Chapter VI: The Impulses and the Will

The Doctrine of Will depends upon that of Intelligence 109

The Character of Impulse 111

Of Desire 112

Half-Pains and Pleasures 113

The Outcome of Desire 115

Nature of Moral Action 117

Of Freedom 118

(1) Freedom as Contingency 119

Limitation of this Principle 121

(2) Freedom as Spontaneity 123

This Principle is too Broad to be a Moral Principle 125

(3) True Freedom is Rational Action 125

Our Lack of Freedom is due to our Sensuous Nature 128

Innate Practical Principles 129

Moral Science is Demonstrative 130

CHAPTER VII.

Matter and its Relation to Spirit.

Locke's Account of Matter and Allied Ideas the Foundation of the
Philosophy of Nature Characteristic of British Empiricism 132

Space and Matter wholly Distinct Ideas 134

Leibniz gives Matter a Metaphysical Basis 137

Ordinary Misunderstanding of Leibniz's Ideas of Matter 138

Matter is not composed of Monads 139

Matter is the Passive or Conditioned Side of Monads 140

Passivity equals "Confused Representations," _i. e._ Incomplete
Development of Reason 144

Matter is logically Necessary from Leibniz's Principles 145

Bearing of Discussion upon Doctrine of Pre-established Harmony 146

Summary 147