CONTENTS.

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I. ISSUES INVOLVED IN THE QUESTION TO BE DISCUSSED—WHENCE AND HOW WE GET THE IDEA OF GOD,[1]
II. GENERAL IDEA OF RELIGION—COMPARISON OF POLYTHEISM AND PANTHEISM WITH THEISM—THE THREE GREAT THEISTIC RELIGIONS COMPARED—NO RELIGIOUS PROGRESS BEYOND THEISM, [30]
III. THE NATURE, CONDITIONS, AND LIMITS OF THEISTIC PROOF,[59]
IV. NATURE IS BUT THE NAME FOR AN EFFECT WHOSE CAUSE IS GOD[96]
V. THE ARGUMENT FROM ORDER,[131]
VI. OBJECTIONS TO THE ARGUMENT FROM ORDER EXAMINED,[169]
VII. MORAL ARGUMENT—TESTIMONY OF CONSCIENCE AND HISTORY,[210]
VIII. CONSIDERATION OF OBJECTIONS TO THE DIVINE WISDOM, BENEVOLENCE, AND JUSTICE[233]
IX. A PRIORI THEISTIC PROOF,[264]
X. MERE THEISM INSUFFICIENT,[302]

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I. NATURAL AND REVEALED RELIGION,[323]
II. INFLUENCE OF RELIGION ON MORALITY,[329]
III. ETHICS OF RELIGIOUS INQUIRY,[335]
IV. TRADITIVE THEORY OF RELIGION,[338]
V. NORMAL DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIETY,[340]
VI. DEFINITION AND CLASSIFICATION BY THE HIGHEST TYPE,[342]
VII. PSYCHOLOGICAL NATURE OF RELIGION,[343]
VIII. ARGUMENT E CONSENSU GENTIUM,[348]
IX. THE THEISTIC EVIDENCE COMPLEX AND COMPREHENSIVE,[350]
X. INTUITION, FEELING, BELIEF, AND KNOWLEDGE IN RELIGION,[355]
XI. THE THEOLOGICAL INFERENCE FROM THE THEORY OF ENERGY,[359]
XII. THE HISTORY OF THE ÆTIOLOGICAL ARGUMENT,[364]
XIII. MATHEMATICS AND THE DESIGN ARGUMENT,[367]
XIV. ASTRONOMY AND THE DESIGN ARGUMENT,[369]
XV. CHEMISTRY AND THE DESIGN ARGUMENT,[373]
XVI. GEOLOGY, GEOGRAPHY, ETC., AND THE DESIGN ARGUMENT,[375]
XVII. THE ORGANIC KINGDOM AND DESIGN,[378]
XVIII. EVIDENCES OF DESIGN IN ORGANISMS,[380]
XIX. PSYCHOLOGY AND DESIGN,[383]
XX. HISTORY AND DESIGN,[386]
XXI. HISTORY OF THE TELEOLOGICAL ARGUMENT,[387]
XXII. CREATION AND EVOLUTION,[390]
XXIII. THEOLOGICAL INFERENCES FROM THE DOCTRINE OF SPONTANEOUS GENERATION,[394]
XXIV. DARWIN AND PALEY,[396]
XXV. KANT'S MORAL ARGUMENT,[397]
XXVI. DR SCHENKEL'S VIEW OF CONSCIENCE AS THE ORGAN OF RELIGION[400]
XXVII. CHALMERS AND ERSKINE ON THE ARGUMENT FROM CONSCIENCE,[401]
XXVIII. ASSOCIATIONIST THEORY OF THE ORIGIN OF CONSCIENCE,[403]
XXIX. CHALMERS AND BAIN ON THE PLEASURE OF MALEVOLENCE,[403]
XXX. HISTORY OF THE MORAL PROOF,[406]
XXXI. DEFECTS IN THE PHYSICAL WORLD,[413]
XXXII. NO BEST POSSIBLE CREATED SYSTEM,[417]
XXXIII. DEFECTS IN THE ORGANIC WORLD,[418]
XXXIV. EPICUREAN DILEMMA,[420]
XXXV. GOD AND DUTY,[422]
XXXVI. HISTORIES OF THE THEISTIC PROOFS,[423]
XXXVII. A PRIORI PROOF NOT PROOF FROM A CAUSE,[424]
XXXVIII. SOME A PRIORI ARGUMENTS,[425]