The Philosophy of Natural Religion
by William Jackson
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About this eBook
- Author
- Jackson, William, 1817?-1891?
- Title
- The Philosophy of Natural Theology An Essay in confutation of the scepticism of the present day
- Credits
- Produced by Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe, Les Galloway and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- BL: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Religion: General, Miscellaneous and Atheism
- Subject
- Religion -- Philosophy
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 47314
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/47314
- Release Date
- November 8, 2014
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE PHILOSOPHY OF NATURAL THEOLOGY.
- 2.PREFACE.
- 3.CONTENTS.
- 4.CHAPTER I. — ADDITIONAL NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS TO CHAPTER I. — A.—THE RIGHT HON. W. E. GLADSTONE AND OTHERS ON MODERN SCEPTICISM. — B.—ON CORRUPTION OF THE JUDGMENT BY MISDIRECTED MORAL SENTIMENTS. — C.—ON SPECIAL PLEADING IN HISTORY AND MORALS. — D.—ON THE METHOD EMPLOYED IN THIS ESSAY. — E.—ON THE EFFECT OF CONSILIENT PROOFS.
- 5.CHAPTER II. — ADDITIONAL NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS TO CHAPTER II. — A.—ON THE ABSTRACT REASONINGS INVOLVED IN NATURAL THEOLOGY. — B.—ON THE PHRASE "DESIGN IMPLIES A DESIGNER." — C.—HUME ON THE ANALOGIES OF ART AND NATURE. — D.—THE PANTHEISTIC CONSEQUENCES CHARGED UPON PHYSICAL SPECULATIONS. — E.—THE EXTENT AND DIVISIONS OF THE SCIENCE OF NATURAL THEOLOGY. — F.—ON TELEOLOGY.
- 6.CHAPTER III. — ADDITIONAL NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS TO CHAPTER III. — A.—ACCOUNT OF SOME THEORIES RESPECTING OUR PERSONAL IDENTITY. — B.—EXTRACTS FROM POPULAR LECTURES, BY PROFESSOR HELMHOLTZ, ON THE RECENT PROGRESS OF THE THEORY OF VISION. — C.—HELMHOLTZ ON SPECIALTIES OF SENSIBILITY. — D.—POPULAR ACCOUNT OF PURE IDEALISM WITH CRITICAL REMARKS. — E.—ON THE RELATIONS OF FACT AND THEORY. — F.—ON THE "UNKNOWABLE." — G.—MR. J. S. MILL AS AN INDEPENDENT MORALIST. — H.—ARCHEBIOSIS, OR SPONTANEOUS GENERATION. — I.—ON MATERIALISM.
- 7.CHAPTER IV.
- 8.CHAPTER V. — ADDITIONAL NOTE. — ON THE DOCTRINE OF CHANCES APPLIED TO THE STRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE EYE.
- 9.CHAPTER VI.
- 10.CHAPTER VII. — FOOTNOTES:
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