most learned members." Personal life In May 1876, Barratt married Dorothea (née Davis), the sister of an old school friend. They had one child together. Works Physical Ethics Physical Ethics is described as "a most remarkable performance for a youth of twenty-four." The key theory of the book is the unity of all knowledge and the necessity of bringing ethics into harmony with literary power. The theory resembles the work of Herbert Spencer, but at certain times diverges. Physical Metempiric Baratt's Physical Metempiric was left in a "very imperfect state." In it, Barratt starts from the idea that every physical state is the symbol of a state of consciousness, and argues that feeling is not the effect but the cause of motion. It leads to a system of monadism comparable to Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz's doctrine and theories such as William Kingdon Clifford's 'mindstuff'. Barratt's philosophy has been described as a form of panpsychism. References External links Physical Ethics on the Internet Archive Physical Metempiric on the Internet Archive 1844 births 1881 deaths 19th-century British philosophers 19th-century English writers Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford Alumni of the University of Oxford English barristers Panpsychism People educated at Rugby School People educated at Sandbach School Writers from Manchester