-Equal rights of
empiricism.--Logic dependent on fact for its importance, and for
its subsistence.--Reason and docility.--Applicable thought and
clarified experience

CHAPTER IX--HOW THOUGHT IS PRACTICAL Pages 205-235
Functional relations of mind and body.--They form one natural
life.--Artifices involved in separating them.--Consciousness
expresses vital equilibrium and docility.--Its worthlessness as a
cause and value as an expression.--Thought's march automatic and
thereby implicated in events.--Contemplative essence of
action.--Mechanical efficacy alien to thought's
essence.--Consciousness transcendental and transcendent.--It is the
seat of value.--Apparent utility of pain.--Its real impotence.---
Preformations involved.--Its untoward significance.--Perfect
function not unconscious.--Inchoate ethics.--Thought the entelechy
of being.--Its exuberance

CHAPTER X--THE MEASURE OF VALUES IN REFLECTION Pages 236-255
Honesty in hedonism.--Necessary qualifications.--The will must
judge.--Injustice inherent in representation.--AEsthetic and
speculative cruelty.--Imputed values: their inconstancy.--Methods
of control.--Example of fame.--Disproportionate interest in the
aesthetic.--Irrational religious allegiance.--Pathetic
idealisations.--Inevitable impulsiveness in prophecy.--The test a
controlled present ideal

CHAPTER XI--SOME ABSTRACT CONDITIONS OF THE IDEAL Pages 256-268
The ultimate end a resultant.--Demands the substance of
ideals.--Discipline of the will.--Demands made practical and
consistent.--The ideal natural.--Need of unity and
finality.--Ideals of nothing.--Darwin on moral sense.--Conscience
and reason compared.--Reason imposes no new sacrifice.--Natural
goods attainable and compatible in principle.--Harmony the formal
and intrinsic demand of reason

CHAPTER XII--FLUX AND CONSTANCY IN HUMAN NATURE Pages 269-291
Respectable tradition that human nature is fixed.--Contrary
currents of opinion.--Pantheism.--Instability in existences does
not dethrone their ideals.--Absolutist philosophy human and
halting.--All science a deliverance of momentary thought.--All
criticism likewise.--Origins inessential.--Ideals functional.--They
are transferable to similar beings.--Authority internal.--Reason
autonomous.--Its distribution.--Natural sele