CHAP.

CONTENTS.

I. INTRODUCTORY: MOTIVES OF ESSAY-DIVISION

INTO CHAPTERS-METHOD OF STUDY-CON-

ADDITIONAL NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS

II.-PHILOSOPHY OF DESIGN: HOSTILE CRITICISMS

EXAMINED.

-EXPLANATIONS AND RESTATE-

ADDITIONAL NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS

III.-CONDITIONS OF HUMAN KNOWLEDGE: ITS DIS-

ABILITIES AND FIRST PRINCIPLES-IDEALISM

ADDITIONAL NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS

IV. BELIEFS OF REASON: PRINCIPLE OF INDUCTION

-THEISM-CONFIRMATIONS AND ILLUSTRA-

TIONS

V.-PRODUCTION AND ITS LAW: CONDITIONS OF

ACTIVITY-WILL AND REASON IN CONTRAST

WITH MATERIALISM AND MECHANISM-CREA-

TIVE MIND CHARACTERISED BY VISIBLE PRO-

DUCTS

139-181

182-248

291-348

ADDITIONAL NOTE

VI.-CAUSATION: LIMITS OF PHYSICAL LAW-THE

349

BEGINNING-CAUSE AND WILL-MIRACLES 351-378

VII.- RESPONSIBILITY : RIGHT AND WRONG A

FUTURE STATE-SUPREME WILL AND PER-

SONALITY POSSIBLE RELATIONS OF THE

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LIST OF

ADDITIONAL NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

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The Right Honourable W. E. Gladstone and others on Modern

Scepticism

On Corruption of the Judgment by misdirected Moral Senti-

ments

Special Pleading in History and Morals.

The Method employed throughout this Essay

On the Effect of Consilient Proofs

The abstract reasonings involved in Natural Theology
On the phrase "Design implies a Designer"

19

28

29

31

37

83

98

The extent and divisions of the Science of Natural Theology

On Teleology

On the Unknowable "

Account of some theories respecting our Personal Identity

Helmholtz, Popular Lectures on Recent Progress of the Theory

Popular account of Pure Idealism with critical remarks

On the Relations of Fact and Theory

Mr. J. S. Mill as an Independent Moralist

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182

190

.

Archebiosis, or Spontaneous Generation.

226

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.

CHAPTER I.

INTRODUCTORY.