Mysteries of Life, Death, and Futurity. 



GENERAL CONTENTS. 



"What is Life? 

 The Author of our Being. 

 The Divine Eternity. 

 The Divine Perfections. 



Change-bearing Laws in Nature. 



The Mosaic and Geologic Creation. 



Origin of Life — Darwin's Theory. 



Unity of the Human Race. 



The Embryo under the Microscope. 



The Development Theory — Chemistry 

 cannot create an Organism. 



Man and his Dwelling-place. 



Plurality of Worlds. 



Vital Principle of Animals and Vege- 

 tables. 



Chain of Being. 



The Kingdoms of Nature. 



Numbers in Nature. 



Adaptation of Colour to the Wants of 

 the Animal. 



The Tree of Life. 



Eve's Apple-tree. 



How Cain Killed Abel. 



Family Likenesses. 



Average of Human Life. 



Space and Time. 



Climacterics. 



Curious Statistical Results. 



Life Assurance. 



Sir W. Hamilton on Phrenology. 



Consumption and Longevity. 



Man's Proper Place in Creation. 



Nature op the Soul. 

 On the Soul, by the Ancients. 

 The Imprisoned Soul. 

 The Soul and the Magnetic Needle. 

 Symbols of the Soul. 

 Personality of God. 

 Pre-oxistence of Souls. 

 Transmigration of Souls. 



Spiritual l.n i 

 Spiritual Reclamation. 

 " Bxi -clsiiir." 

 V>l iona (jf Angela. 

 Spiritual Nut ore 

 Perm&nenl [mprei iona by Spiritual 



Powen. 

 Matarialiam and spiritualism. 



IVrwoiml Identity. 



Mesmerism and Domnambnlinn. 

 i lairroj aooe, 



M in a ' > iterations. 



Mind ami Body. 



M .Hi .1 1 Prooa »t . of » Uoh - 



t rnoonaoioat. 

 TheYolteioBatteryand EBeotxic tight. 



lii.'iN ..I Man. 

 A Galvanised Human Bod] • 

 Changea in tin' Nervous Bystem, 

 \\ ornna of the Brain. 

 '\ hut i - Memory ? 



How does the Function of Memory 



take place ? 

 Persistence of Impressions. 

 Value of Memory — Registration. 

 Decay of Memory. 

 Intuitions of the Mind. 

 What is Genius ? 

 Mental Abstraction. 

 Effect of Emotion on the Intellect. 

 Melancholy or Poetic Feeling. 

 flay Melancholy. 

 Insane Impulses. 



Keep the Brain fallow in Childhood. 

 Perverted Reason. 

 What is Madness ? 

 Intellectuality and Insanity. 

 HowtheEgyptianstreatedtheir Insane. 

 Operations of Mind. 

 Discipline of the Intellect. 

 The Child Father to the Man. 

 Life not greater than its Reflex. 



Bblibf and Scepticism. 

 What is Faith ? 

 What is Revelation ? 

 Childish Desires. 

 Weak Belief. 

 Real Growth. 

 Experience Fallible. 

 Intolerance and Unbelief. 

 II ..\ Men become Sceptics. 

 Infidelity Irrational. 

 Confessions of Sceptics. 

 Materialism of the Development 



Theory. 

 Combustion— the Metempsychosis. 



What is Superstition ? 

 "To Die Childless." 



" Th'rt.'cn to Dinner." 

 What is Qhaooef 



Premature Interment. 

 Several curious Case-- of^Eranoe. 



Phenomena of Death. 

 Hours Fatal to Life. 

 Premonitiona .•!' Death. 

 Death of Lord Lyttelton. 

 I), \itli of Ajrohhishop Leighton. 

 Old Age and Death. 



Death at \\ ill. 



Bleep and Death, 

 Doea the Bonl Bleep F 



at the Point 



..i Death. 



Belnotanoa to Think "t'God. 

 stat.- ■>!' Mmi preceding Death. 

 HOD Man Diet. 

 Death bom Heart l H 

 Broken Hot i 



The Death-bed, bj Own Feltham. 

 Death-bed Repentance, 

 Last Moments and Words of Dis- 



tingniahed Pi 



