The System of Nature - Volume I

The System of Nature - Volume I

Baron d'Holbach , french-german author, philosopher, encyclopedist and a prominent figure in the French Enlightenment (1723-1789)


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Table of Contents

-01- About this book

-02- INTRODUCTION

-03- PREFACE

-04- PART I. LAWS OF NATURE

-05- CHAPTER I. NATURE AND HER LAWS

-06- CHAPTER II. OF MOTION AND ITS ORIGIN

-07- CHAPTER III. OF MATTER

-08- CHAPTER IV. LAWS OF MOTION COMMON TO EVERY BEING OF NATURE

-09- CHAPTER V. ORDER AND CONFUSION

-10- CHAPTER VI. MORAL AND PHYSICAL DISTINCTIONS OF MAN

-11- CHAPTER VII. THE SOUL AND THE SPIRITUAL SYSTEM

-12- CHAPTER VIII. THE INTELLECTUAL FACULTIES DERIVED FROM THE FACULTY OF FEELING

-13- CHAPTER IX. THE DIVERSITY OF THE INTELLECTUAL FACULTIES

-14- CHAPTER X. THE SOUL DOES NOT DERIVE ITS IDEAS FROM ITSELF

-15- CHAPTER XI. OF THE SYSTEM OF MAN'S FREE AGENCY

-16- CHAPTER XII. AN EXAMINATION OF THE OPINION WHICH PRETENDS THAT THE SYSTEM OF FATALISM IS DANGEROUS.

-17- CHAPTER XIII. OF THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL

-18- CHAPTER XIV. EDUCATION, MORALS, AND THE LAWS SUFFICE TO RESTRAIN MAN

-19- CHAPTER XV. OF MAN'S TRUE INTEREST

-20- CHAPTER XVI. THE ERRORS OF MAN, UPON WHAT CONSTITUTES HAPPINESS

-21- CHAPTER XVII. THOSE IDEAS WHICH ARE TRUE