On the Philosophy of Discovery, Chapters Historical and Critical
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1. Front matter2. PREFACE3. Introductory material4. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION.5. CHAPTER II. Plato.6. CHAPTER III. Additional Remarks on Plato.7. CHAPTER IV. Aristotle.8. CHAPTER V. Additional Remarks on Aristotle.9. CHAPTER VI. The Later Greeks.10. CHAPTER VII. The Romans.11. CHAPTER VIII. Arabian Philosophers.12. CHAPTER IX. The Schoolmen of the Middle Ages.13. CHAPTER X. The Innovators of the Middle Ages.14. CHAPTER XI. The Innovators of the Middle Ages—continued.15. CHAPTER XII. The Revival of Platonism.16. CHAPTER XIII. The Theoretical Reformers of Science.17. CHAPTER XIV. The Practical Reformers of Science.18. CHAPTER XV. Francis Bacon.19. CHAPTER XVI. Additional Remarks on Francis Bacon.20. CHAPTER XVII. From Bacon to Newton.21. CHAPTER XVIII. Newton.22. CHAPTER XIX. Locke and his French Followers.23. CHAPTER XX. The Reaction against the Sensational School.24. CHAPTER XXI. Further Advance of the Sensational School. M. Auguste Comte.25. CHAPTER XXII. Mr. Mill's Logic[264].26. CHAPTER XXII. Mr. Mill's Logic[264]. (continued 2)27. CHAPTER XXIII. Political Economy as an Inductive Science.28. CHAPTER XXIV. Modern German Philosophy[295].29. CHAPTER XXV. The Fundamental Antithesis as it exists in the Moral World.30. CHAPTER XXVI. Of the "Philosophy of the Infinite."31. CHAPTER XXVII. Sir William Hamilton on Inertia and Weight.32. CHAPTER XXVIII. Influence of German Systems of Philosophy in Britain.33. CHAPTER XXIX. Necessary Truth is progressive. Objections considered.34. CHAPTER XXX. The Theological Bearing of the Philosophy of Discovery.35. CHAPTER XXXI. Man's Knowledge of God.36. CHAPTER XXXII. Analogies of Physical and Religious Philosophy.37. APPENDIX.38. APPENDIX. (continued 2)39. APPENDIX. (continued 3)40. APPENDIX. (continued 4)