The Bible of nature
BY FELIX L. OSWALD.
“ Light is help from Heaven. ”—G. E. Lessing.
New York: THE TRUTH SEEKER COMPANY, 28 LAFAYETTE PLACE.
Copyrighted, By Felix L. Oswald, 1888.
TO THE MEMORY OF BENEDICT SPINOZA, THIS WORK IS REVERENTLY DEDICATED BY THE AUTHOR.
PAGE.
PHYSICAL MAXIMS.
MENTAL MAXIMS.
MORAL MAXIMS.
OBJECTIVE MAXIMS.
From the dawn of authentic history to the second century of our chronological era the nations of antiquity were beguiled by the fancies of supernatural religions. For fifteen hundred years the noblest nations of the Middle Ages were tortured by the inanities of an antinatural religion. The time has come to found a Religion of Nature.
That dynasty of scamp-gods was, at last, forced to abdicate, but only to yield their throne to a celestial Phalaris, a torture-god who cruelly punished the gratification of the most natural instincts, and foredoomed a vast plurality of his children to an eternity of horrid and hopeless torments. Every natural enjoyment was denounced as sinful. Every natural blessing was vilified as a curse in disguise. Mirth is the sunshine of the human mind, the loveliest impulse of life’s truest children; yet the apostle of Antinaturalism promised his heaven to the gloomy world-despiser. “Blessed are they that mourn.” “If any man will come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily.” “Be afflicted, and mourn and weep; let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to heaviness.” “Woe unto you that laugh.” “If any man come to me and hate not his father and mother, his wife and children, his brothers and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.”
Felix L. Oswald
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CONTENTS.
I.—PHYSICAL MAXIMS.
A.—LESSONS OF INSTINCT.
B.—REWARDS OF CONFORMITY.
C.—PERVERSION.
D.—PENALTIES OF NEGLECT.
E.—REDEMPTION.
A.—LESSONS OF INSTINCT.
B.—REWARDS OF CONFORMITY.
C.—PERVERSION.
D.—PENALTIES OF NEGLECT.
E.—REDEMPTION.
A.—LESSONS OF INSTINCT.
B.—REWARDS OF CONFORMITY.
C.—PERVERSION.
D.—PENALTIES OF NEGLECT.
E.—REFORM.
A.—LESSONS OF INSTINCT.
B.—REWARDS OF CONFORMITY.
C.—PERVERSION.
D.—PENALTIES OF NEGLECT.
E.—REFORM.
A.—LESSONS OF INSTINCT.
B.—REWARDS OF CONFORMITY.
C.—PERVERSION.
D.—PENALTIES OF NEGLECT.
E.—REFORM.
II.—MENTAL MAXIMS.
A.—LESSONS OF INSTINCT.
B.—REWARDS OF CONFORMITY.
C.—PERVERSION.
D.—PENALTIES OF NEGLECT.
E.—REFORM.
A.—LESSONS OF INSTINCT.
B.—REWARDS OF CONFORMITY.
C.—PERVERSION.
D.—PENALTIES OF NEGLECT.
E.—REFORM.
A.—LESSONS OF INSTINCT.
B.—REWARDS OF CONFORMITY.
C.—PERVERSION.
D.—PENALTIES OF NEGLECT.
E.—REWARDS.
A.—LESSONS OF INSTINCT.
B.—REWARDS OF CONFORMITY.
C.—PERVERSION.
D.—PENALTIES OF NEGLECT.
E.—REFORM.
A.—LESSONS OF INSTINCT.
B.—REWARDS OF CONFORMITY.
C.—PERVERSION.
D.—PENALTIES OF NEGLECT.
E.—REFORM.
III.—MORAL MAXIMS.
A.—LESSONS OF INSTINCT.
B.—REWARDS OF CONFORMITY.
C.—PERVERSION.
D.—PENALTIES OF NEGLECT.
E.—REFORM.
A.—LESSONS OF INSTINCT.
B.—REWARDS OF CONFORMITY.
C.—PERVERSION.
D.—PENALTIES OF NEGLECT.
E.—REFORM.
A.—LESSONS OF INSTINCT.
B.—REWARDS OF CONFORMITY.
C.—PERVERSION.
D.—PENALTIES OF NEGLECT.
E.—REFORM.
A.—LESSONS OF INSTINCT.
B.—REWARDS OF CONFORMITY.
C.—PERVERSION.
D.—PENALTIES OF NEGLECT.
E.—REFORM.
A.—LESSONS OF INSTINCT.
B.—REWARDS OF CONFORMITY.
C.—PERVERSION.
D.—PENALTIES OF NEGLECT.
E.—REFORM.
IV—OBJECTIVE MAXIMS.
A.—LESSONS OF INSTINCT.
B.—REWARDS OF CONFORMITY.
C.—PERVERSION.
D.—PENALTIES OF NEGLECT.
E.—REFORM.
A.—LESSONS OF INSTINCT.
B.—REWARDS OF CONFORMITY.
C.—PERVERSION.
D.—PENALTIES OF NEGLECT.
E.—REFORM.
A.—LESSONS OF INSTINCT.
B.—REWARDS OF CONFORMITY.
C.—PERVERSION.
D.—PENALTIES OF NEGLECT.
E.—REFORM.
A.—LESSONS OF INSTINCT.
B.—REWARDS OF CONFORMITY.
C.—PERVERSION.
D.—PENALTIES OF NEGLECT.
E.—REFORM.
A.—LESSONS OF INSTINCT.
B.—REWARDS OF CONFORMITY.
C.—PERVERSION.
D.—PENALTIES OF NEGLECT.
E.—REFORM.
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