This is Volume I of five in a series on Epistemology and Metaphysics. Originally published in 1865, this book offers the history of materialism and a criticism of its present importance in that period of time, presented in three parts.

Frederick Albert Lange with an introduction by Bertrand Russell.

Volume I: Materialism in Antiquity; The Period of Transition. The Seventeenth Century. Volume II: The Eighteenth Century; Modern Philosophy; The Natural Sciences. Volume III: The Natural Sciences- Continued; Man and the Soul; Morality and Religion.