Through Nature To God

About this eBook

Author

Fiske, John, 1842-1901

Title

Through Nature to God

Credits

Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Louise Pattison and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

BL: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Religion: General, Miscellaneous and Atheism

Subject

Theism

Category

Text

eBook-No.

34716

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34716

Release Date

December 22, 2010

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THROUGH NATURE TO GOD
2. 2.PREFACE
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.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
5. 5.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
6. 6.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
7. 7.L'ENVOI
8. 8.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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