The Philosophy of Natural Theology / An Essay in confutation of the scepticism of the present day

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.

"Finis vitÆ in primis noscendus est, ut ad eum actiones omnes dirigere valeamus; non minus quÀm naviganti portus ad quem deveniat ante omnia statuendus."

Ficinus in Platonis Philebum, Cap. I.

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