TO AVOID unwieldiness of bulk this edition of the Fragments' is published in two volumes, instead of, as heretofore, in one. The first volume deals almost exclusively with the laws and phenomena of matter. The second trenches upon questions in which the phenomena of matter interlace more or less with those of mind. New Essays have been added, while old ones have been revised, and in part recast. To be clear, without being superficial, has been my aim throughout. In neither volume have I aspired to sit in the seat of the scornful, but rather to treat the questions touched upon with a tolerance, if not a reverence, befitting their difficulty and weight. Holding, as I do, the nebular hypothesis, I am logigally bound to deduce the life of the world from forces |