fixation of interests.--Primary dualities.--First
gropings.--Instinct the nucleus of reason.--Better and worse the
fundamental categories


CHAPTER II--FIRST STEPS AND FIRST FLUCTUATIONS Pages 48-63
Dreams before thoughts.--The mind vegetates uncontrolled save by
physical forces.--Internal order supervenes.--Intrinsic pleasure in
existence.--Pleasure a good, but not pursued or remembered unless
it suffuses an object.--Subhuman delights.--Animal living.--Causes
at last discerned.--Attention guided by bodily impulse


CHAPTER III--THE DISCOVERY OF NATURAL OBJECTS Pages 64-83
Nature man's home.--Difficulties in conceiving
nature.--Transcendental qualms.--Thought an aspect of life and
transitive.--Perception cumulative and synthetic.--No identical
agent needed.--Example of the sun.--His primitive divinity.--Causes
and essences contrasted.--Voracity of intellect.--Can the
transcendent be known?--Can the immediate be meant?--Is thought a
bridge from sensation to sensation?--_Mens naturaliter
platonica_.--Identity and independence predicated of things


CHAPTER IV--ON SOME CRITICS OF THIS DISCOVERY Pages 84-117
Psychology as a solvent.--Misconceived rôle of intelligence.--All
criticism dogmatic.--A choice of hypotheses.--Critics disguised
enthusiasts.--Hume's gratuitous scepticism.--Kant's substitute for
knowledge.--False subjectivity attributed to reason.--Chimerical
reconstruction.--The Critique a work on mental