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Title: Mind and Motion and Monism

Author: George John Romanes

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MIND AND MOTION AND MONISM

BY THE LATE

GEORGE JOHN ROMANES, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S.

HONORARY FELLOW OF GONVILLE AND CAIUS COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE

LONDON LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. AND NEW YORK 1895
Oxford
HORACE HART, PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY

WORKS BY _GEORGE JOHN ROMANES, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S._

=DARWIN, AND AFTER DARWIN=: an Exposition of the Darwinian Theory,
and a Discussion on Post-Darwinian Questions.

PART I. THE DARWINIAN THEORY. With Portrait of Darwin and 125
Illustrations. _Crown 8vo_, 10s. 6d.

PART II. POST-DARWINIAN QUESTIONS: HEREDITY AND UTILITY. _Crown
8vo_.

=AN EXAMINATION OF WEISMANNISM.= _Crown 8vo_, 6s.

=MIND AND MOTION AND MONISM.= _Crown 8vo_.

=THOUGHTS ON RELIGION=. Edited, with a Preface, by CHARLES GORE,
M.A., Canon of Westminster. _Crown 8vo_, 4s. 6d.

London
LONGMANS, GREEN & CO.

PREFACE

Of the contents of this little volume the section on _Mind and Motion_
which forms, in accordance with a suggestion of the author's, a general
introduction, was delivered at Cambridge as the Rede Lecture in 1885,
and was printed in the _Contemporary Review_ for June in that year. The
chapter on The _World as an Eject_ was published, almost as it now
stands, in the _Contemporary Review_ for July, 1886. A paper on _The
Fallacy of Materialism_, of which Mr. Romanes incorporated the more
important parts in the Essay on Monism, was contributed to the
_Nineteenth Century_ for December, 1882. The rest was left in MS. and
was probably written in 1889 or 1890.

The subjects here discussed frequently occupied Mr. Romanes' keen and
versatile mind. Had not the hand of death fallen upon him while so much
of the ripening