Priests and philosophers
Publisher: Joseph Masters
Published: 1873
Place of publication: Liverpool
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS.; title: I. The Aggressiveness of Philosophers. — Mr. Wallace's Plan for abolishing Priests. — Professor Huxley. — His Style of Controversy Objected To. — A Better Proposed 1; title: II. No Sort Of Reason For This Unnatural Jealousy between Philosophers and Divines. — Philosophers most in the wrong. — The Question tested by the number of Eminent Men on either side 18; title: III. An Attempt at estimating the True Value of Science both to Individuals and to Nations, as compared with Religion. — Let both work together 26; title: IV. Philosophers and Philosophers. — Some Good, some Bad, some Indifferent 41; title: V. Extraordinary Proposal to test the Efficacy of Prayer 50; title: VI. A Good Earnest Christian Philosopher wanted. — Dr. Carpenter. — The Evolution Theory 59; title: VII. The same subject continued. — Sir J. Lubbock 75; title: VIII. Anthropomorphism and Pantheism. — Mr. Matthew Arnold 83; title: IX. ThbUsb of Evidences. — Positive and Negative. — Dr. Pusby. — Archbishop Whately. Pere Lacordaire 92; title: X. Sceptics, Ancient and Modern. — Grounds of Belief. — Testimony, Induction, Deduction. — Their respective Value. — Creed of the Sceptic 110; title: XI. Use of the Imagination in Science. — How Monkeys became Men 122; title: XII. The Will of Man. — The Will of God. — How connected with each other 131; title: XIII. Law. — Not correctly so called. — Bather constituted Order upheld by God, and Reversible At Hls Pleasure. — Bishop Van Mildert. — Spinoza 142; title: XIV. The Unknowable and Unthinkable. — God Not Unknown Except To Those Who Will not know Him. — The dreadful Doom of Never Knowing God 153; title: XV. God is Light and Love. — Without God as our Light the Spiritual World would be like the Material World without the Sun 165; title: XVI. God's Providence. — Many things difficult to Understand. — We see only in part, And Trust To God's Wlsdom And Goodness 176; title: XVII. The Supernatural. — Man a proof of God's unbounded Power. — The Omnipresence of God. — Protest against classing Modern Miracles with the Miracles of the Gospel 184; title: XVIII. Personality of the Evil One. — Philosophers Unable To Explain The Matter. — The Bible declares it 193; title: XIX. Revival of Paganism. — The Creed of Epicurus. — Its utter Selfishness and Short-sightedness 204; title: XX. Different Degrees of Wrong-headedness. — The Simple, Scorners, Fools 214; title: XXI. Effects of Atheism. — "A Retrogradation to Savagery" 221; title: XXII. Reserve to be used in Intercourse with Unbelievers. — Odium Theologicum, what is it? 229; title: XXIII. Education as connected with Religion and Science 239; title: XXIV. Language. — The Language of the Bible Popular and Poetical, not Philosophical 249; title: XXV. The Foolishness of Preaching. — Its Difficulty. — Preaching a great Instru- ment for Good notwithstanding the Cavils of the Worldly 257; title: XXVI. Future Retribution. — Most charitable To Declare It Plainly As It Is Declared in the Bible 265; title: XXVII. Unrestrained Inquiry leads to the most Opposite Results. — The Intellectual Powers of Man need Religion for their Development. — The Labourer, the Merchant, the Statesman, the Philosopher 274; title: XXVIII. Progress. — Arts and Science may advance Indefinitely, But Christ's True Religion remains the same always 283; title: XXIX. Conclusion 293; title: Notes 300