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William Rounseville Alger. The Destiny of the Soul
The Destiny of the Soul
Table of Contents
PREFACE TO THE TENTH EDITION
PREFACE
Part First. HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL INTRODUCTORY VIEWS. CHAPTER I. THEORIES OF THE SOUL'S ORIGIN. CHAPTER II. HISTORY OF DEATH. CHAPTER III. GROUNDS OF THE BELIEF IN A FUTURE LIFE. CHAPTER IV. THEORIES OF THE SOUL'S DESTINATION. Part Second. ETHNIC THOUGHTS CONCERNING A FUTURE LIFE. CHAPTER I. BARBARIAN NOTIONS OF A FUTURE LIFE. CHAPTER II. DRUIDIC DOCTRINE OF A FUTURE LIFE. CHAPTER III. SCANDINAVIAN DOCTRINE OF A FUTURE LIFE. CHAPTER IV. ETRUSCAN DOCTRINE OF A FUTURE LIFE. CHAPTER V. EGYPTIAN DOCTRINE OF A FUTURE LIFE. CHAPTER VI. BRAMANIC AND BUDDHIST DOCTRINE OF A FUTURE LIFE. CHAPTER VII. PERSIAN DOCTRINE OF A FUTURE LIFE. CHAPTER VIII. HEBREW DOCTRINE OF A FUTURE LIFE. CHAPTER IX. RABBINICAL DOCTRINE OF A FUTURE LIFE. CHAPTER X. GREEK AND DOCTRINE OF A FUTURE LIFE. CHAPTER XI. MOHAMMEDAN DOCTRINE OF A FUTURE LIFE. CHAPTER XII. EXPLANATORY SURVEY OF THE FIELD AND ITS MYTHS. Part Third. NEW TESTAMENT TEACHINGS CONCERNING A FUTURE LIFE. CHAPTER I. PETER'S DOCTRINE OF A FUTURE LIFE. CHAPTER II. DOCTRINE OF A FUTURE LIFE IN THE EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWS. CHAPTER III. DOCTRINE OF A FUTURE LIFE IN THE APOCALYPSE. CHAPTER IV. PAUL'S DOCTRINE OF A FUTURE LIFE. CHAPTER V. JOHN'S DOCTRINE OF A FUTURE LIFE. CHAPTER VI. CHRIST'S TEACHINGS CONCERNING THE FUTURE LIFE. CHAPTER VII. RESURRECTION OF CHRIST. CHAPTER VIII. ESSENTIAL CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE OF DEATH AND LIFE. Part Fourth. CHRISTIAN THOUGHTS CONCERNING A FUTURE LIFE. CHAPTER I. PATRISTIC DOCTRINE OF A FUTURE LIFE. CHAPTER II. MEDIAVAL DOCTRINE OF A FUTURE LIFE. CHAPTER III. MODERN DOCTRINE OF A FUTURE LIFE. Part Fifth. HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL DISSERTATIONS CONCERNING A FUTURE LIFE. CHAPTER I. DOCTRINE OF A FUTURE LIFE IN THE ANCIENT MYSTERIES. CHAPTER II. METEMPSYCHOIS; OR, TRANSMIGRATION OF SOULS. CHAPTER III. RESURRECTION OF THE FLESH. CHAPTER IV. DOCTRINE OF FUTURE PUNISHMENT; OR, CRITICAL HISTORY OF THE IDEA OF A HELL. CHAPTER V. THE FIVE THEORETIC MODES OF SALVATION. CHAPTER VI. RECOGNITION OF FRIENDS IN A FUTURE LIFE. CHAPTER VII. LOCAL FATE OF MAN IN THE ASTRONOMIC UNIVERSE. CHAPTER VIII. CRITICAL HISTORY OF DISBELIEF IN A FUTURE LIFE. CHAPTER IX. MORALITY OF THE DOCTRINE OF A FUTURE LIFE. Part Sixth. SUPPLEMENTARY CHAPTERS. CHAPTER I. THE END OF THE WORLD. CHAPTER II. THE DAY OF JUDGMENT. CHAPTER III. THE MYTHOLOGICAL HELL AND THE TRUE ONE; OR, THE LAW OF PERDITION. CHAPTER IV. THE GATES OF HEAVEN; OR, THE LAW OF SALVATION IN ALL WORLDS. CHAPTER V. RESUME OF THE SUBJECT: HOW THE QUESTION OF IMMORTALITY NOW STANDS. CHAPTER VI. THE TRANSIENT AND THE PERMANENT IN THE DESTINY OF THE SOUL. PART FIRST. HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL INTRODUCTORY VIEWS. CHAPTER I. THEORIES OF THE SOUL'S ORIGIN
CHAPTER II. HISTORY OF DEATH
CHAPTER III. GROUNDS OF THE BELIEF IN A FUTURE LIFE
CHAPTER IV. THEORIES OF THE SOUL'S DESTINATION
PART SECOND. ETHNIC THOUGHTS CONCERNING A FUTURE LIFE. CHAPTER I. BARBARIAN NOTIONS OF A FUTURE LIFE
CHAPTER II. DRUIDIC DOCTRINE OF A FUTURE LIFE
CHAPTER III. SCANDINAVIAN DOCTRINE OF A FUTURE LIFE
CHAPTER IV. ETRUSCAN DOCTRINE OF A FUTURE LIFE
CHAPTER V. EGYPTIAN DOCTRINE OF A FUTURE LIFE
CHAPTER VI. BRAHMANIC AND BUDDHIST DOCTRINE OF A FUTURE LIFE
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CHAPTER VII. PERSIAN DOCTRINE OF A FUTURE LIFE
CHAPTER VIII. HEBREW DOCTRINE OF A FUTURE LIFE
CHAPTER IX. RABBINICAL DOCTRINE OF A FUTURE LIFE
CHAPTER X. GREEK AND ROMAN DOCTRINE OF A FUTURE LIFE
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CHAPTER XI. MOHAMMEDAN DOCTRINE OF A FUTURE LIFE
CHAPTER XII. EXPLANATORY SURVEY OF THE FIELD AND ITS MYTHS
PART THIRD. NEW TESTAMENT TEACHINGS CONCERNING AFUTURE LIFE. CHAPTER I. PETER'S DOCTRINE OF A FUTURE LIFE
CHAPTER II. DOCTRINE OF A FUTURE LIFE IN THE EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWS
CHAPTER III. DOCTRINE OF A FUTURE LIFE IN THE APOCALYPSE
CHAPTER IV. PAUL'S DOCTRINE OF A FUTURE LIFE
