Through Nature to God
by John Fiske
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Chapters (190)(click to expand)
- THROUGH NATURE TO GOD
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- THE MYSTERY OF EVIL
- I The Serpent's Promise to the Woman
- Footnotes
- II The Pilgrim's Burden
- III Manichæism and Calvinism
- IV The Dramatic Unity of Nature
- V What Conscious Life is made of
- VI Without the Element of Antagonism there could be no Consciousness, and therefore no World
- VII A Word of Caution
- VIII The Hermit and the Angel
- IX Man's Rise from the Innocence of Brutehood
- Footnotes
- X The Relativity of Evil
- THE COSMIC ROOTS OF LOVE AND SELF-SACRIFICE
- I The Summer Field, and what it tells us
- II Seeming Wastefulness of the Cosmic Process
- III Caliban's Philosophy
- IV Can it be that the Cosmic Process has no Relation to Moral Ends?
- V First Stages in the Genesis of Man
- VI The Central Fact in the Genesis of Man
- VII The Chief Cause of Man's lengthened Infancy
- VIII Some of its Effects
- IX Origin of Moral Ideas and Sentiments
- X The Cosmic Process exists purely for the Sake of Moral Ends
- XI Maternity and the Evolution of Altruism
- XII The Omnipresent Ethical Trend
- THE EVERLASTING REALITY OF RELIGION
- I "Deo erexit Voltaire"
- II The Reign of Law, and the Greek Idea of God
- Footnotes
- III Weakness of Materialism
- IV Religion's First Postulate: the Quasi-Human God
- V Religions Second Postulate: the undying Human Soul
- VI Religions Third Postulate: the Ethical Significance of the Unseen World
- VII Is the Substance of Religion a Phantom, or an Eternal Reality?
- VIII The Fundamental Aspect of Life
- IX How the Evolution of Senses expands the World
- X Nature's Eternal Lesson is the Everlasting Reality of Religion
- L'ENVOI
- THE WRITINGS OF JOHN FISKE
- THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA
- OLD VIRGINIA AND HER NEIGHBOURS
- THE BEGINNINGS OF NEW ENGLAND
- THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
- THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE
- THE CRITICAL PERIOD OF AMERICAN HISTORY, 1783-1789
- A HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES FOR SCHOOLS
- CIVIL GOVERNMENT IN THE UNITED STATES
- OUTLINES OF COSMIC PHILOSOPHY
- DARWINISM, AND OTHER ESSAYS
- THE UNSEEN WORLD
- EXCURSIONS OF AN EVOLUTIONIST
- MYTHS AND MYTH-MAKERS
- THE DESTINY OF MAN
- THE IDEA OF GOD
- THROUGH NATURE TO GOD
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