Is Life Worth Living?

Before beginning to analyse the forces that are decomposing religious belief, it will be well to remark briefly on the means by which these forces are applied to the world at la...

'_The scandal of the pious Christian, and the fallacious triumph of the infidel, should cease as soon as they recollect not only_ by whom, _but likewise to whom, the Divine Reve...

What I am about to deal with in this book is a question which may well strike many, at first sight, as a question that has no serious meaning, or none at any rate for the sane a...

I will again re-state, in other words than my own, the theory we are now going to test by the actual facts of life. '_The assertion_,' says Professor Huxley, '_that morality is...

What we have now before us is a certain subtraction sum. We have to take from life one of its strongest present elements; and see as well as we can what will then be the remaind...

Society, says Professor Clifford, is the highest of all organisms;[9] and its organic nature, he tells us, is one of those great facts which our own generation has been the firs...

The prospects I have been just describing as the goal of positive progress will seem, no doubt, to many to be quite impossible in its cheerlessness. If the future glory of our r...

What I have been urging in the last chapter is really nothing more than the positivists admit themselves. It will be found, if we study their utterances as a whole, that they by...

General and indefinite as the foregoing considerations have been, they are quite definite enough to be of the utmost practical import. They are definite enough to show the utter...

And now we come to the last objections left us, of those which modern thought has arrayed against the Christian Revelation; and these to many minds are the most conclusive and o...

Arguments are like the seed, or like the soul, as Paul conceived of it, which he compared to seed. They are not quickened unless they die. As long as they remain for us in the f...

If we look calmly at the possible future of human thought, it will appear from what we have just seen, that physical science of itself can do little to control or cramp it; nor...

Having thus seen broadly what is meant by that claim for life that we are about to analyse, we must now examine it more minutely, as made by the positive school themselves.

What they really mean is, 1st. That the connection of consciousness with matter is a mystery; as to _that_ they _can_ give no answer. 2nd. That as to whether consciousness is wh...

In this book the words '_positive_,' '_positivist_,' and '_positivism_' are of constant occurrence as applied to modern thought and thinkers. To avoid any chance of confusion or...

It seems to be so; but it is no more so than is morality with itself. Two difficulties common to both:--1st. The existence of evil; 2nd. Man's free will and God's free will 248