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CONTENTS

BOOK I THE DEFINITION OF MATTER
CHAPTER I Introduction
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The distinction between mind and matter—Knowable not homogeneous—Criterion employed, enumeration not concepts	3
CHAPTER II Our Knowledge of External Objects only Sensation
Modern theories of matter—Outer world only known to us by our sensations—Instances Mill's approval of proposition, and its defects—Nervous system only intermediary between self and outer world—The great X of Matter—Nervous system does not give us true image—Müller's law of specificity of the nerves—The nervous system itself a sensation—Relations of sensation with the unknowable the affair of metaphysics	10