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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905. Excerpt: ... INDEX r A Absentee-God, 90, 91 Absurdities, conception of, 33, 34 Act of God, the, 94 Action, at a distance, 89-93, 240-248 infinite action impossible, 39-44,47,127, 156 Anthropomorphism, 74 Appendix, 331 Astronomy, teaches decline of natural evil, 153, 155 B Berkeley, Bishop, 53, 74 C Carlyle, bon-mot on Absentee-God, 90 Cause, first, 15, 16, 47 eternal, 16 Causes, secondary, 107 Christianity, menaced by Idealism, 316-328 world's need of, 326 Clerke, Miss A. M., 87, 202, 203, 311 Color of sky, significance of, 167, 171, 172, 174, 177-187, 191-200, 263, 264, 268, 269 theories as to source of, 177, 179, 183, 184, 191--200 Comets' tails, 255-259 Common-sense, 49-57 definition, 51, 52 not a philosophy, 50, 51 its use in philosophy, 51 Comprehension, impossible as to self-evident truth, 78-81 Comstock, Geo. C, 226, 272, 282, 310, 312, 314 Crookes, Wm., 22 "Cyclone Smith," story, 109-118 Density, in line of vision, 197, 198 star density, 206, 207, 262, 265-268 Destiny, is infinite, 15 E Earthquakes, number killed by, 136 Emerson, R. W., 74 Energy, mental, 60 active, exists only in the finite, 59-64 Eternal realities, 107, 133 Ether, theory, remarks by: Sloane, 222--225 Comstock, 226, 227 Humboldt, 229-231 Irving, 231, 232 Spencer and Fiske, 237--239 Renouvier, 240--244 the author's suggestions, 217--219, 232-235. 244-248 Ethics and Nature, 119-132 Evil, natural, idea that it is due to spiritual causes, 94--106 God, the enemy of evil, 98, 123-127, 143, I47-IS7 Fiske's argument that God created evil, 100-108 God not the author of evil, 96-108, 150--162 decline of, shown by science and history, 144-149, 152, 153 moral, decline of, 142, 147, 148 changing standard of, 142 Idealistic theory of, founded on conjecture, 13S, 14o Evolution, the Divine method, 16 human i...
