Descartes distinguished his theory from that of Democritus in
the _Principles of Philosophy_, Part IV, Sect. ccii.
[231:5] Pearson: _Grammar of Science_, pp. 259-260. Cf. _ibid._, Chap.
VII, entire.
[232:6] Quoted in Ueberweg: _History of Philosophy_, II, p. 124.
[233:7] Quoted from the _Opticks_ of Newton by James Ward, in his
_Naturalism and Agnosticism_, I, p. 43.
[236:8] Haeckel: _Riddle of the Universe_. Translation by McCabe, p.
254.
The best systematic presentation of "energetics" is to be found in
Ostwald's _Vorlesungen ueber Natur-Philosophie_. Herbert Spencer, in his
well-known _First Principles_, makes philosophical use of both "force"
and "energy."
[238:9] Cf. Chap. IX.
[240:10] Lucretius: _Op. cit._, Bk. I, lines 1021-1237.
[241:11] Quoted from La Place's essay on _Probability_ by Ward: _Op.
cit._, I, p. 41.
[243:12] An interesting account and criticism of such a theory
(Clifford's) is to be found in Royce's _Spirit of Modern Philosophy_,
Lecture X.
[244:13] This method replaced the old theory of "catastrophes" through
the efforts of the English geologists, Hutton (1726-1797) and Lyell
(1767-1849).
[245:14] Harvey's discovery of the circulation of the blood, published
in 1628, was regarded as a step in this direction.
[250:15] From the account of La Mettrie in Lange: _History of
Materialism_. Translation by Thomas, II, pp. 67-68.
[251:16] Quoted from Voltaire's London _Letter on the English_, by
Lange: _Op. cit._, II, p. 18.
[251:17] Quoted by Lange: _Op. cit._, II, p. 113.
[252:18] The phrase "psycho-physical parallelism," current in
psychology, may mean automatism of the kind expounded above, and may
also mean dualism. It is used commonly as a methodological principle to
signify that no causal relationship between mind and body, but one of
_correspondence_, is to be looked for in empirical psychology. Cf. Sect.
99.
[255:19] Quoted by Ward: _Op. cit._, I, p. 18.
[256:20] There are times when Huxley, _e. g._, would seem to be on the
verge of the Berkeleyan idealism. Cf. Chap. IX.
[256:21] For the case of Karl Pearson, read his _Grammar of Science_,
Chap. II.
[261:22] Pater: _The Renaissance_, pp. 249-250.
[262:23] Hobbes: _Leviathan,_ Chap. XV.
[265:24] Quoted from Balfour: _Foundations of Belief_, pp. 29-31.
[265:25] Ferguson: _Religion of Democracy_, p. 10.
[266:26] Haeckel: _Op. cit._, p. 344.
[266:27] Huxley: _Evolution and Ethics_, p. 45. _Collec
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