Volume I
Introduction
Further reading
Preliminary note on editorial practices
Note on the illustrations
Poetic Prologue to the 2 June 1869 meeting, "The Higher Pantheism", Alfred Tennyson
1. 2 June 1869, "On Mr. H. Spencer's Theory of the Gradual Transformation of Utilitarian into Intuitive Morality by Hereditary Descent", Richard Holt Hutton
2. 14 July 1869, "The Common Sense Philosophy of Causation", William B. Carpenter
3. 17 November 1869, "The Views of Hume, Kant, and Whately upon the Logical Basis of the Doctrine of the Immortality of the Soul", T. H. Huxley
4. 15 December 1869, "On Memory as an Intuitive Faculty", William George Ward
5. 12 January 1870, "The Moral Condition of Savages", John Lubbock
6. 9 February 1870, "What is Matter?", Roden Noel
7. 16 March 1870, "On the Theory of a Soul", John D. Dalgairns
8. 27 April 1870, "The Verification of Beliefs", Henry Sidgwick
9. 15 June 1870, "Is There Any 'Axiom of Causality'? ", James Martineau
10. 13 July 1870, "The Relativity of Knowledge", Frederic Harrison
11. 8 November 1870,"Has a Frog a Soul; and of What Nature is That Soul, Supposing it to Exist?", T. H. Huxley
12. 13 December 1870, "On the Emotion of Conviction", Walter Bagehot
13. 11 January 1871, "What is the Relation of the Will to Thought?", Henry Edward Manning
14. 8 February 1871, "On the Nature and Origin of the Moral Ideas", Alexander Grant
15. 14 March 1871, "On the Absolute", Arthur Russell
16. 25 April 1871, "Theorem: The Range of Intellectual Conception is Proportioned to the Rank in Animated Life", John Ruskin
17. 16 May 1871, "Evidence", James Anthony Froude
18. 13 June 1871, "Mr. Herbert Spencer on Moral Intuitions and Moral Sentiments", Richard Holt Hutton
19. 11 July 1871, "What is Death?", Charles J. Ellicott
20. 21 November 1871, "On the Words 'Nature;' 'Natural,' and 'Supernatural'", Frederick Dennison Maurice
21. 19 December 1871, "Do We Form Our Opinions on External Authority?", Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
22. 17 January 1872, "What is Common Sense?", William B. Carpenter
23. 13 February 1872, " Wherein Consists the Special Beauty of Imperfection and Decay?", William Rathbone Greg
24. 12 March 1872, "Are Numbers and Geometrical Figures Real Things?", James Antony Froude
25. 9 April 1872, "The Arguments for a Future Life", Mark Pattison
26. 14 May 1872, "That Legitimate Authority is an Evidence of Truth", Henry Edward Manning
27. 11 June 1872, "Is God Unknowable?", John D. Dalgairns
28. 9 July 1872, "On the Supposed Necessity of Certain Metaphysical Problems", Frederic Harrison
29. 12 November 1872, "Five Idols of the Theatre", Shadworth Hodgson
30. 10 December 1872, "Can Experience Prove the Uniformity of Nature?", William George Ward
Volume II
31. 14 January 1873, "Darwinians and Idealists", Arthur Russell
32. 11 February 1873, "The Nature and Authority of Miracle", John Ruskin
33. 11 March 1873, "Faith and Knowledge", Henry Wentworth Acland
34. 8 April 1873, "On Will", Roden Noel
35. 13 May 1873, "The Action of So Called Motives", George Croom Robertson
36. 10 June 1873, "A Diagnosis and Prescription", Henry Edward Manning
37. 8 July 1873, "Euthanasia", Richard Holt Hutton
38. 8 July 1873, "Oral Communication on Euthanasia", Charles J. Ellicott
39. 18 November 1873, "On the Relation of the Organic and Inorganic Worlds", James Hinton
40. 16 December 1873, "Utilitarianism", Henry Sidgwick
41. 13 January 1874, "The Speculative Method", Arthur Russell
42. 10 February 1874, "The Metaphysical Basis of Toleration", Walter Bagehot
43. 10 March 1874, "Some Thoughts on Necessary Truth", James Fitzjames Stephen
44. 14 April 1874, "Latent Thought", Richard Holt Hutton
45. 12 May 1874, "The Personality of God", John D. Dalgairns
46. 9 June 1874, "On the Nature of Things in Themselves", W. K. Clifford
47. 14 July 1874, "A Reply on Necessary Truth?", William George Ward
