).

ZOLA, 172 (#x5_x_5_i56).

Zöllner, 15 (#x1_x_1_i120).

notes

1

B. P. Blood: The Flaw in Supremacy: Published by the Author, Amsterdam, N. Y., 1893.

2

An Address to the Philosophical Clubs of Yale and Brown Universities. Published in the New World, June, 1896.

3

Compare the admirable page 310 in S. H. Hodgson's "Time and Space," London, 1865.

4

Compare Wilfrid Ward's Essay, "The Wish to Believe," in his Witnesses to the Unseen, Macmillan & Co., 1893.

5

Since belief is measured by action, he who forbids us to believe religion to be true, necessarily also forbids us to act as we should if we did believe it to be true. The whole defence of religious faith hinges upon action. If the action required or inspired by the religious hypothesis is in no way different from that dictated by the naturalistic hypothesis, then religious faith is a pure superfluity, better pruned away, and controversy about its legitimacy is a piece of idle trifling, unworthy of serious minds. I myself believe, of course, that the religious hypothesis gives to the world an expression which specifically determines our reactions, and makes them in a large part unlike what they might be on a purely naturalistic scheme of belief.

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