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A Pluralistic Universe

by William James

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Lecture IV Concerning Fechner 131

Superhuman consciousness does not necessarily imply an absolute mind, 134. Thinness of contemporary absolutism, 135. The tone of Fechner’s empiricist pantheism contrasted with that of the rationalistic sort, 144. Fechner’s life, 145. His vision, the ‘daylight view,’ 150. His way of reasoning by analogy, 151. The whole universe animated, 152. His monistic formula is unessential, 153. The Earth-Soul, 156. Its differences from our souls, 160. The earth as an angel, 164. The Plant-Soul, 165. The logic used by Fechner, 168. His theory of immortality, 170. The ‘thickness’ of his imagination, 173. Inferiority of the ordinary transcendentalist pantheism, to his vision, 174.

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