Oxford,
Nov., 1874.
[CONTENTS.]
| CHAP. | PAGES | |
|---|---|---|
| [I].— | Introductory: Motives of Essay—Division into Chapters—Method of Study—Consilient Proofs | [1]-18 |
| Additional Notes and Illustrations | [18]-39 | |
| [II].— | Philosophy of Design: Hostile Criticisms examined—Explanations and Restatements | [41]-82 |
| Additional Notes and Illustrations | [83]-138 | |
| [III].— | Conditions of Human Knowledge: Its Disabilities and First Principles—Idealism—Positivism—Materialism—We must accept ultimate Truths | [139]-181 |
| Additional Notes and Illustrations | [182]-248 | |
| [IV].— | Beliefs of Reason: Principle of Induction—Theism—Confirmations and Illustrations | [249]-289 |
| [V].— | Production and its Law: Conditions Of Activity—Will and Reason in Contrast with Materialism and Mechanism—Creative Mind characterised by visible Products | [291]-348 |
| Additional Note | [349] | |
| [VI].— | Causation: Limits of Physical Law—The Beginning—Cause and Will—Miracles | [351]-373 |
| [VII].— | Responsibility: Right and Wrong—A Future State—Supreme Will and Personality—Possible Relations of the Divine Being with Mankind—Expectation of Supernatural Aids to Knowledge and Practice—The Balance | [375]-396 |
| L'Envoy | [396]-398 | |
LIST OF
ADDITIONAL NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS.
| PAGE | |
|---|---|
| The Right Honourable W. E. Gladstone and others on Modern Scepticism | [19] |
| On Corruption of the Judgment by misdirected Moral Sentiments | [28] |
| Special Pleading in History and Morals | [29] |
| The Method employed throughout this Essay | [31] |
| On the Effect of Consilient Proofs | [37] |
| The abstract reasonings involved in Natural Theology | [83] |
| On the phrase "Design implies a Designer" | [98] |
| Hume on the Analogies of Art and Nature | [101] |
| The Pantheistic consequences charged upon Physical Speculations | [103] |
| The extent and divisions of the Science of Natural Theology | [104] |
| On Teleology | [107] |
| Account of some theories respecting our Personal Identity | [182] |
| Helmholtz, Popular Lectures on Recent Progress of the Theory of Vision | [190] |
| Helmholtz on Specialties of Sensibility | [199] |
| Popular account of Pure Idealism with critical remarks | [204] |
| On the Relations of Fact and Theory | [215] |
| On the "Unknowable" | [217] |
| Mr. J. S. Mill as an Independent Moralist | [223] |
| Archebiosis, or Spontaneous Generation | [226] |
| On Materialism | [237] |
| The Doctrine of Chances applied to the Structural Development of the Eye | [349] |
THE
PHILOSOPHY OF NATURAL THEOLOGY.