On the Will in Nature

by Arthur Schopenhauer

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