On the Will in Nature

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On the Will in Nature: A Discussion of the Verifications through the Empirical Sciences which the Author's Philosophy Has Obtained since its Appearance by Arthur Schopenhauer , translated by Madame Karl Hillebrand

Über den Willen in der Natur, translated in 1903.

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[edit] Motto

I spun, on the loom of time, my web:

They held it to be not worth looking at;

Yet everything makes progress openly in time.

Aeschylus, Prometheus, 214 f., 981

[edit] Contents

• Preface to the Second Edition

• Editor's Preface to the Third Edition

• Editor's Preface to the Fourth Edition

• Introduction

• Physiology and Pathology

• Comparative anatomy

• Physiology of Plants

• Physical Astronomy

• Linguistic

• Animal Magnetism and Magic

• Sinology

• Reference to Ethics

• Conclusion