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Modern Atheism Under Its Forms Of Pantheism Materialism Secular

A Treatise on the Being and Perfections of God, as the Creator and Governor of the world, can scarcely be adapted to the exigencies of modern society, unless it be framed with express reference to the existing forms of unbelief, and the prevailing tendencies both of philosophi...

Chapters

1. Chapter 1

2. Chapter 2

3. Chapter 3

4. Chapter 4

5. Chapter 5

A Treatise on the Being and Perfections of God, as the Creator and Governor of the world, can scarcely be adapted to the exigencies of modern society, unless it be framed with e...

6. Chapter 6

Before entering on a detailed discussion of the theories to which it appeals, it may be useful to offer some general reflections on ATHEISM itself, its generic nature and specif...

7. Chapter 7

There have been various applications of the general principle of Development, by means of which an attempt has been made to explain the origin of all things by Natural Laws, so...

8. Chapter 8

At the commencement of the present century, Pantheism might have been justly regarded and safely treated as an obsolete and exploded error,--an error which still prevailed, inde...

9. Chapter 9

The doctrine of Materialism stands equally related to the "mechanical" form of Atheism, and to the "hylozoic" form of Pantheism. It is subsumed in both, and is the fundamental p...

10. Chapter 10

The theory of "natural laws" has been applied to disprove or supersede the doctrine of Creation, by means of the principle of Development. It has been further applied to _the go...

11. Chapter 11

When we survey the actual course of God's Providence, by which the eternal purposes of the Divine Mind are carried into effect, we discern immediately a marked difference betwee...

12. Chapter 12

The Eclectic method of Philosophy, which was first exemplified in the celebrated School of Alexandria, and which has been recently revived under the auspices of M. Cousin in the...

13. Chapter 13

We formerly adverted to the distinction between Dogmatic and Skeptical Atheism; and, believing that the _latter_ is the form in which it is most prevalent, as well as most insid...

14. Chapter 14

Such is the new name under which Atheism has recently appeared among not a few of the tradesmen and artisans of the metropolis and provincial towns of Great Britain. In literatu...

15. Chapter 15