The question, What are the essential features of Monism? was brought home
to me when I read in the last number of _The Monist_ the critical remarks
made with reference to the new edition of my “Anthropogeny.” I shall
here endeavor briefly to draw up the outlines of my conception of the
world in a manner which will indicate the most characteristic features
of my views. Thus both the agreements with and the divergences from the
position editorially upheld in _The Monist_ will plainly appear.
As is the case with the majority of philosophical differences, so also
in the present instance I find that the divergences which exhibit
themselves in our respective unitary conceptions of the world are in part
only apparent and in part occasioned by the divergent significances of
our fundamental ideas. But this will, perhaps, be made clearer by the
following methodically arranged eight theses.