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Part 1 Chapter 9 Planes and Dialects of Thought

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thinking men in the perpetual difficulty that arises from the fact that the universe can be seen in many different fashions and expressed by many different systems

ferent levels and in different planes, and that we accomplish a large amount of error a

oot of 2 with a rook rifle as of cutting an atom in half with a knife. One's conception of an atom is reached through a process of hypothesis and analysis, and in the world of atoms there are no knives and no men to cut. If you have thought with a strong consistent mental movement, then when you have thought of your atom under the knife blade, your knife blade has itself become a cloud of swinging grouped atoms, and your microscope lens a little universe of oscillatory and vibratory molecu

freely moving system of interlacing centres of force, what we call colour and sound is there no more than this length of vibration of that. We have reached to a conception of that universe of m

that there may be finer and subtler differences of level between one term and another, and that

in which one moves by analysis or synthesis, if you go down for example from matter to atoms and centres of force and up to men and states and countries - if you will imagine the ideas lying in that manner - you will get the beginnings of my intention. But our instrument, our process of thinking, like a drawing before the discovery of perspective, appears to have difficulties with the third dimension, appears capable only of dealing with or r

experience and there is no more indisputable fact than man's freedom of will, unless it is his complete moral responsibility. But make only the least penetrating of scientific analy

ater the reasonableness and convenience of regarding the common-sense

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Contents

Introduction Part 1 Chapter 1 The Necessity for Metaphysics Part 1 Chapter 2 The Resumption of Metaphysical Enquiry Part 1 Chapter 3 The World of Fact Part 1 Chapter 4 Scepticism of the Instrument Part 1 Chapter 5 The Classificatory Assumption Part 1 Chapter 6 Empty Terms Part 1 Chapter 7 Negative Terms Part 1 Chapter 8 Logic Static and Life Kinetic Part 1 Chapter 9 Planes and Dialects of Thought Part 1 Chapter 10 Practical Conclusions from These Considerat
Part 1 Chapter 11 Beliefs
Part 1 Chapter 12 Summary
Part 2 Chapter 1 My Primary Act of Faith
Part 2 Chapter 2 On Using the Name of God
Part 2 Chapter 3 Free Will and Predestination
Part 2 Chapter 4 A Picture of the World of Men
Part 2 Chapter 5 The Problem of Motives the Real Problem of L
Part 2 Chapter 6 A Review of Motives
Part 2 Chapter 7 The Synthetic Motive
Part 2 Chapter 8 The Being of Mankind
Part 2 Chapter 9 Individuality an Interlude
Part 2 Chapter 10 The Mystic Element
Part 2 Chapter 11 The Synthesis
Part 2 Chapter 12 Of Personal Immortality
Part 2 Chapter 13 A Criticism of Christianity
Part 2 Chapter 14 Of Other Religions
Part 2 Chapter 15
Part 3 Chapter 1 Conduct Follows from Belief
Part 3 Chapter 2 What is Good
Part 3 Chapter 3 Socialism
Part 3 Chapter 4 A Criticism of Certain Forms of Socialism
Part 3 CHapter 5 Hate and Love
Part 3 Chapter 6 The Preliminary Social Duty
Part 3 Chapter 7 Wrong Ways of Living
Part 3 Chapter 8 Social Parasitism and Contemporary Injustice
Part 3 Chapter 9 The Case of the Wife and Mother
Part 3 Chapter 10 Associations
part 3 Chapter 11 Of an Organized Brotherhood
Part 3 Chapter 12 Concerning New Starts and New Religions
Part 3 Chapter 13 The Idea of the Church
Part 3 Chapter 14 Of Secession
Part 3 Chapter 15 A Dilemma
Part 3 Chapter 16 A Comment
Part 3 Chapter 17 War
Part 3 Chapter 18 War and Competition
Part 3 Chapter 19 Modern War
Part 3 Chapter 20 Of Abstinences and Disciplines
Part 3 Chapter 21
Part 3 Chapter 22 Democracy and Aristocracy
Part 3 CHapter 23 On Debts of Honour
Part 3 CHapter 24 The Idea of Justice
Part 3 Chapter 25 Of Love and Justice
Part 3 Chapter 26 The Weakness of Immaturity
Part 3 Chapter 27 Possibility of a New Etiquette
Part 3 Chapter 28 Sex
Part 3 Chapter 29 The Institution of Marriage
Part 3 Chapter 30 Conduct in Relation to the Thing that is
Part 3 Chapter 31 Conduct Towards Transgressors
Part 4 Chapter 1 Personal Love and Life
Part 4 Chapter 2 The Nature of Love
Part 4 Chapter 3 The Will to Love
Part 4 Chapter 4 Love and Death
Part 4 Chapter 5 The Consolation of Failure
Part 4 Chapter 6 The Last Confession
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