CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER VIII. 



NATURE AND MAX. 



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Nature more than it appears to us Value of the Doctrine- 

 Necessary opposition, for a time, of Science to our moral 

 Emotions The resulting Harmony Fruits of the Study 

 of the Conditions of our Knowledge Knowledge respect- 

 ing Man gained through the Study of Nature If Nature 

 is Living, why is it perceived as Dead ? A Deadness in 

 Man Results involved in the idea Attractiveness of them 

 Confirmation by the Utterances of Man, and of Scripture 

 The Life of Nature reaffirmed through Science The 

 Spiritual Life The Future 



CHAPTER IX. 

 THE PHENOMENAL AND THE TRUE. 



Study of the Physical and of the Spiritual, not to be sepa- 

 rated Meaning of the Proposition that we only know 

 Phenomena Feeling things to exist which do not exist 

 Elustrations The " Practical " not necessarily the True 

 Further Illustrations The false Feeling that might arise 

 from Absence of the Sense of Touch Correction of it by 

 the perfecting of the Faculties Similar Effect in Dream- 

 ing, and from similar Cause A Faculty that belongs to 

 our perfect Nature, wanting or imperfectly in action The 

 Deadness in Man thus exhibited from another side, and 

 Light cast upon his Life Guidance in our Thought of 

 Nature Simplification of all Questions .... 



CHAPTER X. 

 FORCE. 



The Physical World, like a Book, to be interpreted by our 

 Moral Powers Force Source of the Idea Is due to our 

 own Nature Is not in the World around Difficulty of 

 conceding this Arises from the false Feeling of Existence 

 Presents Objects as at once without Action, and yet 

 Acting The Difficulty removed Force not varying in 

 Amount Its Exhibition, therefore, always Twofold 



