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Cover -- The Unknowable: A Study In Nineteenth-century British Metaphysics -- Copyright -- Contents -- List Of Illustrations -- Introduction -- Part I: The Unconditioned -- 1: Sir William Hamilton -- 1.1 The Way Of 'learned Ignorance' -- 1.2 The Relativity Of Knowledge -- 1.3 The Law Of The Conditioned -- 1.4 Common Sense And The Existence Of The Unconditioned -- 1.5 Hamilton And Kant -- 1.6 Substance And Adjective -- 1.7 Space And Time -- 1.8 Causality -- 1.9 The Question Of Free Will -- 1.10 God -- 1.11 Concluding Remarks -- 2: Henry Longueville Mansel -- 2.1 The Philosophy Of Kant 2.2 Negative Reason: The Impossibility Of Thinking Of God -- 2.3 Positive Reason: Belief In The Existence Of God -- 2.4 Theology, Revelation, And Faith -- 2.5 Mill's Objections To Mansel -- 2.6 Space And Time -- 2.7 Substance, Mind, And Matter -- 2.8 Causality And Freedom -- 2.9 Concluding Remarks -- 3: Herbert Spencer -- 3.1 Spencer's Epistemology -- 3.2 The Religion Of The Unknowable -- 3.3 Science And The Unknowable -- 3.4 Space, Time, And Matter -- 3.5 Force And Causation -- 3.6 Spencer's Psychology -- 3.7 Concluding Remarks -- 4: Thomas Henry Huxley -- 4.1 Agnosticism And Metaphysics 4.2 Agnosticism And Epistemology -- 4.3 Huxley On God -- 4.4 Huxley On Causation -- 4.5 Huxley On The External World -- 4.6 Huxley On The Self -- 4.7 Evolution And Ethics -- Part Ii: Empiricist Objections -- 5: John Stuart Mill -- 5.1 Mill's Empiricism And His Attitude Towards The Unknowable -- 5.2 Mill On Time And Space -- 5.3 Mill On Matter (phenomenalism) -- 5.4 Mill On The Self -- 5.5 Mill On Causation -- 5.6 Mill On Free Will -- 5.7 Mill On Laws -- 5.8 Mill On God And Religion -- 6: Alexander Bain And George Croom Robertson -- 6.1 Alexander Bain -- 6.2 Bain's Empiricism -- 6.3 Time And Space 6.4 Phenomenalism And The External World -- 6.5 Causation, Uniformity, And Force -- 6.6 The Self, The Mind-body Relation, And Human Freedom -- 6.7 Things-in-themselves -- 6.8 George Croom Robertson -- 6.9 Meth