The Mystery of Evil |
I. | The Serpent's Promise to the Woman | 3 |
II. | The Pilgrim's Burden | 8 |
III. | ManichÆism and Calvinism | 14 |
IV. | The Dramatic Unity of Nature | 22 |
V. | What Conscious Life is made of | 27 |
VI. | Without the Element of Antagonism there could be no Consciousness, and therefore no World | 34 |
VII. | A Word of Caution | 40 |
VIII. | The Hermit and the Angel | 43 |
IX. | Man's Rise from the Innocence of Brutehood | 48 |
X. | The Relativity of Evil | 54 |
The Cosmic Roots of Love and Self-Sacrifice |
I. | The Summer Field, and what it tells us | 59 |
II. | Seeming Wastefulness of the Cosmic Process | 65 |
III. | Caliban's Philosophy | 72 |
IV. | Can it be that the Cosmic Process has no Relation to Moral Ends? | 74 |
V. | First Stages in the Genesis of Man | 80 |
VI. | The Central Fact in the Genesis of Man | 86 |
VII. | The Chief Cause of Man's lengthened Infancy | 88 |
VIII. | Some of its Effects | 96 |
IX. | Origin of Moral Ideas and Sentiments | 102 |
X. | The Cosmic Process exists purely for the Sake of Moral Ends | 109 |
XI. | Maternity and the Evolution of Altruism | 117 |
XII. | The Omnipresent Ethical Trend | 127 |
The Everlasting Reality of Religion |
I. | Deo erexit Voltaire | 133 |
II. | The Reign of Law, and the Greek Idea of God | 147 |
III. | Weakness of Materialism | 152 |
IV. | Religion's First Postulate: the Quasi-Human God | 163 |
V. | Religion's Second Postulate: the undying Human Soul | 168 |
VI. | Religion's Third Postulate: the Ethical Significance of the Unseen World | 171 |
VII. | Is the Substance of Religion a Phantom, or an Eternal Reality? | 174 |
VIII. | The Fundamental Aspect of Life | 177 |
IX. | How the Evolution of Senses expands the World | 182 |
X. | Nature's Eternal Lesson is the Everlasting Reality of Religion | 186 |