What signified their endless pages about dualism and monism, about phenomenon and noumenon?

If matter is per se forever inert, unchangeable, indestructible, then we fall into the dilemma of a materialistic monism on the one hand, Manichaean dualism on the other.

But Haeckel’s Monism, as he called his doctrine, has lately been reshaped and in its new form promises to exercise wide influence on thoughtful people in Germany.

The new Monism differs from the old, in the first place, in being much less dogmatic.

The old mechanical theory of the physical world has been gradually supplanted by the theory of energy, and Ostwald, who was one of the foremost exponents of energy, has made it a leading idea of Monism.

Monism resembles the positive philosophy and religion of Comte in so far as it means an outlook on life based entirely on science and excluding theology, mysticism, and metaphysics.

Religions have been, in principle, pessimistic, so far as the present world is concerned; Monism is, in principle, optimistic, for it recognizes that the process of his evolution has overcome, in increasing measure, the bad element in man, and will go on overcoming it still more.

Monism proclaims that development and progress are the practical principles of human conduct, while the Churches, especially the Catholic Church, have been steadily conservative, and though they have been unable to put a stop to progress have endeavoured to suppress its symptoms—to bottle up the steam.

Mohammedan free thought, 68 Monism, 188, 228 sqq.

In fact, it is a sort of monism of consciousness that inspires all pre-Miltonic epic.

Could they be reconciled, the two elements in man's modern consciousness of existence would form a monism.

But dramatic significance and epic significance have been admitted to be broadly the same; to take but one instance, Aeschylus's Prometheus is closely related to Milton's Satan (though I think Prometheus really represents a monism of consciousnessthat which is destinedas Satan represents a dualismat once the destined and the destiny).

[Sidenote: Monism.]

The father then proceeds to give an explanation of what in these days is called "Monism," that is, the absolute singleness of ultimate Being, and traces all that is, or seems to be, up to one ultimate Essence.

In fact, Monism holds the field; and though the evolution of human opinion is very slow, it appears safe to predict that the triumph of that world theory is assured.

Fries and Beneke declare that a speculative knowledge of the suprasensible is impossible, and seek to base philosophy on empirical psychology; to the monism (panlogism) of the idealists Herbart opposes a pluralism, to their philosophy of becoming, a philosophy of being; Schopenhauer rejects their optimism, denying rationality to the world and the world-ground.

In its monism, its theory of the development of mind out of matter, and its conception of law, they are one and the same.

Thus he says he has unified the physical, the physiological, and the psychicala system of absolute scientific monism.

Monism, on the other hand, insists that when you come down to reality as such, to the reality of realities, everything is present to everything else in one vast instantaneous co-implicated completenessnothing can in any sense, functional or substantial, be really absent from anything else, all things interpenetrate and telescope together in the great total conflux.

For monism, on the contrary, everything, whether we realize it or not, drags the whole universe along with itself and drops nothing.

Dr. Fuller's excellent article,' Ethical monism and the problem of evil,' in the Harvard Journal of Theology, vol.

If they can thus mould various wholes into new gestalt-qualitäten, then it follows that the same elements are logically able to exist in different wholes [whether physically able would depend on additional hypotheses]; that partial changes are thinkable, and through-and-through change not a dialectic necessity; that monism is only an hypothesis; and that an additively constituted universe is a rationally respectable hypothesis also.

INDEX INDEX TO THE LECTURES Absolute, the, 49, 108-109, 114 ff., 173, 175, 190 ff., 203, 271, 292 ff., 311; not the same as God, 111, 134; its rationality, 114 f.; its irrationality, 117-129; difficulty of conceiving it, 195. Absolutism, 34, 38, 40, 54, 72 f, 79, 122, 310. See Monism.

Monism, 36, 117, 125, 201, 313, 321 f.; Fechner's, 153. See Absolutism.

Modifications of general rules, 9. Monism and ethics, 109.