CONTENTS.
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INTRODUCTION, 9
CHAPTER I. MODERN ATHEISM, 15
CHAPTER II. THEORIES OF DEVELOPMENT, 45 SECTION I. THEORY OF COSMICAL DEVELOPMENT,—"THE VESTIGES," 47 SECTION II. THEORY OF PHYSIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT,—"TELLIAMED,"—PHYSIO-PHILOSOPHY, 61 SECTION III. THEORY OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT,—AUGUSTE COMTE, 84 SECTION IV. THEORY OF ECCLESIASTICAL DEVELOPMENT,—J. H. NEWMAN, 116
CHAPTER III. THEORIES OF PANTHEISM, 129 SECTION I. THE SYSTEM OF SPINOZA, 142 SECTION II. MATERIAL PANTHEISM, 161 SECTION III. IDEAL PANTHEISM, 167
CHAPTER IV. THEORIES OF MATERIALISM, 189 SECTION I. DISTINCT FORMS OF MATERIALISM, 192 SECTION II. PROPOSITIONS ON MATERIALISM, 207 SECTION III. RELATIONS OF MATERIALISM TO THEOLOGY, 235
CHAPTER V. THEORY OF GOVERNMENT BY NATURAL LAWS,—VOLNEY,—COMBE, 249 SECTION I. THE DOCTRINE OF NATURAL LAWS AND SECOND CAUSES, 252 SECTION II. THE CONSTITUTION OF MAN IN ITS RELATION TO THE GOVERNMENT OF GOD, 254 SECTION III. THE EFFICACY OF PRAYER, 283
CHAPTER VI. THEORIES OF CHANCE AND FATE, 303
CHAPTER VII. THEORIES OF RELIGIOUS LIBERALISM, 323
CHAPTER VIII. THEORIES OF CERTITUDE AND SKEPTICISM, 333
CHAPTER IX. THEORY OF SECULARISM, 361