MARSHALL, C. / B. LIGHTMAN / R. , EDS.: THE PAPERS OF THE METAPHYSICAL SOCIETY, 1869-1880. A CRITICAL EDITION, 3 VOLS.

Volume I Introduction Alfred Tennyson: Poetic Prologue to the 2 June 1869 meeting, "The Higher Pantheism" 1: Richard Holt Hutton: 2 June 1869, "On Mr. H. Spencer's Theory of the Gradual Transformation of Utilitarian into Intuitive Morality by Hereditary Descent" 2: William B. Carpenter: 14 July 1869, "The Common Sense Philosophy of Causation" 3: T. H. Huxley: 17 November 1869, "The Views of Hume, Kant, and Whately upon the Logical Basis of the Doctrine of the Immortality of the Soul" 4: : 15 December 1869, "On Memory as an Intuitive Faculty" 5: John Lubbock: 12 January 1870, "The Moral Condition of Savages" 6: Roden Noel: 9 February 1870, "What is Matter?" 7: John D. Dalgairns: 16 March 1870, "On the Theory of a Soul" 8: Henry Sidgwick: 27 April 1870, "The Verification of Beliefs" 9: : 15 June 1870, "Is There Any 'Axiom of Causality'? " 10: : 13 July 1870, "The Relativity of Knowledge" 11: T. H. Huxley: 8 November 1870,"Has a Frog a Soul; and of What Nature is That Soul, Supposing it to Exist?" 12: : 13 December 1870, "On the Emotion of Conviction" 13: Henry Edward Manning: 11 January 1871, "What is the Relation of the Will to Thought?" 14: Alexander Grant: 8 February 1871, "On the Nature and Origin of the Moral Ideas" 15: Arthur Russell: 14 March 1871, "On the Absolute" 16: : 25 April 1871, "Theorem: The Range of Intellectual Conception is Proportioned to the Rank in Animated Life" 17: : 16 May 1871, "Evidence" 18: Richard Holt Hutton: 13 June 1871, "Mr. on Moral Intuitions and Moral Sentiments" 19: Charles J. Ellicott: 11 July 1871, "What is Death?" 20: Frederick Dennison Maurice: 21 November 1871, "On the Words 'Nature;' 'Natural,' and 'Supernatural'" 21: Arthur Penrhyn Stanley: 19 December 1871, "Do We Form Our Opinions on External Authority?" 22: William B. Carpenter: 17 January 1872, "What is Common Sense?" 23: William Rathbone Greg: 13 February 1872, " Wherein Consists the Special Beauty of Imperfection and Decay?" 24: James Antony Froude: 12 March 1872, "Are Numbers and Geometrical Figures Real Things?" 25: Mark Pattison: 9 April 1872, "The Arguments for a Future Life" 26: Henry Edward Manning: 14 May 1872, "That Legitimate Authority is an Evidence of Truth" 27: John D. Dalgairns: 11 June 1872, "Is God Unknowable?" 28: Frederic Harrison: 9 July 1872, "On the Supposed Necessity of Certain Metaphysical Problems" 29: Shadworth Hodgson: 12 November 1872, "Five Idols of the Theatre" 30: William George Ward: 10 December 1872, "Can Experience Prove the Uniformity of Nature?"

