Matter, Life, Mind - Their Essence, Phenomena, and Relations, Examined With Reference to the Nature of Man, and the Problem of His Destiny #251022

His treatise is given to the public with the hope that it may serve, to some extent, as a check to the advancing tide of Materialism, and define, with some precision, the ground Vitalists should occupy in this great debate. Believing that the things and facts of nature are their own best interpreters, we have labored to shun the metaphysical aspects of the subject, and allow them to speak for themselves and for truth.