On the Will in Nature

by Arthur Schopenhauer

On the Will in Nature: A Discussion of the Verifications through the Empirical Sciences which the Author's Philosophy Has Obtained since its Appearance  (1836)  by Arthur Schopenhauer, translated by Madame Karl Hillebrand

Über den Willen in der Natur, translated in 1903.

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

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