Through Nature to God. Fiske John

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       John Fiske

      Through Nature to God

      Published by Good Press, 2021

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      EAN 4064066207502

Table of Contents

       PREFACE

       THE MYSTERY OF EVIL

       I The Serpent's Promise to the Woman

       II The Pilgrim's Burden

       III Manichæism and Calvinism

       IV The Dramatic Unity of Nature

       V What Conscious Life is made of

       VI Without the Element of Antagonism there could be no Consciousness, and therefore no World

       VII A Word of Caution

       VIII The Hermit and the Angel

       IX Man's Rise from the Innocence of Brutehood

       X The Relativity of Evil

       THE COSMIC ROOTS OF LOVE AND SELF-SACRIFICE

       I The Summer Field, and what it tells us

       II Seeming Wastefulness of the Cosmic Process

       III Caliban's Philosophy

       IV Can it be that the Cosmic Process has no Relation to Moral Ends?

       V First Stages in the Genesis of Man

       VI The Central Fact in the Genesis of Man

       VII The Chief Cause of Man's lengthened Infancy

       VIII Some of its Effects

       IX Origin of Moral Ideas and Sentiments

       X The Cosmic Process exists purely for the Sake of Moral Ends

       XI Maternity and the Evolution of Altruism

       XII The Omnipresent Ethical Trend

       THE EVERLASTING REALITY OF RELIGION

       I " Deo erexit Voltaire "

       II The Reign of Law, and the Greek Idea of God

       III Weakness of Materialism

       IV Religion's First Postulate: the Quasi-Human God

       V Religions Second Postulate: the undying Human Soul

       VI Religions Third Postulate: the Ethical Significance of the Unseen World

       VII Is the Substance of Religion a Phantom, or an Eternal Reality?

       VIII The Fundamental Aspect of Life

       IX How the Evolution of Senses expands the World

       X Nature's Eternal Lesson is the Everlasting Reality of Religion

       L'ENVOI

       THE WRITINGS OF JOHN FISKE

       THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA

       OLD VIRGINIA AND HER NEIGHBOURS

       THE BEGINNINGS OF NEW ENGLAND

       THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

       THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE

       THE CRITICAL PERIOD OF AMERICAN HISTORY, 1783-1789

       A HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES FOR SCHOOLS

       CIVIL GOVERNMENT IN THE UNITED STATES

       OUTLINES OF COSMIC PHILOSOPHY

       DARWINISM, AND OTHER ESSAYS

       THE UNSEEN WORLD