Excerpt from The Ways of Things: A Philosophy of Knowledge, Nature, and Value But in addition to the desire to make others philosophize, I have a more personal desire to win consideration for my own philosophy, its logic, and its ethics, and, even more, for those postulates on which its metaphysical hypotheses depend. These postulates are three: I. That consciousness is neither separate from material motion nor just an aspect of it, but is itself a high and special form of that same energy which manifests itself in matter and in life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.