Volume II 31: Arthur Russell: 14 January 1873, "Darwinians and Idealists" 32: John Ruskin: 11 February 1873, "The Nature and Authority of Miracle" 33: Henry Wentworth Acland: 11 March 1873, "Faith and Knowledge" 34: Roden Noel: 8 April 1873, "On Will" 35: George Croom Robertson: 13 May 1873, "The Action of So Called Motives" 36: Henry Edward Manning: 10 June 1873, "A Diagnosis and Prescription" 37: Richard Holt Hutton: 8 July 1873, "Euthanasia" 38: Charles J. Ellicott: 8 July 1873, "Oral Communication on Euthanasia" 39: James Hinton: 18 November 1873, "On the Relation of the Organic and Inorganic Worlds" 40: Henry Sidgwick: 16 December 1873, "Utilitarianism" 41: Arthur Russell: 13 January 1874, "The Speculative Method" 42: Walter Bagehot: 10 February 1874, "The Metaphysical Basis of Toleration" 43: : 10 March 1874, "Some Thoughts on Necessary Truth" 44: Richard Holt Hutton: 14 April 1874, "Latent Thought" 45: John D. Dalgairns: 12 May 1874, "The Personality of God" 46: W. K. Clifford: 9 June 1874, "On the Nature of Things in Themselves" 47: William George Ward: 14 July 1874, "A Reply on Necessary Truth?" 48: William B. Carpenter: 17 November 1874, "On the Doctrine of Human Automatism" 49: William Rathbone Greg: 8 December 1874, "Can Truths be Apprehended Which Could not Have Been Discovered?" 50: James Fitzjames Stephen: 12 January 1875, "On a Theory of Dr. Newman's as to Believing in Mysteries" 51: William Thomson: 9 February 1875, "Will and Responsibility" 52: W. K. Clifford: 9 March 1875, "The Scientific Basis of Morals" 53: William Connor Magee: 13 April 1875, "Hospitals for Incurables Considered from a Moral Point of View" 54: John Ruskin: 11 May 1875, "Theorem: Social Policy Must Be Based on the Scientific Principle of Natural Selection" 55: Arthur Russell: 8 June 1875, "The Right of Man over the Lower Animals" 56: Henry Sidgwick: 13 July 1875, "The Theory of Evolution in its Application to Practice" 57: James Fitzjames Stephen: 9 November 1875, "Remarks on the Proof of Miracles" 58: William B. Carpenter: 14 December 1875, "On the Fallacies of Testimony in Relation to the Supernatural" 59: T. H. Huxley: 11 January 1876, "The Evidence of the Miracle of the Resurrection" 60: Shadworth Hodgson: 14 March 1876, "The Pre-Suppositions of Miracles" 61: W. K. Clifford: 11 April 1876, "The Ethics of Belief" 62: Arthur Russell: 9 May1876, "The Persistence of the Religious Feeling" 63: St George Jackson Mivart: 13 June 1876, "What is the Good of Truth?" 64: James Fitzjames Stephen: 11 July 1876, "What is a Lie?"

Volume III 65: George Croom Robertson: 14 November 1876, "How Do We Come by Our Knowledge?" 66: James Fitzjames Stephen: 12 December 1876, "The Effect of a Decline of Religious Belief on Morality" 67: Frederic Harrison: 9 January 1877, "The Soul before and after Death" Part I 68: Henry Edward Manning: 13 February 1877, "The Soul before and after Death" Part II 69: James Fitzjames Stephen: 13 March 1877, "Authority in Matters of Opinion" 70: James Martineau: 17 April 1877, "The Supposed Conflict between Efficient and Final Causation" 71: St George Jackson Mivart: 8 May 1877, "Matter and Force" 72: : 12 June 1877, "Belief and Evidence" 73: Arthur Russell: 10 July 1877, "On Ideas as a Force" 74: Richard Holt Hutton: 13 November 1877, "On the Relation of Evidence to Conviction" 75: : 11 December 1877, "Various Definitions of Materialism" 76: Henry Sidgwick: 15 January 1878, "The Relation of Psychogony to Metaphysics and Ethics" 77: Mark Pattison: 12 February 1878, "Double Truth" 78: Matthew P. W. Boulton: 9 April 1878, "Has a Metaphysical Society any Raison d'etre?" 79: William Connor Magee: 11 June 1878, "The Ethics of Persecution" 80: John Charles Bucknill: 9 July 1878, "The Limits of Philanthropy" 81: Shadworth Hodgson: 12 November 1878, "Is Monism Tenable?" 82: Richard Holt Hutton: 17 December 1878, "Is 'Lapsed Intelligence' a Probable Origin for Complex Animal Instincts?" 83: Henry Sidgwick: 14 January 1879, "Incoherence of Empirical Philosophy" 84: James Fitzjames Stephen: 11 February 1879, "On the Utility of Truth" 85: Leslie Stephen: 11 March 1879, "The Uniformity of Nature" 86: St George Jackson Mivart: 8 April 1879, "The Religion of Emotion" 87: Henry Edward Manning: 27 May 1879, "The Objective Certainty of the Immaterial World" 88: Frederic Harrison: 10 June 1879, "The Social Factor in Psychology" 89: Henry Edward Manning: 25 November 1879, "What is Philosophy?" 90: Richard Holt Hutton: 9 December 1879, "Is Causation or Power in Nature a Reality, or a Mere Anthropomorphic Fancy?" 91: William Gull: 13 January 1880, "What Are the Elements of a Sensation?" 92: Henry Sidgwick: 10 February 1880, "The Scope of Metaphysics" 93: Frederick Pollock: 9 March 1880, "Generic and Symbolic Images" 94: Joseph Raymond Gasquet: 13 April 1880, "The Relation of Metaphysics to the Rest of Philosophy" 95: Charles Barnes Upton: 11 May 1880, "The Recent Phase of the Free-Will Controversy" Biographical Register of the Members of the Metaphysical Society Biographical Index