The art of creation
Subtitle: essays on the self and its powers
By: by Edward Carpenter.
Publisher: G. Allen
Published: 1904
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
Subjects: Consciousness; Imagination
Other titles: Creation.
Notes: "Chapter II ... was originally given as an address ... chapters VIII and IX on 'The gods' ... in an altered form were published as an article in the Hibbert journal for Jan. 1904."--Pref.
Table of contents: title: Preface.; title: Preliminary.; title: The art of creation.; title: Matter and consciousness.; title: The three stages of consciousness.; title: The self and its affiliations.; title: Platonic ideas and heredity.; title: The gods as apparitions of the racelife.; title: The gods as dwelling in the physiological centres.; title: The devils and the idols.; title: Beauty and duty.; title: Creation.; title: Transformation.; title: Appendix: 1. The may-fly: a study in transformation.  2. Health, a conquest.  3. Evening in spring: a meditation.