Through Nature to God

Through Nature to God

John Fiske, american philosopher and historian (1842-1901)


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Table of Contents

THE ETHICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE UNSEEN WORLD

-01- About this book

-02- MOTTO

-03- DEDICATION

-04- PREFACE

-05- THE MYSTERY OF EVIL

-06- CHAPTER I. THE SERPENT'S PROMISE TO THE WOMAN

-07- CHAPTER II. THE PILGRIM'S BURDEN

-08- CHAPTER III. MANICHÆISM AND CALVINISM

-09- CHAPTER IV. THE DRAMATIC UNITY OF NATURE

-10- CHAPTER V. WHAT CONSCIOUS LIFE IS MADE OF

-11- CHAPTER VI. WITHOUT THE ELEMENT OF ANTAGONISM THERE COULD BE NO CONSCIOUSNESS, AND THEREFORE NO WORLD

-12- CHAPTER VII. A WORD OF CAUTION

-13- CHAPTER VIII. THE HERMIT AND THE ANGEL

-14- CHAPTER IX. MAN'S RISE FROM THE INNOCENCE OF BRUTEHOOD

-15- CHAPTER X. THE RELATIVITY OF EVIL

-16- THE COSMIC ROOTS OF LOVE AND SELF-SACRIFICE

-17- CHAPTER I. THE SUMMER FIELD, AND WHAT IT TELLS US

-18- CHAPTER II. SEEMING WASTEFULNESS OF THE COSMIC PROCESS

-19- CHAPTER III. CALIBAN'S PHILOSOPHY

-20- CHAPTER IV. CAN IT BE THAT THE COSMIC PROCESS HAS NO RELATION TO MORAL ENDS

-21- CHAPTER V. FIRST STAGES IN THE GENESIS OF MAN

-22- CHAPTER VI. THE CENTRAL FACT IN THE GENESIS OF MAN

-23- CHAPTER VII. THE CHIEF CAUSE OF MAN'S LENGTHENED INFANCY

-24- CHAPTER VIII. SOME OF ITS EFFECTS

-25- CHAPTER IX. ORIGIN OF MORAL IDEAS AND SENTIMENTS

-26- CHAPTER X. THE COSMIC PROCESS EXISTS PURELY FOR THE SAKE OF MORAL ENDS

-27- CHAPTER XI. MATERNITY AND THE EVOLUTION OF ALTRUISM

-28- CHAPTER XII. THE OMNIPRESENT ETHICAL TREND

-29- THE EVERLASTING REALITY OF RELIGION

-30- CHAPTER I. DEO EREXIT VOLTAIRE

-31- CHAPTER II. THE REIGN OF LAW, AND THE GREEK IDEA OF GOD

-32- CHAPTER III. WEAKNESS OF MATERIALISM

-33- CHAPTER IV. RELIGION'S FIRST POSTULATE - THE QUASI-HUMAN GOD

-34- CHAPTER V. RELIGIONS SECOND POSTULATE - THE UNDYING HUMAN SOUL

-36- CHAPTER VII. IS THE SUBSTANCE OF RELIGION A PHANTOM, OR AN ETERNAL REALITY

-37- CHAPTER VIII. THE FUNDAMENTAL ASPECT OF LIFE

-38- CHAPTER IX. HOW THE EVOLUTION OF SENSES EXPANDS THE WORLD

-39- CHAPTER X. NATURE'S ETERNAL LESSON IS THE EVERLASTING REALITY OF RELIGION