CHAPTER V. JOHN'S DOCTRINE OF A FUTURE LIFE
CHAPTER VII. RESURRECTION OF CHRIST
CHAPTER VIII. ESSENTIAL CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE OF DEATH AND LIFE
PART FOURTH. CHRISTIAN THOUGHTS CONCERNING A FUTURE LIFE. CHAPTER I. PATRISTIC DOCTRINE OF A FUTURE LIFE
CHAPTER II. MEDIAVAL DOCTRINE OF A FUTURE LIFE
CHAPTER III. MODERN DOCTRINE OF A FUTURE LIFE
PART FIFTH. HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL DISSERTATIONS CONCERNING A FUTURE LIFE. CHAPTER I. DOCTRINE OF A FUTURE LIFE IN THE ANCIENT MYSTERIES
CHAPTER II. METEMPSYCHOSIS; OR, TRANSMIGRATION OF SOULS
CHAPTER III. RESURRECTION OF THE FLESH
CHAPTER IV. DOCTRINE OF FUTURE PUNISHMENT; OR, CRITICAL HISTORY OF THE IDEA OF A HELL
CHAPTER V. THE FIVE THEORETIC MODES OF SALVATION
CHAPTER VI. RECOGNITION OF FRIENDS IN A FUTURE LIFE
CHAPTER VII. LOCAL FATE OF MAN IN THE ASTRONOMIC UNIVERSE
CHAPTER VIII. CRITICAL HISTORY OF DISBELIEF IN A FUTURE LIFE
CHAPTER IX
PART SIXTH SUPPLEMENTARY [FIFTEEN YEARS LATER] CHAPTER I. THE END OF THE WORLD
CHAPTER II. THE DAY OF JUDGMENT
CHAPTER III. THE MYTHOLOGICAL HELL AND THE TRUE ONE, OR THE LAW OF PERDITION
CHAPTER IV. THE GATES OF HEAVEN; OR, THE LAW OF SALVATION IN ALL WORLDS
CHAPTER V. RESUME HOW THE QUESTION OF IMMORTALITY NOW STANDS
CHAPTER VI. THE TRANSIENT AND THE PERMANENT IN THE DESTINY OF MAN
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William Rounseville Alger
A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life
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8 Ploucquet, De Origin atque Generatione Anima Humana ex Principiis Monadologicis stabilita.
new born child into the already constructed body which before has only a vegetative life. The Germans call this representation panspermismus, or the dissemination theory. Leibnitz, in his celebrated monadology, carries the same view a great deal further. He conceives the whole created universe, visible and invisible, to consist of monads, which are not particles of matter, but metaphysical points of power. These monads are all souls. They are produced by what he calls fulgurations of God. The distinction between fulguration and emanation is this: in the latter case the procession is historically defined and complete; in the former case it is momentaneous. The monads are radiated from the Divine Will, forth through the creation, by the constant flashes of His volition. All nature is composed of them, and nothing is depopulated and dead. Their naked being is force, and their indestructible predicates are perception, desire, tendency to develop. While they lie dormant, their potential capacities all inwrapped, they constitute what we entitle matter. When, by the rising stir of their inherent longing, they leave their passive state and reach a condition of obscure consciousness, they become animals. Finally, they so far unwind their bonds and evolve their facultative potencies as to attain the rank of rational minds in the grade of humanity. Generation is merely the method by which the aspiring monad lays the organic basis for the grouped building of its body. Man is a living union of monads, one regent monad presiding over the whole organization. That king monad which has attained to full apperception, the free exercise of perfect consciousness, is the immortal human soul. 9 Any labored attempt to refute this ingenious doctrine is needless, since the doctrine itself is but the developed structure of a speculative conception with no valid basis of observed fact. It is a sheer hypothesis, spun out of the self fed bowels of a priori assumption and metaphysic fancy. It solves the problems only by changes of their form, leaving the mysteries as numerous and deep as before. It is a beautiful and sublime piece of latent poetry, the evolution and architecture of which well display the wonderful genius of Leibnitz. It is a more subtle and powerful process of thought than Aristotle's Organon, a more pure and daring work of imagination than Milton's Paradise Lost. But it spurns the tests of experimental science, and is entitled to rank only among the splendid curiosities of philosophy; a brilliant and plausible theorem, not a sober and solid induction.
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