48. 17 November 1874, "On the Doctrine of Human Automatism", William B. Carpenter
49. 8 December 1874, "Can Truths be Apprehended Which Could not Have Been Discovered?", William Rathbone Greg
50. 12 January 1875, "On a Theory of Dr. Newman's as to Believing in Mysteries", James Fitzjames Stephen
51. 9 February 1875, "Will and Responsibility", William Thomson
52. 9 March 1875, "The Scientific Basis of Morals", W. K. Clifford
53. 13 April 1875, "Hospitals for Incurables Considered from a Moral Point of View", William Connor Magee
54. 11 May 1875, "Theorem: Social Policy Must Be Based on the Scientific Principle of Natural Selection", John Ruskin
55. 8 June 1875, "The Right of Man over the Lower Animals", Arthur Russell
56. 13 July 1875, "The Theory of Evolution in its Application to Practice", Henry Sidgwick
57. 9 November 1875, "Remarks on the Proof of Miracles", James Fitzjames Stephen
58. 14 December 1875, "On the Fallacies of Testimony in Relation to the Supernatural", William B. Carpenter
59. 11 January 1876, "The Evidence of the Miracle of the Resurrection", T. H. Huxley
60. 14 March 1876, "The Pre-Suppositions of Miracles", Shadworth Hodgson
61. 11 April 1876, "The Ethics of Belief", W. K. Clifford
62. 9 May1876, "The Persistence of the Religious Feeling", Arthur Russell
63. 13 June 1876, "What is the Good of Truth?", St George Jackson Mivart
64. 11 July 1876, "What is a Lie?", James Fitzjames Stephen
Volume III
65. 14 November 1876, "How Do We Come by Our Knowledge?", George Croom Robertson
66. 12 December 1876, "The Effect of a Decline of Religious Belief on Morality", James Fitzjames Stephen
67. 9 January 1877, "The Soul before and after Death" Part I, Frederic Harrison
68. 13 February 1877, "The Soul before and after Death" Part II, Henry Edward Manning
69. 13 March 1877, "Authority in Matters of Opinion", James Fitzjames Stephen
70. 17 April 1877, "The Supposed Conflict between Efficient and Final Causation", James Martineau
71. 8 May 1877, "Matter and Force", St George Jackson Mivart
72. 12 June 1877, "Belief and Evidence", Leslie Stephen
73. 10 July 1877, "On Ideas as a Force", Arthur Russell
74. 13 November 1877, "On the Relation of Evidence to Conviction", Richard Holt Hutton
75. 11 December 1877, "Various Definitions of Materialism", John Morley
76. 15 January 1878, "The Relation of Psychogony to Metaphysics and Ethics", Henry Sidgwick
77. 12 February 1878, "Double Truth", Mark Pattison
78. 9 April 1878, "Has a Metaphysical Society any Raison d'etre?", Matthew P. W. Boulton
79. 11 June 1878, "The Ethics of Persecution", William Connor Magee
80. 9 July 1878, "The Limits of Philanthropy", John Charles Bucknill
81. 12 November 1878, "Is Monism Tenable?", Shadworth Hodgson
82. 17 December 1878, "Is 'Lapsed Intelligence' a Probable Origin for Complex Animal Instincts?", Richard Holt Hutton
83. 14 January 1879, "Incoherence of Empirical Philosophy", Henry Sidgwick
84. 11 February 1879, "On the Utility of Truth", James Fitzjames Stephen
85. 11 March 1879, "The Uniformity of Nature", Leslie Stephen
86. 8 April 1879, "The Religion of Emotion", St George Jackson Mivart
87. 27 May 1879, "The Objective Certainty of the Immaterial World", Henry Edward Manning
88. 10 June 1879, "The Social Factor in Psychology", Frederic Harrison
89. 25 November 1879, "What is Philosophy?", Henry Edward Manning
90. 9 December 1879, "Is Causation or Power in Nature a Reality, or a Mere Anthropomorphic Fancy?", Richard Holt Hutton
91. 13 January 1880, "What Are the Elements of a Sensation?", William Gull
92. 10 February 1880, "The Scope of Metaphysics", Henry Sidgwick
93. 9 March 1880, "Generic and Symbolic Images", Frederick Pollock
94. 13 April 1880, "The Relation of Metaphysics to the Rest of Philosophy", Joseph Raymond Gasquet
95. 11 May 1880, "The Recent Phase of the Free-Will Controversy", Charles Barnes Upton
Biographical Register of the Members of the Metaphysical Society
Biographical Index
Index