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TRANSCENDENTALISM,

WITH PRELUDES ON CURRENT EVENTS AND A COPIOUS ANALYTICAL INDEX.

CONTENTS.

LECTURES.

I. Instinct, Intuition, &c., as Tests of Truth.
II. Transcendentalism in New England.
III. Theodore Parker's Absolute Religion.
IV. Caricatured Definitions in Religious Science.
V. Theodore Parker on the Guilt of Sin.
VI. Final Permanence of Moral Character.

VII. Can a Perfect Being permit Evil?

VIII. Religion required by the Nature of Things.

IX. Theodore on Communion with God as Personal.

X. The Trinity and Tritheism.

XI. Fragmentariness of Outlook upon the Divine Nature.

PRELUDES.

I. The Children of the Perishing Poor.

II. The Failure of Strauss' Mythical Theory.

III. Dr. Chalmers' Remedies for the Evil of Cities.

IV. Mexicanised Politics.

V. Yale, Harvard, and Boston.

VI. The Right Direction of the Religiously Irresolute.
VII. Religious Conversation.

VIII. George Whitefield in Boston.

IX. Circe's Cup in Cities.

X. Civil Service Reform.

XI. Plymouth Rock as the Corner-stone of a Factory.

ORTHODOXY,

WITH PRELUDES ON CURRENT EVENTS AND A COPIOUS ANALYTICAL INDEX,

CONTENTS.

LECTURES.

I. Is there nothing in God to Fear?

II. The Trinity a Practical Truth.

III. The Trinity the Martyr's Faith.

IV. Theodore Parker's Self-contradictions.

V. The Atonement in the Light of Self-evident Truth.

VI. The Harmonization of the Soul with its Environment.

VII. True and False Optimism.

VIII. Consideration of Mr. Clarke's and Mr. Hale's Criticisms.

IX. Scepticism in New England.

X. Theodore Parker as an Anti-Slavery Reformer.

XI. The Sources of Theodore Parker's Errors.

PRELUDES.

I. The Thin End of the Romish Wedge.

II. Sectarian Division of State Funds.

III. Aggressive Religion in Boston.

IV. Transmutation of Reading into Conduct.

V. The Five Parts of Prayer.

VI. Moderate Drinking and Disreputable Theatres.
VII. The Possible Uses of Conversations Meetings.

VIII. Current Misconceptions of Orthodoxy.
IX. Use and Abuse of Church Membership.
X. Greece since her Liberation from Turkey.
XI. Lessing's Test of the Worth of Sects.

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WITH PRELUDES ON CURRENT EVENTS AND A COPIOUS ANALYTICAL INDEX.

CONTENTS.

LECTURES.

I. Unexplored Remainders in Conscience.

II. Solar Self-Culture.

III. The Physical Tangibleness of the Moral Law.

IV. Mathew Arnold's Views on Conscience.

V. Organic Instincts in Conscience.

VI. The First Cause as Personal.

VII. Is Conscience Infallible?

VIII. Conscience as the Foundation of the Religion of Science.

IX. The Laughter of the Soul at itself.

X. Shakespeare on Conscience.

PRELUDES.

I. Insurrections of Hunger.

II. Bachelor and Family Wages.

III. English Precedents in Civil Service Reform.

IV. The Duties of Opulence to Missions.

V. Enfranchised Ignorance in the South.

VI. Indigent Infidelity.

VII. California as the Door to China.

VIII. Free Tabernacles in Great Towns.

IX. Magdalen in Cities.

X. Young Men in Politics.

HEREDITY,

WITH PRELUDES ON CURRENT EVENTS AND A COPIOUS ANALYTICAL INDEX.

CONTENTS.

LECTURES.

I. Hereditary Descent in Ancient Greece.

II. Maudsley on Hereditary Descent.

III. Necessary Beliefs Inherent in the Plan of the Soul.

IV. Darwin's Theory of Pangenesis.

V. Darwin on the Origin of Conscience.

VI. What causes Unlikeness in Organisms?

VII. Lotz on the Union of Soul and Body.

VIII. The Twofold Identity of Parent and Offspring.
IX. Seven Principal Laws of Heredity.
X. Descent of Bad Traits and Good.

PRELUDES.

I. Schools for the American Indian.
II. The Future of American Poetry.

HI. The American-Anglican Alliance.

IV. Is Death Disembodiment?

V. Schöberlein on Immortality.

VI. Financial Heresies in the United States.

VII. Agricultural Colonization of the Unemployed.

VIII. Scepticism in Colleges.

IX. The Elberfield Plan of Poor Relief.

X. The Lesser and the Greater Eastern Question.

IN THE PRESS, AND READY SHORTLY,
THE VOLUME ON "MARRIAGE."

BIOLOGY,

WITH PRELUDES ON CURRENT EVENTS.

BY

JOSEPH COOK.

WITH A COPIOUS ANALYTICAL INDEX.

"Wie ausnahmslos universell die Ausdehnung, und zugleich WCNTHECA

untergeordnet die Bedeutung der Sendung ist welche de Mechanismu
in dem Baue der Welt zu erfullen hat."-HERMANN LOTZE

AUC 1879