1. _Is the world created?_ There may or may not be a
beginning of the particular series of physical events
constituting our world. But, even if this series has a
beginning, this implies some previous existence which
has no beginning.
2. _Is the whole-time series infinite?_ Time must be
regarded as objective, but the 'antinomies' involved
in the nature of Time cannot be resolved, . . . . . . . . 90
3. _Are Spirits created or pre-existent?_ The close
connexion and correspondence between mind and body
makes for the former view. Difficulties of
pre-existence--heredity, etc., . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
4. _An Idealism based on Pre-existence without God_ is
open to the same objections and others. Such a system
provides no mind (_a_) in which and for which the whole
system exists, or (_b_) to effect the correspondence
between mind and body, or (_c_) to allow of a purpose
in the Universe; without this the world is not rational, . 96
5. _The human mind (i.e. consciousness) not apart of the
divine Consciousness_, though in the closest possible
dependence upon God. The Universe a Unity, but the
Unity is not that of Self-Consciousness, . . . . . . . . . 101
6. _There is no 'immediate' or 'intuitive' knowledge of
God_. Our knowledge is got by inference, like knowledge
of our friend's existence, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
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7. _Religion and Psychology_. It is impossible to base
Religion upon Psychology or 'religious experience'
without Metaphysics, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111