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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

EXCURSIONS OF AN EVOLUTIONIST

MYTHS AND MYTH-MAKERS

THE DESTINY OF MAN

THE IDEA OF GOD

Through Nature to God

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