Is Life Worth Living?
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About This Book
I am about to attempt inquiring not sentimentally but with all calmness and sobriety into the true value of this human life of ours as tried by those tests of reality which the modern world is accepting and to ask dispassionately if it be really worth the living.' (Excerpt from Chapter 1)
Chapters (327)
- IS LIFE WORTH LIVING?
- WILLIAM HURRELL MALLOCK
- NEW YORK G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS 182 Fifth Avenue 1879
- I INSCRIBE THIS BOOK
- JOHN RUSKIN
- TO JOHN RUSKIN.
- CONTENTS
- NOTE.
- Is Life Worth Living?
- CHAPTER I.
- THE NEW IMPORT OF THE QUESTION.
- CHAPTER II.
- THE PRIZE OF LIFE.
- CHAPTER III.
- SOCIOLOGY AS THE FOUNDATION OF MORALITY.
- CHAPTER IV.
- GOODNESS AS ITS OWN REWARD.
- CHAPTER V.
- LOVE AS A TEST OF GOODNESS.
- CHAPTER VI.
- LIFE AS ITS OWN REWARD.
- CHAPTER VII.
- THE SUPERSTITION OF POSITIVISM.
- CHAPTER VIII.
- THE PRACTICAL PROSPECT.
- CHAPTER IX.
- THE LOGIC OF SCIENTIFIC NEGATION.
- CHAPTER X.
- MORALITY AND NATURAL THEISM.
- CHAPTER XI.
- THE HUMAN RACE AND REVELATION.
- CHAPTER XII.
- UNIVERSAL HISTORY AND THE CLAIMS OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH.
- CHAPTER XIII.
- BELIEF AND WILL.
- CURRENT DISCUSSION,
- A COLLECTION FROM THE CHIEF ENGLISH ESSAYS ON QUESTIONS OF THE TIME.
- G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS, 182 Fifth Avenue, New York.
- PUBLICATIONS OF G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS.
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