CONTENTS

The Mystery of Evil
I.The Serpent's Promise to the Woman[3]
II.The Pilgrim's Burden[8]
III.Manichæism and Calvinism[14]
IV.The Dramatic Unity of Nature[22]
V.What Conscious Life is made of[27]
VI.Without the Element of Antagonism there could be no Consciousness, and therefore no World[34]
VII.A Word of Caution[40]
VIII.The Hermit and the Angel[43]
IX.Man's Rise from the Innocence of Brutehood[48]
X.The Relativity of Evil[54]

The Cosmic Roots of Love and Self-Sacrifice
I.The Summer Field, and what it tells us[59]
II.Seeming Wastefulness of the Cosmic Process[65]
III.Caliban's Philosophy[72]
IV.Can it be that the Cosmic Process has no Relation to Moral Ends?[74]
V.First Stages in the Genesis of Man[80]
VI.The Central Fact in the Genesis of Man[86]
VII.The Chief Cause of Man's lengthened Infancy[88]
VIII.Some of its Effects[96]
IX.Origin of Moral Ideas and Sentiments[102]
X.The Cosmic Process exists purely for the Sake of Moral Ends[109]
XI.Maternity and the Evolution of Altruism[117]
XII.The Omnipresent Ethical Trend[127]

The Everlasting Reality of Religion
I.Deo erexit Voltaire[133]
II.The Reign of Law, and the Greek Idea of God[147]
III.Weakness of Materialism[152]
IV.Religion's First Postulate: the Quasi-Human God[163]
V.Religion's Second Postulate: the undying Human Soul[168]
VI.Religion's Third Postulate: the Ethical Significance of the Unseen World[171]
VII.Is the Substance of Religion a Phantom, or an Eternal Reality?[174]
VIII.The Fundamental Aspect of Life[177]
IX.How the Evolution of Senses expands the World[182]
X.Nature's Eternal Lesson is the Everlasting Reality of Religion[186]