Temperamental Optimism and Pessimism, [33]. How reconcile with life one bent on suicide? [38]. Religious melancholy and its cure, [39]. Decay of Natural Theology, [43]. Instinctive antidotes to pessimism, [46]. Religion involves belief in an unseen extension of the world, [51]. Scientific positivism, [52]. Doubt actuates conduct as much as belief does, [54]. To deny certain faiths is logically absurd, for they make their objects true, [56]. Conclusion, [6l].
THE SENTIMENT OF RATIONALITY [63]
Rationality means fluent thinking, [63]. Simplification, [65]. Clearness, [66]. Their antagonism, [66]. Inadequacy of the abstract, [68]. The thought of nonentity, [71]. Mysticism, [74]. Pure theory cannot banish wonder, [75]. The passage to practice may restore the feeling of rationality, [75]. Familiarity and expectancy, [76]. 'Substance,' [80]. A rational world must appear congruous with our powers, [82]. But these differ from man to man, [88]. Faith is one of them, [90]. Inseparable from doubt, [95]. May verify itself, [96]. Its rôle in ethics, [98]. Optimism and pessimism, [101]. Is this a moral universe?—what does the problem mean? [103]. Anaesthesia versus energy, [107]. Active assumption necessary, [107]. Conclusion, [110].
REFLEX ACTION AND THEISM [111]
Prestige of Physiology, [112]. Plan of neural action, [113]. God the mind's adequate object, [116]. Contrast between world as perceived and as conceived, [118]. God, [120]. The mind's three departments, [123]. Science due to a subjective demand, [129]. Theism a mean between two extremes, [134]. Gnosticism, [137]. No intellection except for practical ends, [140]. Conclusion, [142].
THE DILEMMA OF DETERMINISM [145]
Philosophies seek a rational world, [146]. Determinism and Indeterminism defined, [149]. Both are postulates of rationality, [152]. Objections to chance considered, [153]. Determinism involves pessimism, [159]. Escape via Subjectivism, [164]. Subjectivism leads to corruption, [170]. A world with chance in it is morally the less irrational alternative, [176]. Chance not incompatible with an ultimate Providence, [180].
THE MORAL PHILOSOPHER AND THE MORAL LIFE [184]
The moral philosopher postulates a unified system, [185]. Origin of moral judgments, [185]. Goods and ills are created by judgment?, [189]. Obligations are created by demands, [192]. The conflict of ideals, [198]. Its solution, [205]. Impossibility of an abstract system of Ethics, [208]. The easy-going and the strenuous mood, [211]. Connection between Ethics and Religion, [212].