It amused me to see that almost every review of the "Destiny of Man" took pains to state that it was my Concord address "rewritten and expanded." Such trifles help one to understand the helter-skelter way in which more important things get said and believed. The "Destiny of Man" was printed exactly as it was delivered at Concord, without the addition, or subtraction, or alteration of a single word. The case is the same with the present work.
Petersham, September 6, 1885.
[CONTENTS.]
| I. | Difficulty of expressing the Idea of God so that it can be readily understood | [35] |
| II. | The Rapid Growth of Modern Knowledge | [46] |
| III. | Sources of the Theistic Idea | [62] |
| IV. | Development of Monotheism | [72] |
| V. | The Idea of God as immanent in the World | [81] |
| VI. | The Idea of God as remote from the World | [87] |
| VII. | Conflict between the Two Ideas, commonly misunderstood as a Conflict between Religion and Science | [97] |
| VIII. | Anthropomorphic Conceptions of God | [111] |
| IX. | The Argument from Design | [118] |
| X. | Simile of the Watch replaced by Simile of the Flower | [128] |
| XI. | The Craving for a Final Cause | [134] |
| XII. | Symbolic Conceptions | [140] |
| XIII. | The Eternal Source of Phenomena | [144] |
| XIV. | The Power that makes for Righteousness | [158] |
